Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1928-02-08
Day of Death
2009-12-04
Place of Birth
Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He was born in Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow. His mother was a kindergarten teacher and his father an engineer in the local textile factory. Vyacheslav dreamed of acting but his parents envisioned a different career, and during the war he worked in a munitions factory. After employment as a metal worker, he began [training for an] acting career in 1945 by entering, not without difficulty, the Actors’ Faculty of VGIK. After graduating VGIK with honours in 1950, he began his acting career on stage of Theatre Studio of Film Actor, where he worked for six years. In 1948 he married Nonna Mordyukova, a popular actress at the time (the couple had one son, Vladimir, also an actor who died in 1990). The marriage was dissolved in 1963. Later Tikhonov married a second time to Tamara Ivanovna Tikhonova and had one child with her, Anna Tikhonova (also an actor) in 1969. He died on 4 December 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has expressed his condolences to Tikhonov's family.
Filmography (60)
Andersen. Life Without Love
2006
Through the Eyes of a Wolf
2006
Берлинский экспресс
2002
An Essay for Victory Day
1999
Sweet Friend of Long Forgotten Years
1996
Venture
1995
A Boulevard Romance
1995
Burnt by the Sun
1994
The Codex of Disgrace
1993
Provincial Benefit
1993
The Incomparable
1993
Demons
1992
The Ghosts of the Green Room
1991
Across Red Nights
1991
