Anatoli Dmitrievich Papanov (Russian: Рнатолий
Ð"митриевич Папанов, romanized: Anatoliy Dmitriyevich
Papanov; 31 October 1922 â€" 5 August 1987) was a Soviet stage, film
and voice actor, drama teacher, and theatre director at the Moscow
Satire Theatre where he served for almost 40 years. A prominent
character actor, Papanov is mostly remembered for his comedy roles in
a duo with his friend Andrei Mironov, although he had many dramatic
roles as well. As a voice actor he contributed to over hundred
cartoons. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1973 and awarded
the USSR State Prize posthumously.Anatoli Papanov was born in Vyazma,
Smolensk Governorate (modern-day Smolensk Oblast, Russia) into a mixed
Russian-Polish family. His father Dmitry Filippovich Papanov
(1897â€"1982) was a retired soldier who served as a railway guard and
an amateur actor at the local theatre founded by Nikolai Plotnikov,
where Anatoli and his sister also performed as children. His mother
Elena Boleslavovna Roskovskaya (1901â€"1973) was a Polish milliner who
secretly converted from Roman Catholicism to Russian Orthodoxy.
Anatoli himself was raised in Orthodox traditions.In 1930 the family
moved to Moscow. As a schoolboy Papanov attended drama courses, then
went on to work as a caster at a factory, simultaneously performing in
a popular theatre studio for factory workers organized by Vakhtangov
Theatre actors led by Vasili Kuza whom Papanov later considered his
first teacher. During the late 1930s he made a number of uncredited
appearances in movies, such as a sailor in Lenin in October (1937) or
a passerby in The Foundling (1939).
Ð"митриевич Папанов, romanized: Anatoliy Dmitriyevich
Papanov; 31 October 1922 â€" 5 August 1987) was a Soviet stage, film
and voice actor, drama teacher, and theatre director at the Moscow
Satire Theatre where he served for almost 40 years. A prominent
character actor, Papanov is mostly remembered for his comedy roles in
a duo with his friend Andrei Mironov, although he had many dramatic
roles as well. As a voice actor he contributed to over hundred
cartoons. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1973 and awarded
the USSR State Prize posthumously.Anatoli Papanov was born in Vyazma,
Smolensk Governorate (modern-day Smolensk Oblast, Russia) into a mixed
Russian-Polish family. His father Dmitry Filippovich Papanov
(1897â€"1982) was a retired soldier who served as a railway guard and
an amateur actor at the local theatre founded by Nikolai Plotnikov,
where Anatoli and his sister also performed as children. His mother
Elena Boleslavovna Roskovskaya (1901â€"1973) was a Polish milliner who
secretly converted from Roman Catholicism to Russian Orthodoxy.
Anatoli himself was raised in Orthodox traditions.In 1930 the family
moved to Moscow. As a schoolboy Papanov attended drama courses, then
went on to work as a caster at a factory, simultaneously performing in
a popular theatre studio for factory workers organized by Vakhtangov
Theatre actors led by Vasili Kuza whom Papanov later considered his
first teacher. During the late 1930s he made a number of uncredited
appearances in movies, such as a sailor in Lenin in October (1937) or
a passerby in The Foundling (1939).
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