Biography
Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Ульянов; 20 November 1927 – 26 March 2007) was a Soviet and Russian actor who was one of the most recognized persons of the post-World War II Soviet theatre and cinema. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1969 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1986 and received a special prize from the Venice Film Festival in 1982. Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov spent his childhood and youth in the town of Tara, Omsk Oblast. Although he had failed his exams in Schepkinskoe School and for the Moscow Art Theatre School, he moved to Omsk in 1944 to become an actor. After two years of studies in the studio at Omsk Drama he went to Moscow and entered the Schukin Theatre School in 1946.
Ulyanov worked in the Vakhtangov Theatre from 1950 and directed it from 1987. He played a wide range of characters on stage, with Rogozhin in Dostoevsky's Idiot being the most remarkable of them. In 1979 he staged Vasily Shukshin's epic novel I have come to give you freedom, where he starred as Stepan Razin. In 1985 Mikhail Ulyanov staged the satirical pamphlet The Child Buyer by the American playwright John Hersey.
As regards movies, he was frequently cast in the parts of staunch Communist leaders like Vladimir Lenin and Marshal Zhukov. His well-known character Yegor Trubnikov in Predsedatel (Chairman) (1964) became a Soviet classic and his most emblematic role.
The Brothers Karamazov, a 1969 film he co-directed, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival. He also starred in Tema (1979) and Private Life (1982), the films that won top awards at the Berlin Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, respectively.
More recently, he was acclaimed for the roles of Julius Caesar in the screening of Shakespeare's play (1990), Pontius Pilate in the film adaptation of The Master and Margarita (1994), and an avenging veteran marksman in The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment (1999), directed by Stanislav Govorukhin. He died on March 26, 2007, of intestinal disease.
Filmography
all 90
Movies 82
TV Shows 8
Director 2
Writer 1
Red Deer Hunting (2005)
Casual Glance (2005)
Year of the Horse - Constellation Scorpio (2003)
Moscow Suburbs Elegy (2002)
Antikiller (2002)
Northern Lights (2001)
Poor Liza (2000)
Досье детектива Дубровского (1999)
The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment (1999)
An Essay on Victory Day (1999)
Dandelion Wine (1998)
The Waiting Room (1998)
Everything Will Be All Right (1995)
The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov (1995)
The Master and Margarita (1994)
Сам я – вятский уроженец (1992)
Co-op Politburo, or Will be a Long Farewell (1992)
The Case (1991)
The Case of Sukhovo-Kobylin (1991)
House Under the Starry Skies (1991)
The law (1990)
War in the Western Direction (1990)
Stalingrad (1990)
Наш бронепоезд (1988)
The Choice (1987)
Tevye the Milkman (1985)
Counterstrike (1985)
Battle for Moscow (1985)
Victory (1985)
Commander's Day (1983)
Without Witness (1983)
If the Enemy Doesn't Surrender... (1982)
Richard III (1982)
Private Life (1982)
Транзит (1982)
Февральский ветер (1982)
Facts of the Past Day (1981)
Posledniy pobeg (1981)
Антоний и Клеопатра (1980)
Antony and Cleopatra (1980)
Last Escape (1980)
The Theme (1979)
Islands in the Stream (1978)
Обратная связь (1978)
Call Me from Afar (1978)
Blokada: Operatsiya Iskra (1977)
Blokada: Leningradskiy metronom (1977)
The Legend of Till (1977)
Личное счастье (1977)
Soldiers of Freedom (1977)
Situation (1977)
Blokada: Pulkovskiy meredian (1975)
Choice of Purpose (1975)
Blockade: The Luga Defense Line (1974)
Yegor Bulychyov and Others (1973)
Слушайте, на той стороне (1972)
Самый последний день (1972)
Despite It All! (1972)
Princess Turandot (1971)
Liberation: Battle for Berlin (1971)
The Flight (1971)
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow (1970)
Liberation: The Break Through (1970)
Liberation: The Fire Bulge (1970)
On the Way to Lenin (1970)
The Brothers Karamazov (1969)
Варшавская мелодия (1969)
Touches on the V. I. Lenin's Portrait (1967)
Frozen Flashes (1967)
Ленин в Швейцарии (1966)
Новогодний календарь (1966)
As Long as There’s Life in Me (1965)
The Chairman (1964)
Silence (1964)
It Happened at the Police Station (1963)
The Alive and the Dead (1963)
Три часа дороги (1963)
Young-Green (1962)
Battle on the way (1961)
A Simple Story (1960)
Baltic Skies (1960)
Let It Shine! (1960)
Город на заре (1959)
Шли солдаты (1959)
The Volunteers (1958)
Knock on Any Door (1958)
The House I Live In (1957)
Ekaterina Voronina (1957)
They Were the First (1956)
Yegor Bulychyov and Others (1953)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1927-11-20
Deathday2007-03-26 (79 years old)
Birth PlaceBergamak, Russia
SpouseAlla Parfanyak
CitizenshipsSoviet Union, Russia
Also Known AsMikhail Ulyanov, Михаил Ульянов, Michail Alexandrowitsch Uljanow, Michail Alexandrowitsch Ulyanow, Michail Uljanow, Михаил Александрович Ульянов
AwardsZasłużony Działacz Kultury, The Crystal Turandot, Golden Mask, Hero of Socialist Labour, USSR State Prize, Order of the October Revolution, Nika Award, People's Artist of the USSR, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III class, Golden ram, Order of Lenin, Lenin Prize, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Merited Artist of the RSFSR
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