Zinovy Gerdt
| Zinovy Gerdt | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Zalman Efraimovich Khrapinovich 21 September 1916  Sebezh, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died |
18 November 1996 (aged 80) Russia |
Zinovy Efimovich Gerdt (Russian: Зиновий Ефимович Гердт; 21 September 1916, Sebezh, Russian Empire – 18 November 1996) was a Soviet/Russian theatre and cinema actor, recognized with the title People's Artist of the USSR.
Biography
At 15, Gerdt graduated from a vocational school affiliated with the Valerian Kuybyshev Electrical Plant. He started working on Metrostroy as a metalworker-electrician. As a hobby, he was an actor the factory's "TRAM" club. In 1937 he began acting at the Puppet Theatre of Moscow House of Pioneers.
Gerdt volunteered to the front when Second World War began. He was enlisted as a senior lieutenant of a field engineering division and suffered a serious leg wound near Belgorod in February 1943.
In 1945 - 1982 worked at the Obraztsov Central Puppet Theatre in Moscow.
In cinematography, he was primarily a voice actor/narrator and was behind the scenes for a long time.
From 1983 onward, Gerdt worked as an actor at Ermolova Theatre.
A sculpture picturing Panikovsky, a character of The Little Golden Calf, as played by Gerdt, stands in Kiev.
Gerdt's third wife Tatiana Pravdina has condemned the "Knight of Conscience" book about Gerdt (published in 2010, by Zebra E, AST) as a composition of unduly attributed and inaccurate texts.[1]
Honours and awards
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.
- Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1959)
- People's Artist of RSFSR (1969)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1990)
- Award "Kinotavr" in nomination "The Prize of the Presidential Council for the creative career" (1996)
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd class (1996)
Filmography
- 1960 - Vingt Mille Lieues sur la Terre
- 1962 - The Story of a Crime as narrator (voice)
- 1962 - Nine Days in One Year as narrator (voice)
- 1968 - The Little Golden Calf as "Mikhail Panikovsky"
- 1971 - Dauria as "Tsarist General Semenov"
- 1972 - Taming of the Fire
- 1979 - The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
- 1980 - Adventures of Captain Vrungel as "Captain Christopher Bonifatievich Vrungel"
- 1983 - Mary Poppins, Goodbye as "Admiral Boom"
- 1989 - Intergirl as "Boris Semyonovich"
- 1985 - The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit as Professor (John R. R. Tolkien).
- 1993 - Me Ivan, You Abraham as Zalman
- 1994 - Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin as "Moisei Stalin"
References
- ↑ "Чистое имя выгодный товар - Культура - Новая Газета" [Wholesome name is a profitable good]. Novaya Gazeta (in Russian) (Moscow). 28 October 2011. p. 17. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
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