Anatoly Kuznetsov (actor)

Anatoly Kuznetsov (actor)
Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov (31 December 1930 – 7 March 2014) was a Soviet and Russian actor, best known for his role of the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov in White Sun of the Desert (1970). His cousin Mikhail was also an actor. Anatoly Kuznestov was named as People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1979. He lived and worked in Moscow.
Biography
Kuznetsov was born and grew up in Moscow, in the family of Russian singer Boris Kuznetsov. He studied music at the Ippolitov-Ivanov Music School, but later went into acting and graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School in 1955. Since 1958 he worked at the Moscow Film Actor Theater. He broke into films playing one of the main characters in Dangers Trails with Druzhnikov while been a student.
Death
He committed suicide on 7 March 2014 at the age of 83.
Selected filmography
Dangerous Paths (1955) as Nikolay Zholudev
Guest from Kuban (1956) as Nikolay Vorobtsov
Behind Show Windows (1956) as Lieutenant Malyutkin
Journey to Youth (1957) as Petrov
Mine Eight Case (1958) as Batanin
To the Black Sea (1958) as Nikolay Kukushkin
On the Roads of War (1959) as Sushkov
Furtuna (1959) as Major Andreev
Tale of the Newlyweds (1960) as Vladimir Solodukhin
Wait for Letters (1960) as Leonid
My Friend, Kolka! (1961) as Rudenko
How I Was Independent (1963) as Lyosha's father
Morning Trains (1963) as Pavel
Planes Didn't Land (1964, voice)
Give Me a Book of Complaints (1965) as Ivan Kondakov
Conscience (1966) as Martyanov
Song Wings (1967) as Musa (voice)
Woman's World (1967) as Jean Petrichenkov
Spring on the Oder (1968) as Lubentsov
Encounters at Dawn (1969) as Sergei Sergeevich Volkov
On the Way to Lenin (1969) as Secretary of the District Committee
White Sun of the Desert (1970) as Fyodor Sukhov
Meine Stunde Null (1970) as Oberleutnant Gornin
Otkradnatiyat vlak (1971) as General Pyotr Petrovich
Liberation (1971, part 4) as Georgy Zakharov
Hot Snow (1972) as Vesnin
Kato pesen (1973) as Russian officer
Life on Sinful Earth (1973) as Pavel Demidov
И на Тихом океане... (1974) as Ilya Gerasimovich Peklevanov
Okovani soferi (1975) as Sergeyev
Bratushka (1976) as Ales Ivanovich Kazanok
Live Your Way (1976) as Vasily Balyshev
Jeden stribrny (1976) as Laco Tatar
Po sekretu vsemu svetu (1976) as the hitcher with raspberries
Incognito from St. Petersburg (1978) as Lyapkin-Tyapkin
In the Zone of Special Attention (1978) as Mayor Morozhkyn
Right of First Signature (1978) as Sergey Andreyevich Savelyev
Last Chance (1978) as Kirill Dmitrievich
Native Business (1979) as Grachyov
Second Spring (1980) as Nesterov
Hordubal (1980) as Juraj Hordubal
Hit Back (1981) as Morozhkyn
Incident at Map Grid 36-80''' (1982) as General Pavlov
Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, Usual and Incredible (1983) as cameo
Lucky Streak (1983) as deputy director of the institute
The Comet (1984) as Kuchkin
Sand-Glass (1984) as Stepan Grebentsov
Copper Angel (1984) as engineer Kurmayev
Reporting from the Line of Fire (1985) as member of the military council
Liberty Is on the Opposite Bank (1985) as Smirnov
Five Minutes of Fear (1985) as Kornilov
Battle of Moscow (1985) as officer (uncredited)
Misty Shores (1986) as Colonel Egoriev
Was Not Was (1986) as Yuriy
Without Sun (1987) as Mikhail Ivanovich Kostylev
Jackals (1990) as deputy
Nipple System (1990) as Lazar Fomich Bambook
Russian Roulette (1990) as Fedor Andreevich
Flying Dutchman (1990) as Matvey Fomich
Dinosaurs of 20th Century (1990) as Colonel Kryuchkov
Genius (1992) as Valentin Smirnov, Nastya's father
Tractor Drivers 2 (1992) as farm director, Maryana's father
Istanbul Transit (1993) as Nikolai Yevgenievich
Asleep Passenger (1994) as Aleksandr Ivanovich Smirnov
Shirli-Myrli (1995) as father
Za co? (1996) as Ivan Gavrilovich
Paradise Apple (1998) as Igor Igorevich
Hot Saturday (2002) as Boris Semyonovich
Black Mark (2003) as Heydar Aliev (voice)
Turkish Gambit (2005) as Ivan Ganetsky
Nobody Knows About Sex (2006) as Yegor's grandfather
Victory Day (2007) as Andrei Nikolenko
References
External links
Anatoly Kuznetsov at peoples.ru
Anatoly Kuznetsov at kino-teatr.ru
1930 births
2014 deaths
20th-century Russian male actors
21st-century Russian male actors
Male actors from Moscow
Moscow Art Theatre School alumni
Honored Artists of the RSFSR
People's Artists of the RSFSR
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates
United Russia politicians
Russian male film actors
Russian male stage actors
Soviet male film actors
Soviet male stage actors
Suicides by poison
Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery