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Profile of Mikhail Zharov
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Mikhail Zharov |
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27th October 1900 |
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Moscow, Russia |
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Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (1900-1981) was one of the most celebrated Soviet actors, People's Artist of the USSR (1949) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1974). He studied under the prominent director Theodore Komisarjevsky and debuted in Yakov Protazanov's Aelita (1924). Later he became a Protazanov regular, appearing in The Man from the Restaurant (1927) together with Mikhail Chekhov. In the 1930s he was a leading actor of Alexander Tairov's Chamber Theatre, before moving to the Malyi Theatre in 1938. The most acclaimed of his sound films were Peter the Great (1938), in which he played Prince Menshikov, and Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan The Terrible (1942), in which he played Malyuta Skuratov. Zharov was awarded three USSR State Prizes.Zharov, Mikhail
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