Aleksandr Borisov (actor)

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Fyodorovich and the family name is Borisov.

Aleksandr Borisov
Александр Борисов
Born(1905-05-01)1 May 1905
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died12 May 1982(1982-05-12) (aged 77)
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)Actor, film director, screenwriter, singer
Years active1938–1982

Aleksandr Fyodorovich Borisov[a] (1 May 1905 – 12 May 1982) was a Soviet actor, film director, screenwriter and singer.[1]

Borisov was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1962–1966. He won four Stalin Prizes (in 1947 for his theatrical work, in 1950 for Pavlov, and twice in 1951, for portraying Aleksandr Popov and Mussorgsky). People's Artist of the USSR (1951) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1981).[2]

Borisov studied at the studio of the Alexandrinsky Theatre, he joined the troupe of its studio theater upon graduation in 1927 and its main troupe in 1928.

Aleksandr Borisov is best known for starring in biopic films; he appeared in the title roles of Grigori Roshal’s Ivan Pavlov (1949) and Mussorgsky (1950), as Rybkin in Herbert Rappaport’s Aleksandr Popov (1950), and as Alexander Herzen in Grigorii Kozintsev’s ill-fated Belinsky (1953).

Beginning with the Khrushchev Thaw, Borisov started to play more different roles, including, Professor Lapin in Mikhail Kalatozov’s comedy True Friends (1954) and as Marko Mukha in the blockbuster Maksim Perepelitsa (1956). The actor also appeared in adaptations of classical Russian literature such as Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace (1962–1967), in which he portrayed Uncle Rostov, and Iosif Kheifits’s In S. City (1967) from Anton Chekhov’s story Ionych. In 1960, he directed an adaptation of Fedor Dostoevsky’s short story A Gentle Creature with Iya Savvina in the title role.


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  1. ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 117–118. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  2. ^ "Александр Борисов на сайте "Ленфильма"". Archived from the original on 23 January 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2021.