Aleksandr Shirvindt

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| name = Aleksandr Shirvindt

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| native_name = {{nobold|Александр Ширвиндт}}

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| birthname = Aleksandr Anatolyevich Shirvindt

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1934|07|19}}

| birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2024|03|15|1934|07|19}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russia

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| occupation = Actor, director

| yearsactive = 1952–2018

| awards = People's Artist of the RSFSR

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Aleksandr Anatolyevich Shirvindt ({{langx|ru|Александр Анатольевич Ширвиндт}}, 19 July 1934 – 15 March 2024) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, educator, screenwriter and voice actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989).{{cite book|last=Laurence Senelick|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian Theater|year=2007|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-810-86452-8|pages=349|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oToYAgAAQBAJ&q=shirvindt+aleksandr&pg=PA349|access-date=24 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404134928/https://books.google.fr/books?id=oToYAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA349&lpg=PA349&dq=shirvindt+aleksandr&source=bl&ots=F4EGbHD5Oa&sig=fpyAKgOFeBUuEK5S7DWGcR8KXAM&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwju09eLwJ_aAhWLY1AKHdobA5M4ChDoAQhDMAo#v=onepage&q=shirvindt%20aleksandr&f=false|archive-date=4 April 2018|url-status=live}} In 2000, he became a theatre director of Moscow Satire Theatre.

Biography

Aleksandr Shirvindt was born in Moscow in a family of a violinist and music teacher Anatoly Gustavovich Shirvindt (1896–1962) and Raisa Samoilovna Shirvindt (1898–1985) of Moscow Philharmonic Society. Grandfather, Gustav (Gedaliah) Moiseyevich Shirvindt (a graduate of Vilnius 1st Gymnasium in 1881), was a doctor.{{Cite web |url=http://www.apartment.ru/Article/48799600.html |title=Скатертый переулок, дом 5 |access-date=24 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622220315/http://www.apartment.ru/Article/48799600.html |archive-date=22 June 2018 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://kdkv.narod.ru/Vilna/Vilna-full.htm |title=Выпускники Виленской гимназии (Гдаль-Густав Ширвиндт) |access-date=24 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623004732/http://kdkv.narod.ru/Vilna/Vilna-full.htm |archive-date=23 June 2018 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.petergen.com/history/wil1gim.shtml |title=Окончившие курс Виленской 1-й гимназии |access-date=24 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141405/http://www.petergen.com/history/wil1gim.shtml |archive-date=12 June 2018 |url-status=live }}

In 1956 Shirvindt graduated from Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. The same year he made his cinema debut in She Loves You! (1956). In 1957, he became an actor at the Lenkom Theatre.{{Cite book |last1=Senelick |first1=Laurence |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7juvAwAAQBAJ&dq=Shirvindt+Lenkom&pg=PA591 |title=The Soviet Theater: A Documentary History |last2=Ostrovsky |first2=Sergei |date=2014-06-24 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-19476-0 |language=en}} He also appeared on stage as part of a comedy duo with Mikhail Derzhavin from 1957 to 2017.{{Cite book |last=Publications |first=Europa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sR4Ch1dMe8IC&dq=Shirvindt+Lenkom&pg=PA424 |title=The International Who's Who 2004 |date=2003 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-1-85743-217-6 |language=en}}

Shirvindt appeared in more than 40 films, including Grandads-Robbers (1971), The Irony of Fate (1976), The Twelve Chairs (1976), Three Men in a Boat (1979), Station for Two (1982), The Irony of Fate 2 (2007). He voiced Aramis in Dog in Boots film.{{cite web|url=http://animator.ru/db/?p=show_film&fid=3096|title=Russian animation in letters and figures. Movies. Dog in Boots|trans-title=Российская анимация в буквах и фигурах. Фильмы. "Пёс в сапогах"|publisher=Animator.ru|language=Russian|accessdate=2 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314082957/http://animator.ru/db/?p=show_film&fid=3096|archive-date=14 March 2012|url-status=live}}

