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Alexander Lazarev is a Actor Russe born on 3 january 1938 at Saint Petersburg (Russie)

Alexander Lazarev

Alexander Lazarev
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Nationality Russie
Birth 3 january 1938 at Saint Petersburg (Russie)
Death 2 may 2011 (at 73 years) at Moscow (Russie)
Awards USSR State Prize

Alexander Sergeevich Lazarev (Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Ла́зарев; January 3, 1938 – May 2, 2011) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. In 1977 Alexander Lazarev was assigned People's Artist of Russia and received the USSR State Prize, for his work in Moscow Mayakovsky Theater. Throughout his career spanning fifty years he's had more than 50 roles. Alexander Lazarev appeared in more than 100 films, one of which, G. Natanson's One More Thing About Love (Ещё раз про любовь), Tatiana Doronina co-starring, made him famous in 1968, followed by another success, Late Flowers (1969). Lazarev, a man of impeccable manners and impressive stature (which brought him roles of statesmen and army generals), in real life was different too: according to the ORT obituary, "there was hardly anyone in the Russian actors' community for whom the words 'real gentleman' would have suited better". Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Lazarev's widow, is a well-known Soviet and Russian actress. Aleksander Lazarev Jr., their son, is enjoying successful career in film too.



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Biography

Aleksander Lazarev was born in Leningrad, the son of a painter and designer Sergey Nikolayevich Lazarev (1899–1984) and Olympiada Kuzminichna Lazareva (née Tarasova, (1907–1996). The couple, described as the 'first generation Soviet intelligentsia', were spending most of their modest earnings on books, theater and art. Aleksandr's first three years were perfectly happy, then the hell broke loose. In winter 1941 during the blockade the whole of the family's library's got burnt in the furnace to keep rooms warm. Finally the three managed to make it out of the besieged city and settled in Orenburg. The Lazarevs returned home in 1944 and the next year Alexandr went to school. By the time of his graduation he knew already he was going to become an actor, Robert Taylor's performance in Waterloo Bridge was cited later as the major influence. In 1955 Lazarev joined the MKhAT young actors studio. Then, having failed to impress Nikolay Akimov of Leningrad's Theater of Comedy (his early childhood favourite), he settled at Mayakovsky Theater, led at the time by Nikolay Okhlopkov to be instantly loaded with barrage of roles (in just one Hamlet he had five). The role of Boytsov, an electrician in Aleksei Arbuzov's The Irkutsk Story was Aleksander Lazarev's first major success in theater. On March 27, 1960, he married young Mayakovsky Theater actress Svetlana Nemolyaeva to form a union that later for 51 years, till his death.

Lazarev's another strong stage performance, in Aleksander Stein's The Ocean (1961), led to his debut on big screen as Yango in a melodrama/thriller called Free Wind (1961, based on Isaak Dunayevsky's operetta). Among the actor's other notable theater roles were anarchist sailor Guscha in Between the Rainfalls (Okhlopkov's last work in theater), uber-lieutenant Schering in The Defector (1964) and Varavvin in Pyotr Fomenko-directed Death of Tarelkin (1966). And then in 1968 a leading role of physicist Yevdokimov in G. Natanson's One More Thing About Love (co-starring Tatyana Doronina) made Lazarev famous overnight.

Andrey Goncharov's arrival as Mayakovsky Theater's director marked the second phase of Alexander Lazarev's successive work here. His performance as Don Quixote in A Man of La Mancha (hyped as the first Soviet musical theater production) was praised by critics, while a leading role in Venceremos! after Genrikh Borovik's play brought the actor the USSR State Prize. Among other important stage works of Lazarev of the time were General Khludov (in Flight, 1978, based on Mikhail Bulgakov's play), Rittmeister in The Life of Klim Samgin (1981, after an unfinished Maxim Gorky's novel) premiered as a TV play in 1986), Vladimir Mayakovsky in Mark Rozovsky's The Beginnings (1983). More and more of his comic gift
started to come through in Crayfish Laughter (1986, a play about Sarah Bernhardt, the latter played by Svetlana Nemolyaeva), Circle (1988, after W. Somerset Maugham's 1921 play), A Patron's Joke (1992, by Arkady Averchenko). Victim of Our Age (1994, after Alexandr Ostrovsky's play The Last Victim) brought him the Moscow Prize for Literature and Arts. Another prestigious award, Chrystal Turandot, he's got for Keen IV, Tatyana Akhramkova's production of Grigory Gorin's play. In another Gorin's play A Plague On Both Your Houses (1995, again produced by Akhramkina) Lazarev performed in duet with Svetlana Nemolyaeva. He continued to appear in films throughout the 2000s but none of them made headlines. "In theater he was continuously demonstrating his brilliance, his versatility, his comedy actor's potential. In cinema? Silence. Not one of our famous film directors has ever invited him to play anyone of a substance. 'What we have we neglect, once we lose it – mourn it'," writer Edward Radzinsky, speaking on the Russian TV (and quoting the Russian proverb) commented in the wake of the actor's death on May 2, 2011.



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Filmography of Alexander Lazarev (5 films)

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Admiral
Admiral (2008)
, 2h
Directed by Andreï Kravtchouk
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films
Actors Constantin Khabenski, Elizaveta Boïarskaïa, Sergueï Bezroukov, Anna Kovaltchouk, Richard Bohringer, Egor Beroïev
Rating66% 3.3479453.3479453.3479453.3479453.347945
The film opens during the production of War and Peace at Mosfilm Studios in 1964. An elderly Russian noblewoman is set to appear as a film extra until her past comes to light. Although the film's political commissar demands her dismissal since she is a "wife of an enemy of the revolution", director Sergei Bondarchuk is adamant that he needs faces like hers for the production. As the commissar realises the difficulty of identifying her using the file he has, he immediately recognises the elderly woman behind him as the woman he is searching for, while the elderly woman is looking at her own 1910s photo.
A Friend of the Deceased, 1h40
Origin Ukraine
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Alexander Lazarev
Roles Anatoli
Rating68% 3.430843.430843.430843.430843.43084
To The Stars By Hard Ways, 2h28
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films about music and musicians, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Musical films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Alexander Lazarev, Aleksandr Yakovlevich Mikhailov, Igor Ledogorov, Gleb Strizhenov
Roles Professor Klimov
Rating58% 2.946042.946042.946042.946042.94604
In the 23rd century a reconnaissance starship discovers a dead alien spaceship of unknown origin in deep space. The crew are found to be humanoid bodies, made by an advanced cloning process. One humanoid woman appears to be alive but has memory loss and is brought back to Earth. Scientist Sergei Lebedev settles her in his own house and names her Niya.