Name Zinovy Gerdt | Role Theatre actor | |
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Full Name Zalman Efraimovich Khrapinovich Born 21 September 1916 ( 1916-09-21 ) Sebezh, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire Died November 18, 1996, Moscow, Russia Spouse Tatiana Pravdina (m. 1960–1996), Mariya Novikova (m. 1941–1945) Children Ekaterina Gerdt, Vsevolod Novikov Siblings Berta Khrapinovich, Fira Khrapinovich, Boris Khrapinovich Movies The Golden Calf, The Meeting Place Ca, The Straw Hat, Mary Poppins - Goodbye, Wartime Romance Similar People Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Pyotr Todorovsky, Stanislav Govorukhin, Yuri Kara, Denis Yevstigneyev | ||
Zinovy Gerdt (Russian: Зиновий Гердт, which is a pseudonym, his real name being Zalman Efraimovich Khrapinovich (За́лман Афро́имович Храпино́вич); 21 September 1916 in Sebezh, Russian Empire – 18 November 1996) was a Soviet/Russian theatre and cinema actor, recognized with the title People's Artist of the USSR.
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Biography
At 15, Gerdt graduated from a vocational school affiliated with the Valerian Kuybyshev Electrical Plant. He started working for Metrostroy as a metalworker-electrician. As a hobby, he was an actor the factory's "TRAM" club. In 1937 he began acting at the Puppet Theatre of Moscow House of Pioneers.
Gerdt volunteered to the front when Second World War began. He was enlisted as a senior lieutenant of a field engineering division and suffered a serious leg wound near Belgorod in February 1943. In 1945-82 worked at the Obraztsov Central Puppet Theatre in Moscow. In cinematography, he was primarily a voice actor/narrator and was behind the scenes for a long time. From 1983 onward, he worked as an actor at Ermolova Theatre (Театр Ермоловой). A sculpture picturing Panikovsky, a character of The Little Golden Calf, as played by Gerdt, stands in Kiev.
Gerdt's third wife, Tatiana Pravdina condemned the Knight of Conscience book about Gerdt (published in 2010, by Zebra E, AST) as a composition of unduly attributed and inaccurate texts.