Andrey Mironov
Birthday: Born in 1941-03-08 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Deathday: 1987-08-16
Andrei Aleksandrovich Mironov (07/03/1941-16/08/1987) was one of the most popular and beloved Soviet stage and film actors. He acted in many acclaimed comedy films such as "The Diamond Arm" and "The Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia." One of his most notable roles was in the television film "The 12 Chairs," where he played the leading role of Ostap Bender. He died in 1987 at the age of 46 as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage.
TV Credits
Приключения кота Леопольда
Character: All characters (voice)
Leopold the Cat is a Soviet/Russian animation series about the pacifistic, and intelligent cat, Leopold. Leopold always wears a bow tie even when swimming. He is always confronted by two mischievous mice, Grey and White. It was filmed by T/O Ekran in 1975 - 1987 and its runtime is 87 min. As of 1987, there were 11 episodes in total. Eventually, in 1995, most of the episodes were released on DVD. It was directed by Anatoly Reznikov, and the screenplay was written by Arkady Hayt. Boris Savelyev w...
12 стульев
Character: Остап Бендер
Set in late-1920s Soviet Union, Ostap Bender and Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov are after a stash of diamonds hidden in one of the chairs in 12-chair set. They are forced to go on a cross-country chase when the chairs are auctioned off....
Соломенная шляпка
Character: Леонидос Фадинар
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Как уходили кумиры
Character: Himself / ArchiveFootage
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Приключения кота Леопольда
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Leopold the Cat is a Soviet/Russian animation series about the pacifistic, and intelligent cat, Leopold. Leopold always wears a bow tie even when swimming. He is always confronted by two mischievous mice, Grey and White. It was filmed by T/O Ekran in 1975 - 1987 and its runtime is 87 min. As of 1987, there were 11 episodes in total. Eventually, in 1995, most of the episodes were released on DVD. It was directed by Anatoly Reznikov, and the screenplay was written by Arkady Hayt. Boris Savelyev w...
Обыкновенное чудо
Character: министр-администратор
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Movie Credits
The Diamond Arm
Character: Геннадий Козодоев
A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds....
Сказки русского леса
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Inspector General
Character: Хлестаков
The performance of the Moscow Theater of Satire, based on the play by N.V. Gogol....
Ordinary Miracle
Character: Министр-администратор
A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Plot mainly rotates around the bear, who the wizard had turned into a man. The Bear, who wishes to be a bear once again, can turn into his old self if he were to kiss a princess. It gets complicated when he falls in love with that princess, that arrived at the wizard's house. For how can they be together, if a single kiss will des...
The Straw Hat
Character: Леонидос Фадинар
A musical comedy based on the classic play by Eugène Labiche....
But What If This Is Love?
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High school students Ksenya and Boris are in love but all the world is against them....
The Blonde Around the Corner
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An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception....
Be My Husband
Character: Виктор
The children's doctor is sent on leave to the south where its services in quality "husband" were necessary for young and very beautiful woman....
A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines
Character: Johnny First
Mr. Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph....
Old Men: Robbers
Character: Юрий Проскудин
An old detective does not want to retire. The only way out is to prove to his boss that he still can catch criminals. The problem is that there were no crimes recently to work on. Together with his retired friend he decides to commit a perfect crime himself and then quickly solve it. Real problems start when a real criminal steals money he has stolen....
Three Men in a Boat
Character: Jerome
Three London gentlemen take vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way....
The Property of Republic
Character: Shilovskiy ("Marquess")
Spring of 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of a former court fencing teacher Marquess and a street kid Keshka, is stealing a collection of paintings and sculptures from the abandoned estate owners. Hoping to transport her abroad, criminals wander with a circus troupe, and in their wake goes a tireless criminal investigator — Makar Ovchinnikov....
Beware of the Car!
Character: Dima Semitsvetov
An insurance agent who moonlights as a carthief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern robin hood....
Three Plus Two
Character: Роман
Three best friend are going to spend a vacation on a sea shore. But when they arrive to their usual place they suddenly find that the spot is already occupied - by two beautiful girls....
