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Vasiliy Livanov

Actor, Writer, Director, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn July 19, 1935 (90 years)
Born in Moscow in an acting family. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (11/27/1981). People's Artist of the RSFSR (04/18/1988). His grandfather, Nikolai Livanov (stage name Izvolsky), was an actor at first in provincial, then metropolitan theaters. Father, Boris Nikolaevich Livanov (1904-1972), is an outstanding actor who played about 40 roles in the Art Theater and 30 in the cinema. Frequent guests in the house of the Livanovs were Kachalov, Pasternak, Dovzhenko, Cherkasov, Tarkhanov, Konchalovsky. He studied at the men's school number 170, then, from 1950 to 1954 - at the Moscow secondary art school. After graduating from art school, he entered the B.V.Schukin Theater School. In addition to mastering the intricacies of acting, he tried his hand at directing - he put Yuri Olesha (thesis) on the studio stage of “Three Fat Men” and designed the performance himself. The music for the play was written by Gennady Gladkov, a classmate and schoolmate, and in the future, a wonderful composer, co-author of V. B. Livanov for many works in film, theater and animation.

Known For

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
  • Junior and Karlson
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra
  • Karlson Returns
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches
  • Cheburashka
  • Gena the Crocodile
  • In the Wake of the Bremen Town Musicians
  • The Bremen Town Musicians
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
  • Letter Never Sent
  • Shapoklyak - The Gibus
  • The Mystery of the Third Planet
  • Cheburashka Goes to School
  • I Was Nineteen
  • A Kitten Named Woof
  • The Pass
  • Father Frost and Summer
  • The Puss in Boots
  • 38 parrots
  • Khalif-aist
  • Memories of Sherlock Holmes

Filmography

2019
Medniy vsadnik Rossii · as Old Friend
2007
2005
The Master and Margarita (TV Series) · as Stravinsky
2005
Velvet Revolution · as Shuvalov
2000
Memories of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) · as Sherlock Holmes
1998
Fort Boyard (RU) (TV Series) · as Fouras The Pirate
1997
1993
Gingerbread · as The Wolf (voice)
1992
On svoyo poluchit · as Ben Delaney
1991
1991
Podvodnyye berety · as Colonel Yellow / Commander Morzhov (voice)
1989
Lucky Start 3 · as (voice)
1988
The Pass · as Staryy (voice)
1988
Love For Your Neighbor · as Некто
1988
Drug · as Пёс Друг, Озвучка
1988
1987
1987
1987
Karik and Valya's Remarkable Adventures · as Professor Ivan Germagenovich Enotov
1987
1986
1985
1985
We with Sherlock Holmes · as Sherlock Holmes (voice) / Шерлок Холмс (голос)
1985
1983
Moon Rainbow · as Galbreit
1983
1983
1983
1983
1983
Cheburashka Goes to School · as Gena The Crocodile (voice)
1982
V.I. Lenin. Stranitsy zhizni (TV Series) · as Anatoly Lunacharsky
1982
A Kitten Named Woof (Episode 5) · as Black Cat (voice)
1981
Pup in Boots · as The Dog-Detective (voice) / Пёс-Сыщик (шерлок Холмс)
1981
The Mystery of the Third Planet · as Gromozeka (voice)
1981
1981
1981
1981
1981
Khalif-aist · as Warlock (voice) / Злой Колдун
1980
1980
1980
1980
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (TV Series) · as Sherlock Holmes
1980
1980
1980
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (TV Series) · as Sherlock Holmes
1980
A Kitten Named Woof (Episode 4) · as Black Cat (voice)
1980
1979
1979
Uncle Au · as Uncle Ow (voice) / Дядюшка Ау
1979
1979
1979
Masha and Magic Jam · as Narrator (voice)
1979
A Kitten Named Woof (Episode 3) · as Black Cat (voice)
1979
1979
1978
1978
1978
Masha Is Not Lazy Anymore · as Cuckoo / Bus Driver (voice) / Кукушка / Шофёр Автобуса
1978
1978
1977
1977
Where is Elephant Going? · as Boa (voice)
1977
How to cure Boa? · as Boa (voice)
1977
Zhikharka · as Baba Yaga (voice)
1977
Boa's Grandmother · as Boa (voice)
1977
How Masha Quarrelled with a Pillow · as Narrator (voice)
1977
A Kitten Named Woof (Episode 2) · as Black Cat (voice)
1976
Zhizn i smert Ferdinanda Lyusa (TV Series) · as Payne - English Colonial Doctor In Hong Kong
1976
38 Parrots · as Boa (voice)
1976
38 parrots (TV Series) · as Удав
1976
A Kitten Named Woof (Episode 1) · as Black Cat (voice)
1976
A Kitten Named Woof (TV Series) · as Чёрный Кот
1975
Zvezda plenitelnogo schastya · as Император Николай I
1974
Shapoklyak - The Gibus · as Crocodile Gene (voice)
1973
1973
Jack and Me · as Пёс Джек
1973
1972
1972
Cherished Dream · as Little Donkey (voice)
1971
Cheburashka · as Gena The Crocodile (voice)
1971
Как мы весну делали · as Crow (voice, Uncredited)
1970
Waterloo · as Percy (uncredited)
1970
Karlson Returns · as Karlson (voice)
1970
Monkey from Surogasima Island · as Turtle (voice)
1970
The Blue Bird · as Voice
1969
Gena the Crocodile · as Gena The Crocodile (voice)
1969
1968
Junior and Karlson · as Karlson (voice)
1968
I Was Nineteen · as Wadim
1968
The Puss in Boots · as Miller's Son (voice)
1966
The Most, the Most, the Most · as Crocodile - Cub's Mother
1964
Zelyonyy ogonyok · as Oleg Nikolaevich Korzhikov
1964
1962
Colleagues · as Sasha Zelenin
1962
The Trial of Madmen · as Johannes Werner
1961
The Sound of Life · as Pyotr
1960
Voskreseniye · as Kryltsov
1960
Letter Never Sent · as Andrey

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