Evgeniy Samoylov

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1912-04-15 (94 years old)

Deathday

2006-02-17

Place of Birth

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Evgeniy Samoylov

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.

Acting

1940

Our Cinema

as (archive footage)

1970

Waterloo

as Cambronne

1951

The Unforgettable Year 1919

as Aleksandr Nekhlyudov's son

1947

Admiral Nakhimov

as Lt. Burunov

1963

The Alive and the Dead

as командир коммунистического батальона Фрунзенского района Москвы

1953

Adventure in Odessa

as Gleb's Father

1985

Unripe Raspberries

as Адольф

1986

1958

Aleksa Dundic

as Bodrov

1955

Unfinished Story

as Aleksandr Aganin

1951

Taras Shevchenko

as Nikolay Speshnev

1944

Six O'Clock in the Evening After the War

as Lieutenant Vasily Kudryashov

1939

Shchors

as Nikolay Shchors

1940

The Shining Path

as Aleksei Nikolaevich Lebedev

1936

Accidental Meeting

as Grigoriy Rybin

1946

Sinegoriya

as Amalgama

1944

David Bek

as Kasyanov

1955

Heroes of Shipka

as Gen. Skobolov

1960

A Sleepless Night

as Pavel's father

1971

1947

New Home

as сaptain Ivan Veshnyak

1975

1972

A Long Path on a Short Day

as Mikhail Petrovich

1964

1944

Four Hearts

as Пётр Колчин

1956

1971

Крушение империи

as Savva Abramovich Petrushin

1980

Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa

as герцог Дориа

1981

Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich

as князь Иван Петрович Шуйский

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