Zurab Kapianidze
Born: 1937-04-02 in Nakieti village, Oni district, Georgian SSR, USSR
Died: 2011-07-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
Zurab Kapanadze (born April 1, 1937, Nakieti village, Oni district - died July 4, 2011, Tbilisi) was a Georgian actor. People’s Artist of Georgia (1979), Laureate of the Shota Rustaveli State Prize (1985). In 1961, he graduated from the theatrical faculty of the Shota Rustaveli State Theater Institute in Tbilisi. From 1961 to 1964, he worked at the Kutaisi Lado Meskhishvili State Drama Theater. From 1964, he was an actor at the “Georgian Film” studio. From 1999 to 2004, he was a member of the Georgian Parliament of the 5th convocation, on the list of the electoral bloc “Revival of Georgia”. He passed away in Tbilisi in 2011 and was buried in the Didube Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures, the resting place of many prominent Georgian artists, scientists, and public figures.
Filmography
1990
1986
1985
1984
- Georgians in the Sky as Passenger
- Five Brides Before the One
1983
- The Book of Oath as პაპაი
- The Bandit From The Brick Factory as Inspector Gogia
1981
- The Snow Wedding as Levan
- Open the Windows
1980
- Tbilisi, Paris, Tbilisi as Odishelidze
1979
1978
- Small Town of Anara as Zura
- Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians... as Zurab Toladze
- I Want to See You
- The New Adventures of Captain Vrungel as Lom
1977
- Data Tutashkhia as Bekar Jeiranishvili
- On the Track of the Wolf
- Return
1976
- Living Legends as Ivane
1975
1974
- Story of Ivane Kotorashvili as Ivane
1973
- Clicks
- Stealing Of The Moon as Lomkats Tarba
- Wedding as Jovan Vuksanović
- Old Musicians
1972
- The Saplings as Cart driver
1970
- Feola as Besik - violinist
- Chermen as Berdia
- Star of My Town as Durmishkhan
1969
- Look at These Young People! as Shaliko
- Waiting as Ekvtime
- Pirosmani as Ushangi
- Tariel Golua as Bezhana
1968
- Alooba
- Crucified Island as Simona
1967
- The Plea as Zviaduri
- Morning Bells
1966
- Falling Leaves as Dato's companion
- Ballad of Khevsureti as Apareka
- Londre
- Mikha