Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy (23 July 1946 — 2 December 1995) was a Soviet actor and film director. His best known roles are in films such as Stalker, At Home Among Strangers, and The Bodyguard.
Prior to pursuing an acting career, Kaydanovskiy attended technical college where he trained to become a welder. In 1965 he started studying acting at The Rostov Theatre School and the Shchukin theatrical school in Moscow. Before completing the course he took his first part in the film The Mysterious Wall and upon graduation in 1969, he worked as stage actor, making his debut at the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1969. In 1971, he was invited to join the prestigious Moscow Arts Theatre, a rare privilege for a 25-year-old graduate.
He made his major film debut in At Home Among Strangers, and over the next few years appeared in some two dozen films, including the satirical comedy Diamonds for Dictatorship of the Proletariat and The Life of Beethoven. At his peak in the '70s Kaidanovsky was among the USSR’s most popular actors, and it was at this point that famed Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, impressed by the looks and the acting technique of Kaidanovsky in Diamonds, invited him to play the title role in his new film, Stalker. The role earned Kaydanovskiy international acclaim.
In 1985 he directed A Simple Death, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. In 1993 he directed Just Death, which was about the death of Leo Tolstoy.
Known for
To Remember
Himself - archiveFootage
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
Борис Миркин - скупщик золота
Stalker
Stalker
Golden River
бывший царский офицер Кирилл Зимин
First Love
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Поручик Лемке
The Fifteenth Spring
Messenger
The Pass
Narrator (voice)
The Lost Expedition
Кирилл Петрович Зимин (бывший царский офицер)
Under the Roofs of Montmartre
Ten Little Indians
Филипп Ломбард
Two Tickets to India
Anna Karenina
Jules Landeau
A Quiet Day at the End of the War
Sergeant
A Nest of Gentry
New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Sir Lancelot
Hound of the Baskervilles
Джэк Стэплтон
The Turning Point
doctor
The Gambler
The Mysterious Wall
The Importance of Being Earnest
Джон Уортинг
Fiery Bridge
The Bodyguard
Mirzo
Who Will go to Truskavets?
Failure of Engineer Garin
Вольф
Pilot Pirx's Inquest
Nowak
The Life of Beethoven
The Arrival of a Train
Kafedra
Valentin Orlov
Rafferty
Эймс
Vanyushin's Kids
Костя
The Devil's Breath
Damian
Drama on the Hunt
Граф Карнеев
And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning
My Calling
Contract
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Vorontsov
Magic Hunter
Maxim
And I'm With You Again...
Story of an Unknown Man
The Theater Is My House
А. Н. Островский
The Rescuer
Николай Вараксин
Going My Way
Secrets Shared with a Stranger
Kriouchoff
That Was in Kokand
поручик Зайченко
The Return
Tear of the Prince of Darkness
The Fourth
Parajanov: The Last Spring
Himself, Tarkovsky's actor
Forward March, Time!
Reading poem (voice)
Fact
Stanislav
The Mathematician and the Devil
Черт
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Narrator (voice)
I'm Sorry
Pranas