Alexander Schirvindt

Alexander Schirvindt
Born Alexander Anatolyevich Shirvindt
(1934-07-19) July 19, 1934
Moscow, Russia, USSR
Occupation Actor, director
Years active 1956–present
Awards People's Artist of Russia
Meritorious Artist of Russia
Alexander Schirvindt's voice
recorded September 2004

Alexander Anatolyevich Shirvindt (Russian: Александр Анатольевич Ширвиндт, born July 19, 1934) is a Soviet and Russian screen and stage actor, screenwriter, voice actor, People's Artist and Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR. Awarded with Order of Merit for the Fatherland,[1] Order of Friendship of Peoples. Since 2000 he has been a theater director of Moscow Theater of Satire.

Biography

Alexander Shirvindt was born in Moscow in a family of a violinist and music teacher Anatoly Gustavovich Shirvindt (1896–1962) and Raisa Samoilovna Shirvindt (1898–1985) of Moscow Philharmonic Society. In 1956 he graduated from Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. The same year Shirvindt made his cinema debut in Ona vas lyubit! (1956). Grandfather, Gustav (Gedaliah) Moiseevich Shirvindt (a graduate of Vilnius 1st Gymnasium in 1881), was a doctor.[2][3][4]

Shirvindt appeared in more than 40 films, including Grandads-Robbers (1971), The Irony of Fate (1975), The Twelve Chairs (1976), Three Men in a Boat, To Say Nothing of the Dog (1979), Station for Two (1982), The Irony of Fate 2 (2007). He voiced Aramis in Dog in Boots film.[5]

Filmography

actor
voice

Honours and awards

References

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