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.

Selected filmography

Actor

A Big Family as a photojournalistOctober Days as Abram GotsRoad to the Stage as Khachyan, assistant directorThe Salvos of the Aurora Cruiser as Yakov SverdlovTatyana's Day as Yakov SverdlovIntervention as Imertsaki, a card-sharperThe Sixth of July as Yakov SverdlovMission in Kabul as Secretary of the Embassy of AfghanistanHail, Mary! as Ignacio MuresGrandmaster as Sergey AleksandrovichFailure of Engineer Garin as TyklinskiKsenia, Fedor's Beloved Wife as KondratyevThe Straw Hat as Felix, Fadinar's servantTrust as Yakov SverdlovLove at First Sight as AshotLate Meeting as Vasily Mikhailovich Belyakov, painterI Shall Never Forget as Dr. HakobyanThe Twentieth Century Approaches as Baron von HerlingGobseck as GobseckBandit Petersburg as Moisey Lazarevich GutmanDeadly Force as grandfather TarelkaStreets of Broken Lights as Pavel Borisov

Voice

Solaris as Dr. Snaut Heavenly Swallows as director of the theater-variety show