Evgeniy Samoylov
Born: 1912-04-15 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died: 2006-02-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
Yevgeny Samoylov (16 April 1912 – 17 February 2006) was a celebrated Soviet and Russian stage and screen actor known for his heroic and charismatic performances from the 1930s through the 1990s. Born in Saint Petersburg, he trained in theatre and was invited to Moscow by Vsevolod Meyerhold, launching a distinguished stage career before becoming a prominent film star. Samoylov won multiple Stalin Prizes and was named People’s Artist of the USSR in 1974. He was also the father of actress Tatiana Samoilova.
Filmography
1987
- Boris Godunov as Pimen
1986
- Boris Godunov as Pimen
1985
- Unripe Raspberries as Адольф
1984
- Shore of his life as Semyonov-Tyan-Shanskiy
1981
- Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich as князь Иван Петрович Шуйский
1980
- Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa as герцог Дориа
1975
- They Fought for Their Motherland as Colonel Marchenko
1972
- Past and Thoughts as консул
- A Long Path on a Short Day as Mikhail Petrovich
1971
- The Fall of the Empire as Savva Abramovich Petrushin
- The Stars Don't Fade as Chicherin
1970
- Waterloo as Cambronne
1964
- The Enchanted Desna as Writer
- The Alive and the Dead as commander of the communist battalion
1962
1960
- A Sleepless Night as Pavel's father
- Заре навстречу as Savych
1958
- To the Black Sea
- Aleksa Dundic as Bodrov
1956
- Three Hundred Years Ago... as Bohun, colonel
1955
- Unfinished Story as Aleksandr Aganin
- The Crash of the Emirate
- Heroes of Shipka as Gen. Skobolov
1953
- Adventure in Odessa as Gleb's Father
1951
- The Unforgettable Year 1919 as Aleksandr Nekhlyudov's son
- Taras Shevchenko as Nikolay Speshnev
1949
1947
- Boy From the Outskirts
- Admiral Nakhimov as Lt. Burunov
- New Home as сaptain Ivan Veshnyak
1946
- Sinegoriya as Amalgama
1944
- Four Hearts as Пётр Колчин
- Six O'Clock in the Evening After the War as Lieutenant Vasily Kudryashov
- David Bek as Kasyanov
1941
1940
- Our Cinema as (archive footage)
- The Shining Path as Aleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev
- Looking for Happiness
1939
- Shchors as Nikolay Shchors
1936
- Accidental Meeting as Grigoriy Rybin
- Tom Sawyer