Shirvindt died on 15 March 2024, at the age of 89.{{cite news |title=Александр Ширвиндт умер в больнице |url=https://www.starhit.ru/novosti/aleksandr-shirvindt-umer-v-bolnice-5575078/?ysclid=ltsy4i578h530486856 |access-date=15 March 2024 |publisher=Star Hit |date=15 March 2024}}

Aleksandr Shirvindt was posthumously awarded the national cinematographic award "Nika" in the nomination "Honor and Dignity". This was announced by actor Leonid Yarmolnik July 1, 2024 during the awards ceremony, held on the stage of the theater "Mask". The actor added that the Nika award council decided to award Shirvindt two years ago.{{cite web |title=Артиста Александра Ширвиндта удостоили кинопремии "Ника" посмертно |url=https://nsn.fm/culture/artista-aleksandra-shirvindta-udostoili-kinopremii-nika-posmertno |accessdate=2024-07-05 |website=nsn.fm |language=ru}}

Filmography

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Come Tomorrow, Please... (Приходите завтра..., 1963) as Vadim
Major Whirlwind (Майор "Вихрь", 1967) as Jozef
Grandads-Robbers (Старики-разбойники, 1971) as spokesman of the minister
The Irony of Fate (Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром!, 1975) as Pavlik
The Twelve Chairs (Двенадцать стульев, 1976) as one-eyed chess player
Heavenly Swallows (Небесные ласточки, 1976) as Château-Gibus
Three Men in a Boat (Трое в лодке, не считая собаки, 1979) as Sir Samuel William Harris
Incognito from St. Petersburg (Инкогнито из Петербурга, 1977) as district doctor
Borrowing Matchsticks (1980) as narrator
Station for Two (Вокзал для двоих, 1982) as Shurik, pianist
The Circus Princess (Принцесса цирка, 1982) as Firelli, director of the circus
Simply Awful! (Просто ужас!, 1982) as Chief Physician
The Most Charming and Attractive (Самая обаятельная и привлекательная, 1985) as Arkady
Winter Evening in Gagra (Зимний вечер в Гаграх, 1985) as presenter
Forgotten Melody for a Flute (Забытая мелодия для флейты, 1987) as Myasoedov
Hello, Fools! (Привет, дуралеи!, 1996) as leader of the Social-Socialist party
The Irony of Fate 2 (Ирония Судьбы. Продолжение, 2007) as uncle Pasha
The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin (Возвращение мушкетёров, или Сокровища кардинала Мазарини, 2009) as Jean-Baptiste Colbert

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The Time Machine (1967) as narrator
Bayadere (1973) as Storyteller[http://моксяков.рф/bayadera.html Баядера на сайте Анатолия Моксякова]
Like Mushrooms with Рeas Fought (1977) as King Peas
New Aladdin (Новый Аладдин, 1979) as Aladdin
Alice in Wonderland (Алиса в Стране чудес, 1981) as Cheshire Cat
Dog in Boots (Пёс в сапогах, 1981) as Pretty Boy
The Smallest Dwarf (1981) as Goat
There was Saushkin (1981) as uncle Kapa, a resident of Country Dobryakov
My Grandmother and I (2002) as grandson Borya
Alice in Wonderland (2010) as Cheshire Cat (Russian dub)
Hoffmaniada (2018) as Lindhorst / Salamander

Honours and awards

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland";
1st class (29 May 2019)
2nd class (19 July 2009) – for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic theatrical art and many years of teaching activity
3rd class (21 July 2014)
4th class (2 August 2004) – for outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art
Order of Friendship of Peoples (20 June 1994) – for services to the development of theatrical art, and effective pedagogical activity
Medal "Veteran of Labour" (USSR)
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1974)
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989)
Winner of second prize at the Festival of the Arts' Theatre Spring-74 "Laureate of the "Golden Ostap" (1993, for participation in the play "Celebration")
Chekhov's Medal (2010)[http://www.rg.ru/2010/10/28/premii.html Чайки в городе. В МХТ вручены чеховские медали] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006053031/http://www.rg.ru/2010/10/28/premii.html |date=6 October 2015 }} Российская газета, 28 октября 2010
Badge of Honour "Public Recognition"
Invited to the jury League of KVN
In 2003, asteroid 6767 Shirvindt was named in his honor.