Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Acting Feb 8, 1928 Dec 4, 2009 (aged 81) Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

He was born in Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow. His mother was a kindergarten teacher and his father an engineer in the local textile factory. Vyacheslav dreamed of acting but his parents envisioned a different career, and during the war he worked in a munitions factory. After employment as a metal worker, he began [training for an] acting career in 1945 by entering, not without difficulty, the Actors’ Faculty of VGIK. After graduating VGIK with honours in 1950, he began his acting career on stage of Theatre Studio of Film Actor, where he worked for six years. In 1948 he married Nonna Mordyukova, a popular actress at the time (the couple had one son, Vladimir, also an actor who died in 1990). The marriage was dissolved in 1963. Later Tikhonov married a second time to Tamara Ivanovna Tikhonova and had one child with her, Anna Tikhonova (also an actor) in 1969. He died on 4 December 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has expressed his condolences to Tikhonov's family.

66 Acting Credits

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Acting

Burnt by the Sun

War and Peace

Seventeen Moments of Spring

War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

They Fought for Their Motherland

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812

To Kill a Dragon

War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov

White Bim Black Ear

We'll Live Till Monday

It Happened in Penkovo

Andersen. Life Without Love

The Young Guard

Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...

Battle for Moscow

TASS Is Authorized to Declare...

An Optimistic Tragedy

Four Winds of Heaven

Vacation at Your Own Expense

Taras Shevchenko

Maximka

Zosya

Love with Benefits