Aleksandr Shirvindt
Aleksandr Anatolyevich Shirvindt was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, educator, screenwriter and voice actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR. In 2000, he became a theatre director of Moscow Satire Theatre.
Biography
Aleksandr Shirvindt was born in Moscow in a family of a violinist and music teacher Anatoly Gustavovich Shirvindt and Raisa Samoilovna Shirvindt of Moscow Philharmonic Society. Grandfather, Gustav Moiseyevich Shirvindt, was a doctor.In 1956 Shirvindt graduated from Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. The same year he made his cinema debut in She Loves You!. In 1957, he became an actor at the Lenkom Theatre. He also appeared on stage as part of a comedy duo with Mikhail Derzhavin from 1957 to 2017.
Shirvindt appeared in more than 40 films, including Grandads-Robbers, The Irony of Fate, The Twelve Chairs, Three Men in a Boat, Station for Two, The [Irony of Fate 2]. He voiced Aramis in Dog in Boots film.
Shirvindt died on 15 March 2024, at the age of 89.
Aleksandr Shirvindt was posthumously awarded the national cinematographic award "Nika" in the nomination "Honor and Dignity". This was announced by actor Leonid Yarmolnik July 1, 2024 during the awards ceremony, held on the stage of the theater "Mask". The actor added that the Nika award council decided to award Shirvindt two years ago.
Filmography
;actor- Come Tomorrow, Please... as Vadim
- Major Whirlwind as Jozef
- Grandads-Robbers as spokesman of the minister
- The Irony of Fate as Pavlik
- The Twelve Chairs as one-eyed chess player
- Heavenly Swallows as Château-Gibus
- Three Men in a Boat as Sir Samuel William Harris
- Incognito from St. Petersburg as district doctor
- Borrowing Matchsticks as narrator
- Station for Two as Shurik, pianist
- The Circus Princess as Firelli, director of the circus
- Simply Awful! as Chief Physician
- The Most Charming and Attractive as Arkady
- Winter Evening in Gagra as presenter
- Forgotten Melody for a Flute as Myasoedov
- Hello, Fools! as leader of the Social-Socialist party
- The Irony of Fate 2 as uncle Pasha
- The [Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin] as Jean-Baptiste Colbert
- The Time Machine as narrator
- Bayadere as Storyteller
- Like Mushrooms with Рeas Fought as King Peas
- New Aladdin as Aladdin
- Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat
- Dog in Boots as Pretty Boy
- The Smallest Dwarf as Goat
- There was Saushkin as uncle Kapa, a resident of Country Dobryakov
- My Grandmother and I as grandson Borya
- Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat
- Hoffmaniada as Lindhorst / Salamander
Honours and awards
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland";
- *1st class
- *2nd class – for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic theatrical art and many years of teaching activity
- *3rd class
- *4th class – for outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art
- Order of Friendship of Peoples – for services to the development of theatrical art, and effective pedagogical activity
- Medal "Veteran of Labour"
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR
- People's Artist of the RSFSR
- Winner of second prize at the Festival of the Arts' Theatre Spring-74 "Laureate of the "Golden Ostap"
- Chekhov's Medal
- Badge of Honour "Public Recognition"
- Invited to the jury League of KVN
- In 2003, asteroid 6767 Shirvindt was named in his honor.