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Mikhail Zharov

Russian and Soviet actor, film and theatre director (1899-1981) · Russia · On the map · Actors · Died at 82

Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and director. People's Artist of the USSR (1949) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1974).

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1981Died15 December 19811979Order of the October RevolutionAward1977Aniskin AgainFilm, Director1974"Hammer and Sickle" gold medalAwardOrder of LeninAwardAniskin and FantomasSeries, 1974Director, Creator1970Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"Award1969The Village DetectiveFilm, Fyodor Ivanovich Aniskin1967Medal "For Distinguished Labour"AwardOrder of LeninAward1964People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSRAward1963Cain the XVIII-thFilm, Minister of War1954The Anna CrossFilm, Artynov1949Order of the Red Banner of LabourAward1947Stalin Prize, 2nd degreeAward1946A Noisy HouseholdFilm, Director1944Order of the Red StarAwardPeople's Artist of the RSFSRAwardIvan the Terrible, Part IFilm, 1944Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov1942The District SecretaryFilm, Gavril Fedorovich Rusov1941State Stalin Prize, 1st degreeAward1938Order of the Red Banner of LabourAwardPeter the First, Part IIFilm, 1938Alexander Danilovich Menshikov1935Merited Artist of the RSFSRAwardLove and HateFilm, 1935193326 CommissionersFilm, menshevik1931Road to LifeFilm, Фомка «Жиган»1928Don Diego and PelagiaFilm, Mikhail Zharov1926Miss MendFilm, Waiter at the inn1924Aelita: Queen of MarsFilm, Actor in Play1899Born15 October 1899

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Known for

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  • Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot 1958
  • Ivan the Terrible, Part I 1944
  • Chess Fever 1925
  • Aelita: Queen of Mars 1924

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Filmography 40

75 credits on file

Television 1

Media & music

Photos 2

Zharov on a 2001 stamp of RussiaZharov on a 2001 stamp of Russia

Awards

Order of the October Revolution1979
Order of Lenin1974
"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal1974
Order of Lenin1970
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"1970
Order of Lenin1967
Medal "For Distinguished Labour"1967
People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR1964
People's Artist of the USSR1949
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1949
Stalin Prize, 2nd degree1947
Order of the Red Star1944
People's Artist of the RSFSR1944
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree1942
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree1941
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1938
Merited Artist of the RSFSR1935
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
Prize of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Hero of Socialist Labour

About this person

Country
Russia
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1899 to 1981 · aged 82

In the same film or series as Mikhail

Michael ChekhovAlso in The Man from the Restaurant (1927)Faina RanevskayaAlso in Man in a Shell (1939)Grigori AleksandrovAlso in Twins (1945)Ivan PyryevAlso in The District Secretary (1942)