Alexander Kotov

**Alexander Evgenievich Kotov** (August 26, 1949, Kaliningrad - July 2, 2016, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian theater, film and sound actor.

## Biography

Was born on August 26, 1949 in Kaliningrad. Parents - Evgeny Ivanovich Kotov (1918-1950), graduated from a mill college, did not see his son; and Antonina Petrovna Kotova, nee Parfyonova (1918-2008), graduated from the Ivanovo Agricultural College.

As a child, Alexander Kotov dreamed of becoming a doctor. He decided to become an actor in the ninth grade, under the influence of the head of the school theater group Rosalia Bogdanovna Stepanyan.

In 1971 he received a diploma with honors from the Shchukin Moscow Theater School, specializing in drama and film actor. The artistic director of the course is Yuri Vasilievich Katin-Yartsev. A fellow student of famous Russian artists: Y. Bogatyrev, N. Gundareva, K. Raikin, N. Varley.

From 1971 to 1998 - an actor at the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya. For 27 years of work in the theater he played many roles: Kostik in "The Pokrovskie Gates" staged by Mikhail Kozakov, productions by L. Durov based on plays by N. Simon and N. Dumbadze; A. Dunaev after Ostrovsky and Gorky; with Anatoly Efros in "Brother Alyosha" by Viktor Rozov; “The Revision's Tale” based on “Dead Souls”, in the second production of “Three Sisters”, the play “Summer and Smoke” by Tennessee Williams; productions by A. Yashin and E. Lazarev; V. Portnova (Mother of Jesus, Moscow - Petushki, Walpurgis Night); A. Zhenovach after N. V. Gogol and I. S. Turgenev.

He starred in the film "The Kreutzer Sonata" directed by Mikhail Schweitzer, played the role of a private detective in the sitcom "Strawberry". In the movie "Temptation B." played the role of a doctor.

In 1993-2000 he worked at the Et cetera theater, played in the performances "A Guide for Those Who Want to Get Married" based on A. P. Chekhov by V. Salyuk and "Camembert ..." by Alexander Kalyagin. In 1998, he left the theater on Malaya Bronnaya, thus resolving a long-term conflict with its then administration.

After leaving the theater, he was engaged in dubbing films, TV series and computer games. He started in the dubbing department of NTV-Plus, then began to dub at the Mosfilm studio. He took part in the dubbing of Soviet cartoons of the late 1940s (re-dubbed in 2000-2001), dubbed BBC documentaries, including Michael Wood's documentaries Troy (1985) and Alexander the Great (1997), and on the channel "24 Techno". The heroes of the TV series of the "Real Funny Television" (NST) channel also spoke in his voice. He voiced the main characters in the quests "Post Mortem" and "The Moment of Silence", Warren Vidick in the Assassin's Creed series of games.

Collaborated with the studio "Inis", often voiced in pairs by Irina Malikova, Lyudmila Ilyina. Was the "voice" of radio Humor FM for 5 years until August 2011; voiced headings screensavers, announcements and other interprogramming component.

Died on July 2, 2016 in Moscow at the age of 67 after a long illness.

## Involvement in *Duluth*

In the Russian dub of *Duluth*, he voiced H. Lee White (thirteenth - sixteenth season), Paul R. Tregurtha, Edgar B. Speer (fifteenth and sixteenth seasons), Joseph L. Block (second - seventh seasons), Ortolan Beta Strait (seventeenth season onwards), Indiana Harbor (second - third seasons), Algoma Buffalo (second season only), CSL Tadoussac (third - fifth seasons), Edwin H. Gott, BBC Swift and Federal Katsura (IRYDA Departs and SPARTAN SPARTAN II Tug and Barge Combo only)