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Occupation
  
Actor, director

Children
  
Mikhail Shirvindt

Role
  
Actor

Name
  
Alexander Schirvindt

Years active
  
1956–present



Full Name
  
Alexander Anatolyevich Shirvindt

Born
  
July 19, 1934 (age 89) (
1934-07-19
)
Moscow, Russia, USSR

Awards
  
People's Artist of Russia Meritorious Artist of Russia

Spouse
  
Natalia Belousova (m. 1957)

Parents
  
Raisa Shirvindt, Anatoly Shirvindt

Grandchildren
  
Alexandra Schirvindt, Andrei Shirvindt

Movies
  
The Irony of Fate, Station for Two, The Irony of Fate 2, Dog in Boots, A Forgotten Tune for the Flute

Similar People
  
Mikhail Derzhavin, Mikhail Shirvindt, Andrei Mironov, Eldar Ryazanov, Vera Vasilyeva

Alexander Anatolyevich Shirvindt (Russian: Александр Анатольевич Ширвиндт, born July 19, 1934) is a Soviet and Russian screen and stage actor, screenwriter, voice actor, People's Artist and Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR. Awarded with Order of Merit for the Fatherland, Order of Friendship of Peoples. Since 2000 he has been a theater director of Moscow Theater of Satire.

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Biography

Alexander Shirvindt was born in Moscow in a family of a violinist and music teacher Anatoly Gustavovich Shirvindt (1896–1962) and Raisa Samoilovna Shirvindt (1898–1985) of Moscow Philharmonic Society. In 1956 he graduated from Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. The same year Shirvindt made his cinema debut in Ona vas lyubit! (1956). Grandfather, Gustav (Gedaliah) Moiseevich Shirvindt (a graduate of Vilnius 1st Gymnasium in 1881), was a doctor.

Shirvindt appeared in more than 40 films, including Grandads-Robbers (1971), The Irony of Fate (1975), The Twelve Chairs (1976), Three Men in a Boat, To Say Nothing of the Dog (1979), Station for Two (1982), The Irony of Fate 2 (2007). He voiced Aramis in Dog in Boots film.

Filmography

actor
  • Major Whirlwind (Майор "Вихрь", 1967) as Jozef
  • Grandads-Robbers (Старики-разбойники, 1971) as spokesman of the minister
  • The Irony of Fate (Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром!, 1975) as Pavlik
  • The Twelve Chairs (Двенадцать стульев, 1976) as eyed chess player
  • Three Men in a Boat (Трое в лодке, не считая собаки, 1979) as Sir Samuel William Harris
  • Incognito from St. Petersburg (Инкогнито из Петербурга, 1977) as district doctor
  • Borrowing Matchsticks (1980) as narrator
  • Station for Two (Вокзал для двоих, 1982) as Shurik, pianist
  • The Most Charming and Attractive (Самая обаятельная и привлекательная, 1985) as Arkady
  • Winter Evening in Gagra (Зимний вечер в Гаграх, 1985) as presenter
  • Forgotten Melody for a Flute (Забытая мелодия для флейты, 1987) as Myasoedov
  • Hello, Fools! (Привет, дуралеи!, 1996) as leader of the Social-Socialist party
  • The Irony of Fate 2 (Ирония Судьбы. Продолжение, 2007) as uncle Pasha
  • The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin (Возвращение мушкетёров, или Сокровища кардинала Мазарини, 2009) as Jean-Baptiste Colbert
  • voice
  • The Time Machine (1967) as narrator
  • Bayadere (1973) as Storyteller
  • Like mushrooms with peas fought (1977) as King Peas
  • New Aladdin (Новый Аладдин, 1979) as Aladdin
  • Alice in Wonderland (Алиса в Стране чудес, 1981) as Cheshire Cat
  • Dog in Boots (Пёс в сапогах, 1981) as Pretty Boy
  • The smallest dwarf (1981) as Goat
  • There was Saushkin (1981) as uncle Kapa, a resident of Country Dobryakov
  • My grandmother and I (2002) as grandson Borya
  • Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat (Russian voice)
  • Honours and awards

  • Order of Merit for the Fatherland;
  • 2nd class (19 July 2009) - for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic theatrical art and many years of teaching activity
  • 4th class (2 August 2004) - for outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art
  • Order of Friendship of Peoples (20 June 1994) - for services to the development of theatrical art, and effective pedagogical activity
  • Medal "Veteran of Labour" (USSR)
  • Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1974)
  • People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989)
  • Winner of second prize at the Festival of the Arts' Theatre Spring-74 "Laureate of the "Golden Ostap" (1993, for participation in the play "Celebration")
  • Chekhov's Medal (2010)
  • Badge of Honour "Public Recognition"
  • Invited to the jury League of KVN
  • References

    Alexander Schirvindt Wikipedia