Aleksandr Borisov (actor)


Aleksandr Fyodorovich Borisov was a Soviet stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter and singer. People's Artist of the USSR and Hero of Socialist Labour. Stalin Prize first degree. Stalin Prize second degree. Stanislavsky State Prize of the RSFSR.

Biography

Borisov was born in Saint Petersburg into a poor family of a washerwoman and a kitchen worker.
Borisov studied at the studio of the Alexandrinsky Theatre under mentorship of Yuri Yuryev; he joined the troupe of its studio theater upon graduation in 1927 and its main troupe in 1928.
He died in Leningrad, and was buried in the Volkovo Cemetery.

Filmography

Friends – Nazarka, cossackIvan Pavlov – Ivan Pavlov – Stalin Prize first degree Alexander Popov – Pyotr Nikolayevich Rybkin – Stalin Prize second degree Mussorgsky – Modest Mussorgsky – Stalin Prize first degree Belinsky – Alexander HerzenRimsky-Korsakov – Savva Mamontov True Friends – Professor Aleksandr Fyodorovich LapinMaksim Perepelitsa – Marko MukhaDifferent Fortunes – Roshchin's singing voice October Days – Vershin, soldierA Gentle Creature War and Peace – Uncle RostovIn S. City – PuzyryovThe Green Carriage – Aleksandr Mikhailovich Gedeonov