Igor Borisovich Dmitriev (Russian: Ð˜Ì Ð³Ð¾Ñ€ÑŒ Ð'Ð¾Ñ€Ð¸Ì Ñ Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡
Ð"Ð¼Ð¸Ì Ñ‚Ñ€Ð¸ÐµÐ²) (May 29, 1927 â€" January 26, 2008) was a Russian
film and theater actor who specialized in playing aristocratic
characters in costume productions (e.g., Rosencrantz in Grigori
Kozintsev's Hamlet).Igor Dmitriev was born in Leningrad to parents
Boris Petrovich Dmitriev, a professional yachtsman and Elena Tauber, a
ballerina. In 1948 he graduated from the Studio of the Moscow Art
Theatre and in 1949 became an actor of the Vera Komissarzhevskaya
Theater of Drama in Leningrad. From 1967 to 1984 he worked at Lenfilm.
In 1984 he started working at the Nikolay Akimov Theater of Comedy.
Dmitriev worked with Georgi Tovstonogov, Sergei Gerasimov, Yan Frid.
He acted in more than 120 films, not only in the Soviet Union, but
also in Hungary, Poland, GDR, U.S., Morocco and Algeria.He became
People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. In 2000 he played the benefit
performance in the play of George Bernard Shaw and Jerome Kilty Dear
Liar: A Comedy of Letters. He also worked as a radio narrator, being
one of the first actors to do so, he recited the novels of Leo
Tolstoy, Theodore Dreiser, Guy de Maupassant, Émile Zola, Anton
Chekhov and many others.
Ð"Ð¼Ð¸Ì Ñ‚Ñ€Ð¸ÐµÐ²) (May 29, 1927 â€" January 26, 2008) was a Russian
film and theater actor who specialized in playing aristocratic
characters in costume productions (e.g., Rosencrantz in Grigori
Kozintsev's Hamlet).Igor Dmitriev was born in Leningrad to parents
Boris Petrovich Dmitriev, a professional yachtsman and Elena Tauber, a
ballerina. In 1948 he graduated from the Studio of the Moscow Art
Theatre and in 1949 became an actor of the Vera Komissarzhevskaya
Theater of Drama in Leningrad. From 1967 to 1984 he worked at Lenfilm.
In 1984 he started working at the Nikolay Akimov Theater of Comedy.
Dmitriev worked with Georgi Tovstonogov, Sergei Gerasimov, Yan Frid.
He acted in more than 120 films, not only in the Soviet Union, but
also in Hungary, Poland, GDR, U.S., Morocco and Algeria.He became
People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. In 2000 he played the benefit
performance in the play of George Bernard Shaw and Jerome Kilty Dear
Liar: A Comedy of Letters. He also worked as a radio narrator, being
one of the first actors to do so, he recited the novels of Leo
Tolstoy, Theodore Dreiser, Guy de Maupassant, Émile Zola, Anton
Chekhov and many others.
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