Faratyev's Fantasies
Character: Faryatyev
Averbakh's adaptation of a play by Alla Sokolova, Faratyev's Fantasies is the story of a man surrounded by four woman, Faratyev, he is madly in love with on, Aleksandra, compassionately take care of another, her aunt, and is indifferent to the other two, Aleksandra's mother, and her sister, Lyuba. The world of these characters are that of dreams, each one's dream in interconnected to that of other, and each respond differently to it. Faratyev is a man who dreams, he live in the world of fantasi...
My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Character: Khanin
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
Character: Andrey Vasilyev
In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in Leningrad trying to find the treasure, each one for himself/herself. What's worse - the only information they have is that the treasure is under a lion - and it's in Leningrad, a city known by its numerous statues of lions. The story gets even more interesting when the soviet m...
Mad Day or Figaro Wedding
Character: Figaro
The servant of Count Almaviva, the jolly and joker Figaro, is going to marry the maid of the Countess Rosina - Susanne. But the count wants to upset the wedding and make the girl his lover....
Heavenly Swallows
Character: Célestin / Floridor
Denise de Flavigny, a young convent student, discovers a double-life of the organist Célestin, who teaches her music at the convent. He secretly composes popular operettas for his mistress Corinne. Célestin visits the city to witness the premiere of his latest effort; Denise escapes the convent as well. Following a quarrel with Célestin, Corinne walks out and instead, Denise appears in her role, taking the name Mam'zelle Nitouche. Denise falls in love with Fernand, a handsome young soldier. Both...
The Story of the Voyages
Character: Orlando
In this fantasy with dragons and flying machines, 10-year-old Marta is determined to find her brother who was kidnapped at Christmastime by a fake Saint Nick because the little boy is blessed with the ability to locate gold. A kindly, wise philosopher-type by the name of Orlando joins Marta in her search, and together they survive a gigantic sleeping dragon and imprisonment in a tower with no clear means of escape. They overcome that hurdle, but later on, Orlando succumbs to the evils of The Pla...
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
Character: Налимов, дирижер
The old actor dreams of a leading role for his young talented daughter. However, she is opposed by a powerful diva of the troupe with a terrible character and great connections. After a series of efforts of the characters and hilarious misunderstandings, the old man's dream come true....
To Love
Character: guy at party
Four love stories connected by newsreels of the late 60s. Each short story begins with an epigraph taken from the Song of Songs of the Old Testament. The stories are interconnected by documentary shots and numerous interviews taken on the streets from passers-by who are asked the same question: “what does it mean to love?”....
Step Forward
Character: Markel
Five sad and funny romantic stories about love......
Don't Be Sad
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Identification Marks None
Character: Glasov (as Andriej Mironow)
Drama about Feliks Dzerzhinsky's life...
White Roses, Pink Elephants
Character: Henry Pulaski
Molly Egan, an almshouse resident, takes part in picketing a laboratory developing nuclear weapons. Judge Henry Pulaski finds her guilty of “trespassing.” Not heeding his warning, Molly again participates in the picket, for which she goes to prison....
The Mysterious Wall
Character:
The action takes place in Siberia where a mysterious wall appears from time to time. Scientists are dispatched to study it and some of them believe that the wall is produced by some sort of alien intelligence, "the Martians", as they call them. The scientists attempt to communicate with the Wall, but all they experience in return are hallucinations about their past experiences. In those visions they are faced with some unresolved issues, repressed memories, and absurd dream-like situations. They...
Convent
Character: Мирон Тушканчик
Musical comedy based on the play by V. Dykhovichny and M. Slobodsky, staged by the Moscow Academic Theater of Satire....
The Pathfinder
Character: Sanglis
Wild West adventures in this action movie based on famous "The Pathfinder" novel by James Fenimore Cooper....
Repeated Wedding
Character: Илья
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Once Cowboy, Twice Cowboy
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A bandit wearing a black mask, having shot the train, takes a bag of gold coins from the post car and hides on his horse. The bandit takes refuge in the ranch, driving out the farmer and his cow. The farmer and the cow leave for the nearest town. In the saloon, the farmer sees an announcement of a reward of one thousand coins for catching a bandit in a black mask. Then he tells local cowboys where the bandit is hiding. Cowboys go to catch a bandit, but they return back all wounded....
