Sergey Bondarchuk

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-09-25 (74 years old)

Deathday

1994-10-20

Place of Birth

Belozerka, Kherson Governorate, Ukrainian SSR

Sergey Bondarchuk

Biography

Sergei Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 — 20 October 1994) was a Soviet director, actor, and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1952). Academy Awards winner (War and Peace, 1969). BAFTA winner (Waterloo, 1971). His directorial debut was Fate of a Man, a WWII classic where he portrayed the main role. Bondarchuk is considered a master of big scale pieces with epic battle scenes that involved thousands of extras (War and Peace, Waterloo). He often starred star in his films, as well as cast his family, notably his wife, actor Irina Skobtseva (e.g. War and Peace, Vybor Tseli, Molchanie Doktora Ivensa). In late 1980s-early 1990s Bondarchuk sta...

Acting

1976

1968

War and Peace

as Pierre Bezukhov

1979

¡Qué Viva México!

as Narrator (voice)

1975

They Fought for Their Motherland

as pvt. Ivan Zvyagintsev

1960

Escape by Night

as Fyodor Nazukov

1959

Fate of a Man

as Sokolov

1948

The Young Guard

as Comrade Valko

1974

1953

Admiral Ushakov

as Тихон Прокофьев

1953

Attack from the Sea

as Tikhon Prokofiev

1951

Taras Shevchenko

as Taras Shevchenko

1956

Ivan Franko

as Ivan Franko

1978

Father Sergius

as Stepan Kasatsky / Father Sergius

1955

The Grasshopper

as Dr. Osip Dymov

1955

Unfinished Story

as Yuri Yershov

1980

The Gadfly

as Кардинал Монтанелли

1990

1955

Othello

as Othello

1954

It Can Not Be Forgotten

as Aleksandr Garmash

1986

Boris Godunov

as Boris Godunov

1978

Velvet Season

as Richard Bradbury

1970

Uncle Vanya

as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astrov

2006

Quiet Flows The Don

as General Krasnov

1951

Dream of a Cossack

as Semyon Tutarinov

1971

The Golden Gates

as Narrator (Voice)

1966

1979

Take-Off

as Narrator (voice)

1949

Life in Bloom

as selectionist (uncredited)

1959

Шли солдаты

as Matvey Krylov - soldat

2021

Bondarchuk. Battle

as self (archive)

1975

Choice of Purpose

as Igor Kurchatov

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