Alexander Adabashyan
Born: 1945-08-10 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Known For: Acting
Biography
Actor, writer, designer and director Aleksandr Artyomovich Adabashyan was born in Moscow in 1945 the same year as his friend and steady collaborator Nikita Mikhalkov. The two men’s varied pairings began in 1974 when Adabashyan production designed Mikhalkov’s feature debut “At Home Among Strangers, Strangers at Home”, a low budget “Borscht Western” set during the bloody Russian civil war following the Bolshevik revolution. Adabashyan has designed eight Mikhalkov films in all, physically realizing such disparate visions as Moscow during the Khrushchev regime in 1979’s “Five Evenings,” mid-nineteenth century St. Petersburg in 1980’s “Oblomov”, and the infant Soviet film industry in 1976’s “Slave of Love”. In addition, Adabashyan has some two dozen writing credits to his name including multiple pairings with Mikhalkov. After making his onscreen debut in “At Home Among Strangers”, Adabashyan has made frequent appearances in Russian film and television, primarily in character roles.
Filmography
2025
- Two People in One Life and a Dog
- Impostors
- Father Nicholas. The Story of Charles Sidney Gibbes ... (Writer)
- The Drummer's Fate ... (Writer)
2023
- King & Jester as Гордарик / Одноглазый
- Katya-Katya ... (Writer)
- Invisible
2022
- Strict Regime Parents as отец
2020
- All About My Sister as Ragman
2019
- The Diplomat as Lipkin
2018
- Sobibor ... (Screenplay)
2017
2016
- Legends of Cinema as Self - Заслуженный деятель искусств РФ
- Poor people as издатель
- The Hero
2015
- No Borders as photographer
2013
- Sherlock Holmes as publishing house editor
- Ku! Kin-dza-dza as Droid Abradoks(voice)
- Dog's Paradise
2011
- Kiss through the Wall as Ярило Ольгович
2010
- Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus as Igor
- The New Year's Mystery
- Elephant as Petrovich
- A Man from Boulevard des Capucines as строитель-философ
- Смерть в пенсне или Наш Чехов
- The snow is falling in Russia as Мэр
2008
- Fathers and Sons ... (Writer)
- The Ghost as Aleksandr
- Plus One
2007
- 12 as bailiff
- Dombey and Son ... (Writer)
- Джоконда на асфальте
2006
- Tycoon's Interpreter as Ira's father
- Your Will Not Leave Me
2005
- The Master and Margarita as Berlioz
- Never Again as Before ... (Writer)
2004
- La fonte des neiges ... (Writer)
- About Love In Any Weather as Homeless
2003
- Region as геодезист Михалыч
- Year of the Horse - Constellation Scorpio
2001
- Word of Honour ... (Script Editor)
2000
- Black Room
- Memories of Sherlock Holmes as John Barrymore
- The Musicians from Bremen
- The President and his Granddaughter as Doctor
1999
- A Time to Love ... (Writer)
1998
- Fort Boyard Russia as Fouras the Stargazer
1995
- Moscow Vacation
- Like Two Crocodiles ... (Writer)
1994
- Nastya as представитель министерства культуры
1993
- To Remember as Narrator
- Presence
1991
- KGB Agents Also Fall in Love ... (Screenplay)
1990
- Mado, poste restante ... (Writer)
- Spanish Actress for Russian Minister ... (Writer)
1989
- The Lonely Hunter ... (Screenplay)
1988
- The Story of One Billiard-Room ... (Writer)
1987
- Dark Eyes as episode (uncredited)
- My Favorite Clown ... (Screenplay)
1986
- The Wedding Is Accused as Boris Gorin, MC
- Guard Me, My Talisman as французский турист
1985
1984
- The Lonely Businessman's Big Score ... (Writer)
- Two Hussars
- Sunday Walks ... (Writer)
1983
- Flights in Dreams and in Reality as The Sculptor
- Without Witness ... (Production Design)
- The Kiss as Sergei, the general's son
- Recipe of Her Youth ... (Writer)
- The Chosen Ones ... (Production Design)
1982
- Kin as episode
1981
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles as John Barrymore
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1 as John Barrymore
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles as John Barrymore
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 2 as John Barrymore
1980
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as John Barrymore
- Oblomov as episode (uncredited)
1979
- Siberiade as salesman
- Five Evenings as Timofeyev
- The City Accepted as Вышеградский Рудольф ("Марчелло"), мошенник
1977
- An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano ... (Writer)
- Trans-Siberian Express ... (Writer)
1976
1975
- Mother of Men ... (Production Design)
1974
1973
- Fan ... (Screenplay)