Месть кота Леопольда
Character: Леопольд
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Karlsson-on-the-Roof
Character: Rulle
The mischievous Carlson and the gullible Kid are the heroes of a well-known fairy tale. Carlson loves to play pranks very much, and for all the consequences of pranks he has a "proprietary" excuse: "It's nothing, it's an everyday thing!"....
Blue Puppy
Character: Black Cat (voice)
Blue Puppy is a 1976 Soviet animated film. The lyrics and screemplay were written by Yuri Entin, loosely based on the tale by Gyula Urban....
Little Comedies in a Big House
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Theatrical movie based on an ordinary life of an average soviet family...
The Appointment
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A soft and gentle man suddenly starts to change after being appointed to the manager position....
Two Sundays
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Hold on to the Clouds
Character: белый генерал
In 1919, in Petrograd, a pilot Sevastyanov was asked to help in training flight personnel for the young Hungarian republic, together with a Hungarian journalist he makes a desperate, with many adventures, flight across the front to Hungary ......
New Year's Abduction
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The fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to kidnap professional artists for a New Year's concert. A police captain investigates the kidnapping and listens to complaints from the “unkidnapped” artists....
Sherlock Holmes and I
Character: Tom (voice) / пёс Том, помощник Холмса (голос)
The film is an animated parody of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The dog talks about his adventures with the great detective. Listeners do not believe him. At least, they didn't believe it, until Sherlock Holmes suddenly called the dog....
Pages from Pechorin's Journal
Character: Grushnitsky
Grigory Pechorin, a dashing Byronic figure, arrives in Pyatigorsk and gets entangled in a web of romantic ploys and deceptions. Based on "Princess Mary", the longest novella in Mikhail Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time"....
Between Sky and Earth
Character: Klimov
The famous musician is selfish and proud towards ex-wife, son, partner, colleagues and relatives. One day, the plane on which he was supposed to fly on vacation crashes. He's late for that and alive, but for his loved ones he isn't......
Year as Long as Life
Character: Friedrich Engels
The film takes place in Europe in the 19th century. The film shows the popular uprisings that took place there, as well as the search for truth and the confrontation of Karl Marx and opponents of the revolution....
My Younger Brother
Character: Yura Popov
Based on the novel of Vasiliy Aksyonov "A Ticket to the Stars". School is over, final exams are behind — and Dimka was the first to think of waving away from home. The convictions of his elder brother Viktor about a serious attitude to the future life only more “warmed up” the four friends, and for the first time they went to Tallinn for the first time without the bored care of adults......
Ten
Character: Caesar Borgia
The good-natured scholar Christian-Theodore arrives in a small country where miracles occur. He falls in love with the beautiful Princess, whose marriage is a matter of national importance, because her husband will become the new king. But unlike many “suitors”, selfish thoughts are alien to Christian-Theodore. He is sincerely fascinated by her beauty and releases his Shadow, hoping to get a faithful helper in his quest to marry the Princess. But the Shadow is the embodiment of egoism, greed and...
Fate Plays with a Man
Character: Антон
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Return
Character: Борис Андреевич Вязовнин
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Family Happiness
Character:
Omnibus film featuring early works by Chekhov...
Old Walls
Character: Arkady Nikolayevich
Anna Georgievna Smirnova is a serious, businesslike and judicious person. It was these strengths of her character that helped the woman achieve high career results. Anna is a deputy and director of a textile factory in the Moscow region, who has long put an end to her personal life. She lives with her elderly mother. Her husband died, and her only daughter, Irina, is married. But suddenly, in a sanatorium in the southern resort of Anna, she meets a man named Volodya. He is a Muscovite, a former ...
Fiasco of Operation Terror
Character: generał Gleb Witaljewicz Głazow
The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in Russia in the beginning 20s. On the activities of Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the VCHK, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs and at the same time Commissar of Railways. About the work on resuscitation of a collapsed industry, army, railways, to which the Iron Felix attracts (some by threats, some by persuasion) pre-revolutionary intellectuals....
Two Comedies of Branislav Nušić
Character: The Lead
Teleplay based on comedies by Serbian playwright Branislav Nušić and combined with songs by Andrey Mironov...
I Am Returning Your Portrait
Character: himself, narrator
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Literature Lesson
Character: Феликс, внук писательницы
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Капризная принцесса
Character: The Jester (voice)
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