Vladimir Tatosov
Vladimir Mikhailovich Tatosov was a Russian stage, television, voice and film actor. He had an honorary title, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
Biography
Tatosov was born on 10 May 1926, in Moscow, into an Armenian family. He spent his childhood in Baku.In 1946, he graduated from the drama school at the Sverdlovsk Drama Theater. In 1947, he was admitted to the troupe of the Saint Petersburg Comedy Theatre. After a while, he moved to Lenin's Komsomol Theatre. In 1963, he became an artist of the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater. In 1971, he moved to the Lenfilm film studio.
He performed a lot in the variety, and for one year he worked together with Arkady Raikin.
In 2005, Tatosov published his autobiographical book And I Want to Fly.
A few days before his death, Tatosov was admitted to a hospital in Saint Petersburg with cancer. Soon, he was transferred to another hospital, where he contracted COVID-19. Tatosov died from COVID-19 on 24 December 2021, at the age of 95.