Cast
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Acting
Cast
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Known for
Acting
Born
1946-07-23
From
Rostov-na-Donu, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Died
1995-12-03
Also known as Aleksandr Kaydanovsky, Aleksandr Kajdanovsky, Кайдановский Александр Леонидович
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.
★8.1
MOVIE1979
Stalker
as Stalker
★5.7
MOVIE1977
Golden River
as бывший царский офицер Кирилл Зимин
★3.3
MOVIE1996
Secrets Shared with a Stranger
as Kriouchoff
★6.8
MOVIE1992
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
as Narrator (voice)
★5.9
MOVIE1973
Failure of Engineer Garin
as Вольф
★6.0
MOVIE1975
Going My Way
★5.7
MOVIE1981
Fact
as Stanislav
MOVIE1976
My Calling
★5.1
MOVIE1992
Parajanov: The Last Spring
as Himself, Tarkovsky's actor
★4.3
MOVIE1980
Story of an Unknown Man
★6.2
MOVIE1974
Vanyushin's Kids
as Костя
MOVIE1970
Drama on the Hunt
as Граф Карнеев
★5.4
MOVIE1967
Anna Karenina
as Jules Landeau
★5.2
MOVIE1980
The Rescuer
as Николай Вараксин
★6.4
MOVIE1977
Forward March, Time!
as Reading poem (voice)
★6.1
MOVIE1985
Contract
MOVIE1976
The Importance of Being Earnest
as Джон Уортинг
★4.2
MOVIE1993
Tear of the Prince of Darkness
★7.9
MOVIE1972
The Mathematician and the Devil
as Черт
★4.8
MOVIE1988
New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court
as Sir Lancelot
★5.7
MOVIE1969
A Nest of Gentry
★5.9
MOVIE1979
Pilot Pirx's Inquest
as Nowak
★7.5
MOVIE1987
Ten Little Indians
as Philip Lombard
★4.9
MOVIE1980
The Return
★7.0
MOVIE1978
The Life of Beethoven
★6.4
MOVIE1988
The Pass
as Narrator (voice)
★5.8
MOVIE1987
Khareba and Gogia
as Vokhovski
★5.2
MOVIE1975
The Lost Expedition
as Кирилл Петрович Зимин (бывший царский офицер)
★4.2
MOVIE1976
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
as Vorontsov
★4.6
MOVIE1994
Magic Hunter
as Maxim
★5.5
MOVIE1972
The Fourth
★5.3
MOVIE1979
The Bodyguard
as Mirzo
★5.8
MOVIE1993
The Devil's Breath
as Damian
★6.5
MOVIE1974
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
as Lemke
★7.0
MOVIE1987
The Theater Is My House
as А. Н. Островский
★7.3
MOVIE1971
And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning
★5.8
MOVIE1971
Hound of the Baskervilles
as Джэк Стэплтон
★5.5
MOVIE1970
A Quiet Day at the End of the War
as Sergeant
★5.8
MOVIE1978
The Turning Point
as doctor
★7.0
MOVIE1976
Fiery Bridge
★7.0
MOVIE1969
First Love
MOVIE1977
That Was in Kokand
as поручик Зайченко
★5.5
MOVIE1996
The Arrival of a Train
★4.3
MOVIE1972
The Gambler
★6.1
MOVIE1975
Under the Roofs of Montmartre
★6.3
MOVIE1982
I'm Sorry
as Pranas
★5.0
MOVIE1971
The Fifteenth Spring
as Messenger
★5.3
MOVIE1967
The Mysterious Wall
MOVIE1985
Two Tickets to India
★4.5
MOVIE1978
Who Will go to Truskavets?
★7.0
MOVIE1982
Kafedra
as Valentin Orlov
★10.0
MOVIE1981
And I'm With You Again...
★5.5
MOVIE1980
Rafferty
as Эймс