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 …

Movies & TV Shows

1. Stalker (1979) — Stalker
2. Ten Little Indians (1987) — Philip Lombard
3. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992) — Narrator (voice)
4. At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own (1974) — Lemke
5. Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979) — Nowak
6. Anna Karenina (1967) — Jules Landeau
7. The Pass (1988) — Narrator (voice)
8. A Quiet Day at the End of the War (1970) — Sergeant
9. The Lost Expedition (1975) — Кирилл Петрович Зимин (бывший царский офицер)
10. A Nest of Gentry (1969)
11. New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1988) — Sir Lancelot
12. The Mysterious Wall (1967)
13. The Rescuer (1980) — Николай Вараксин
14. Contract (1985)
15. Magic Hunter (1994) — Maxim
16. The Mathematician and the Devil (1972) — Черт
17. The Turning Point (1978) — doctor
18. The Bodyguard (1979) — Mirzo
19. Khareba and Gogia (1987) — Vokhovski
20. Investigation Held by ZnaToKi (1971) — Борис Миркин - скупщик золота
21. Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1976) — Vorontsov
22. Golden River (1977) — бывший царский офицер Кирилл Зимин
23. Failure of Engineer Garin (1973) — Вольф
24. The Fourth (1972)
25. The Fifteenth Spring (1971) — Messenger
26. Under the Roofs of Montmartre (1975)
27. Forward March, Time! (1977) — Reading poem (voice)
28. Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) — Himself, Tarkovsky's actor
29. The Return (1980)
30. To Remember (1993) — Himself - archiveFootage
31. Hound of the Baskervilles (1971) — Джэк Стэплтон
32. Tear of the Prince of Darkness (1993)
33. The Arrival of a Train (1996)
34. Story of an Unknown Man (1980)
35. Fact (1981) — Stanislav
36. The Devil's Breath (1993) — Damian
37. Vanyushin's Kids (1974) — Костя
38. Rafferty (1980) — Эймс
39. Secrets Shared with a Stranger (1996) — Kriouchoff
40. Who Will go to Truskavets? (1978)

Directed

1. Kerosene Salesman's Wife (1989) — Director
2. A Simple Death (1985) — Director
3. The Guest (1987) — Director
4. The Garden (1983) — Director
5. Jonah, or the Artist at Work (1984) — Director