Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
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.
Stalker
(Stalker)
Мой дом - театр
The Devil's Breath
(Damian)
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
(Поручик Лемке)
Golden River
(бывший царский офицер Кирилл Зимин)
The Lost Expedition
(Кирилл Петрович Зимин (бывший царский офицер))
New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court
(Sir Lancelot)
The Rescuer
The Pass
(Narrator (voice))
Pilot Pirx's Inquest
(Tom Novak)
Secrets Shared with a Stranger
(Kriouchoff)
Failure of Engineer Garin
(Вольф)
The Gambler
That Was in Kokand
(поручик Зайченко)
Magic Hunter
(Maxim)
Ten Little Indians
(captain Philip Lombard)
The Mathematician and the Devil
(Черт)
The Turning Point
(doctor)
Two Tickets to India
Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
(Vorontsov)
Дети Ванюшина
(Костя)
The Fourth
The Fifteenth Spring
(Messenger)
Contract
Hound of the Baskervilles
(Джэк Стэплтон)
Under the Roofs of Montmartre
Tear of the Prince of Darkness
And I'm with You Again...
A Quiet Day at the End of the War
(Sergeant)
Who Will go to Truskavets?
And There Was Evening, And There Was Morning
The Mysterious Wall
Forward March, Time!
(Reading poem (voice))
Rafferty
(Эймс)
Kafedra
(Valentin Orlov)
Следую своим курсом
The Arrival of a Train
Parajanov: The Last Spring
(Himself, Tarkovsky's actor)
The Bodyguard
(Mirzo)
The Return
Мое дело
Story of an Unknown Man
Drama on the Hunt
(Граф Карнеев)
The Importance of Being Earnest
(Джон Уортинг)
Anna Karenina
(Jules Landeau)
A Nest of Gentry
I'm Sorry
(Pranas)
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
(Narrator (voice))
First Love
Fact
(Stanislav)
Investigation Held by ZnaToKi
(Борис Миркин)
To Remember
(Himself - archiveFootage)
