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.
Acting
Movie
Stalker
as Stalker
1979
Movie
Ten Little Indians
as Philip Lombard
1987
Movie
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
as Narrator (voice)
1992
Movie
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
as Lemke
1974
Movie
Pilot Pirx's Inquest
as Nowak
1979
Movie
Anna Karenina
as Jules Landeau
1967
Movie
The Pass
as Narrator (voice)
1988
Movie
A Quiet Day at the End of the War
as Sergeant
1970
Movie
The Lost Expedition
as Кирилл Петрович Зимин (бывший царский офицер)
1975
Movie
A Nest of Gentry
1969
Movie
New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court
as Sir Lancelot
1988
Movie
The Mysterious Wall
1967
Movie
The Rescuer
as Николай Вараксин
1980
Movie
Contract
1985
Movie
Magic Hunter
as Maxim
1994
Movie
The Mathematician and the Devil
as Черт
1972
Movie
The Turning Point
as doctor
1978
Movie
The Bodyguard
as Mirzo
1979
TV
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
as Борис Миркин - скупщик золота
1971
Movie
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
as Vorontsov
1976
Movie
Khareba and Gogia
as Vokhovski
1987
Movie
Golden River
as бывший царский офицер Кирилл Зимин
1977
Movie
Failure of Engineer Garin
as Вольф
1973
Movie
The Fourth
1972
