Aleksandr Borisov (actor)

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Fyodorovich and the family name is Borisov.

Aleksandr Fyodorovich Borisov^[a] (1 May 1905 – 12 May 1982) was a Soviet stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter and singer.^[1] People's Artist of the USSR (1951) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1981).^[2]

Aleksandr Borisov
Александр Борисов
Born	(1905-05-01)1 May 1905 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	12 May 1982(1982-05-12) (aged 77) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Actor, film director, screenwriter, singer
Years active	1938–1982

Biography

Borisov was born in Saint Petersburg into a poor family of a washerwoman and a kitchen worker.

Borisov studied at the studio of the Alexandrinsky Theatre under mentorship of Yuri Yuryev; he joined the troupe of its studio theater upon graduation in 1927 and its main troupe in 1928.

He died in Leningrad, and was buried in the Volkovo Cemetery.

Filmography

• Friends (1938) – Nazarka, cossack
• Ivan Pavlov (1949) – Ivan Pavlov
• Alexander Popov (1949) – Pyotr Nikolayevich Rybkin
• Mussorgsky (1950) – Modest Mussorgsky
• Belinsky (1953) – Alexander Herzen
• Rimsky-Korsakov (1953) – Savva Mamontov
• True Friends (1954) – Professor Aleksandr Fyodorovich Lapin
• Maksim Perepelitsa (1955) – Marko Mukha
• Different Fortunes (1956) – Roshchin's singing voice (role played by Bruno Freindlich)
• October Days (1958) – Vershin, soldier
• A Gentle Creature (1960; film director and screenwriter)
• War and Peace (1966–67) – Uncle Rostov
• In S. City (1967) – Puzyryov
• The Green Carriage (1967) – Aleksandr Mikhailovich Gedeonov

Notes

1. Russian: Александр Фёдорович Борисов, romanized: Aleksandr Fyodorovich Borisov