Alexander Schirvindt

Alexander Schirvindt
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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 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, 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.

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.

Filmography

actor

• Grandads-Robbers (1971) as spokesman of the minister
• The Irony of Fate (1975) as Pavlik
• The Twelve Chairs as eyed chess player
• Borrowing Matchsticks (1980) as narrator
• Station for Two (1982) as Shurik, pianist
• The Most Charming and Attractive (1985) as Arkady
• Winter Evening in Gagra (1985) as presenter
• Forgotten Melody for a Flute (1987) as Myasoedov
• Hello, Fools! (1996) as leader of the Social-Socialist party
• The Irony of Fate 2 (2007) as uncle Pasha
• The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin (2009) as Jean-Baptiste Colbert

voice

• The Time Machine (1967) as narrator
• Bayadere (1973) as Storyteller
• Like mushrooms with peas fought (1977) as King Peas
• New Aladdin (1979) as Aladdin
• Alice in Wonderland (1981) as Cheshire Cat
• Dog in Boots (1981) as Pretty Boy
• The smallest dwarf (1981) as Goat
• There was Saushkin (1981) as uncle Kapa, a resident of Country Dobryakov
• My grandmother and I (2002) as grandson Borya
• Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat (Russian voice)

Honours and awards

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland;
  • 2nd class (19 July 2009) - for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic theatrical art and many years of teaching activity
  • 4th class (2 August 2004) - for outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (20 June 1994) - for services to the development of theatrical art, and effective pedagogical activity
• Medal "Veteran of Labour" (USSR)
• Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1974)
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989)
• Winner of second prize at the Festival of the Arts' Theatre Spring-74 "Laureate of the "Golden Ostap" (1993, for participation in the play "Celebration")
• Chekhov's Medal (2010)
• Badge of Honour "Public Recognition"
• Invited to the jury League of KVN

External links

• Alexander Schirvindt at the Internet Movie Database