Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov (Russian: Ð'Ñ Ñ‡ÐµÑ Ð»Ð°Ì Ð²
Ð'Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ì Ð»ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¢Ð¸Ì Ñ…Ð¾Ð½Ð¾Ð²; 8 February 1928, in Pavlovsky
Posad â€" 4 December 2009, in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor
whose best known role was as Soviet spy, Stierlitz in the television
series Seventeen Moments of Spring. He was a recipient of numerous
state awards, including the titles of People's Artist of the USSR
(1974) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1982).He was born in Pavlovsky
Posad near Moscow. His mother was a kindergarten teacher and his
father an engineer in the local textile factory. Vyacheslav dreamed of
acting but his parents envisioned a different career, and during the
war he worked in a munitions factory. After employment as a metal
worker, he began [training for an] acting career in 1945. by entering,
not without difficulty, the Actors’ Faculty of VGIK. After
graduating VGIK with honours in 1950, he began his acting career on
stage of Theatre Studio of Film Actor, where he worked for six
years.In 1948 he married Nonna Mordyukova, a popular actress at the
time (the couple had one son, Vladimir, also an actor who died in
1990). The marriage was dissolved in 1963. Later Tikhonov married a
second time to Tamara Ivanovna Tikhonova and had one child with her,
Anna Tikhonova (also an actor) in 1969.He died on 4 December 2009 in
Moscow, Russia. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed his
condolences to Tikhonov's family.
Ð'Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ì Ð»ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¢Ð¸Ì Ñ…Ð¾Ð½Ð¾Ð²; 8 February 1928, in Pavlovsky
Posad â€" 4 December 2009, in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor
whose best known role was as Soviet spy, Stierlitz in the television
series Seventeen Moments of Spring. He was a recipient of numerous
state awards, including the titles of People's Artist of the USSR
(1974) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1982).He was born in Pavlovsky
Posad near Moscow. His mother was a kindergarten teacher and his
father an engineer in the local textile factory. Vyacheslav dreamed of
acting but his parents envisioned a different career, and during the
war he worked in a munitions factory. After employment as a metal
worker, he began [training for an] acting career in 1945. by entering,
not without difficulty, the Actors’ Faculty of VGIK. After
graduating VGIK with honours in 1950, he began his acting career on
stage of Theatre Studio of Film Actor, where he worked for six
years.In 1948 he married Nonna Mordyukova, a popular actress at the
time (the couple had one son, Vladimir, also an actor who died in
1990). The marriage was dissolved in 1963. Later Tikhonov married a
second time to Tamara Ivanovna Tikhonova and had one child with her,
Anna Tikhonova (also an actor) in 1969.He died on 4 December 2009 in
Moscow, Russia. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed his
condolences to Tikhonov's family.
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