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
1991
- The Night of the Iguana
- The Siege of Venice as Priest
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 Stars Don't Fade as Chicherin
- The Fall of the Empire as Savva Abramovich Petrushin
1970
- Waterloo as Cambronne
- The Old House
1964
- The Alive and the Dead as commander of the communist battalion
- The Enchanted Desna as Writer
1962
1960
- Toward the Dawn as Savych
- A Sleepless Night as Pavel's Father
1958
- Aleksa Dundic as Bodrov
- To the Black Sea
1956
- Three Hundred Years Ago... as Bohun, colonel
1955
- The Crash of the Emirate
- Heroes of Shipka as Gen. Skobolov
- Unfinished Story as Aleksandr Aganin
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
- Admiral Nakhimov as Lt. Burunov
- New Home as сaptain Ivan Veshnyak
- Boy From the Outskirts
1946
- Sinegoriya as Amalgama
1944
- Six O'Clock in the Evening After the War as Lieutenant Vasily Kudryashov
- Four Hearts as Пётр Колчин
- David Bek as Kasyanov
1941
1940
- Looking for Happiness
- The Shining Path as Aleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev
- Our Cinema as (archive footage)
1939
- Shchors as Nikolay Shchors
1936
- Tom Sawyer
- Accidental Meeting as Grigoriy Rybin