Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy

Biography

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.

Known For

To Remember

Stalker

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

Anna Karenina

Failure of Engineer Garin

New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Past and Thoughts

Hound of the Baskervilles

All Movies (53)

• The Arrival of a Train1996
• Secrets Shared with a Stranger1996 · as Kriouchoff
• Magic Hunter1994 · as Maxim
• The Devil's Breath1993 · as Damian
• Tear of the Prince of Darkness1993
• Parajanov: The Last Spring1992 · as Himself, Tarkovsky's actor
• The Dream of a Ridiculous Man1992 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Pass1988 · as Narrator (voice)
• New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court1988 · as Sir Lancelot
• Ten Little Indians1987 · as Philip Lombard
• Khareba and Gogia1987 · as Vokhovski
• The Theater Is My House1987 · as А. Н. Островский
• Two Tickets to India1985
• Contract1985
• I'm Sorry1982 · as Pranas
• Kafedra1982 · as Valentin Orlov
• Fact1981 · as Stanislav
• And I'm With You Again...1981
• The Rescuer1980 · as Николай Вараксин
• Rafferty1980 · as Эймс
• The Return1980
• Story of an Unknown Man1980
• Stalker1979 · as Stalker
• Pilot Pirx's Inquest1979 · as Nowak
• The Bodyguard1979 · as Mirzo
• Who Will go to Truskavets?1978
• The Life of Beethoven1978
• The Turning Point1978 · as doctor
• Forward March, Time!1977 · as Reading poem (voice)
• That Was in Kokand1977 · as поручик Зайченко
• Golden River1977 · as бывший царский офицер Кирилл Зимин
• The Importance of Being Earnest1976 · as Джон Уортинг
• Fiery Bridge1976
• My Calling1976
• Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat1976 · as Vorontsov
• The Lost Expedition1975 · as Кирилл Петрович Зимин (бывший царский офицер)
• Going My Way1975
• Under the Roofs of Montmartre1975
• At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own1974 · as Lemke
• Vanyushin's Kids1974 · as Костя
• Failure of Engineer Garin1973 · as Вольф
• The Fourth1972
• The Gambler1972
• The Mathematician and the Devil1972 · as Черт
• Hound of the Baskervilles1971 · as Джэк Стэплтон
• The Fifteenth Spring1971 · as Messenger
• And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning1971
• Drama on the Hunt1970 · as Граф Карнеев
• A Quiet Day at the End of the War1970 · as Sergeant
• A Nest of Gentry1969
• First Love1969
• Anna Karenina1967 · as Jules Landeau
• The Mysterious Wall1967

All TV Shows (5)

• To Remember1993 · as Himself - archiveFootage
• Failure of Engineer Garin1973 · as Wolf
• Past and Thoughts1972 · as Виссарион Белинский
• Hound of the Baskervilles1971 · as Jack Stapleton
• Investigation Held by ZnaToKi1971 · as Борис Миркин - скупщик золота