Vasili Lanovoy
Birthday: Born in 1934-01-16 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Deathday: 2021-01-28
Lanovoy came to prominence through playing bold, dashing characters, combining heroic bravado with a sensitivity typical of Russian heroes, a tendency evident in many of his early features, however, he is best known for his roles in iconic 1970s World War II-themed films. In 2000s, Lanovoy appeared primarily in the roles of Soviet-era party bosses, such as Yuri Andropov in the 2005 TV film Brezhnev. In 2013, he played the role of Cardinal Richelieu in Russian movie The Three Musketeers.
TV Credits
Семнадцать мгновений весны
Character: Karl Wolf - SS Obergruppenfuehrer
A Soviet spy is tasked with disrupting the negotiations between Karl Wolff and Allen Dulles taking place in Switzerland, aimed at forging a separate peace between Germany and the Western Allies....
Три мушкетёра
Character: Кардинал Ришелье
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Семнадцать мгновений весны
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A Soviet spy is tasked with disrupting the negotiations between Karl Wolff and Allen Dulles taking place in Switzerland, aimed at forging a separate peace between Germany and the Western Allies....
Дни Турбиных
Character: Shervinsky
Kiev. Winter of 1918-1919. The power in the city passes from the hetman to the Directorate of Ukraine, then from Petliura to the Bolsheviks. Turbins and their acquaintances have to make their choice. Colonel Alexei Turbin and his brother Nicholas remain loyal to the White Movement and bravely defend it, without worrying about their lives. Elena's (née Turbin) husband, Vladimir Talberg flees shamefully from the city with the retreating German troops. In this troubled time, the family and close fr...
Офицеры
Character: Алексей Фёдорович Осоргин (генерал, отец Егора)
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Война и мир
Character: Anatol Kuragin
An epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army....
Картина
Character: Дмитрий Иванович Уваров
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Солдаты свободы
Character: Andrei Grechko
The action of the epic film takes place in the second half of World War II. The plot focuses on the liberation of European countries from German occupation and the anti-fascist activities of the communist parties of these countries. After the victory at Stalingrad, a decisive turn occurred during the war. The main aim is the rallying of all patriotic forces, the creation of a national anti-fascist front in the struggling countries. The swift offensive of the Soviet troops, problems with the op...
Брежнев
Character: Юрий Андропов
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Movie Credits
Shares in Murder
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Beth Tyson is murdered in her mansion. Chief Inspector Fields, Inspector Bramell and Detective Philbert present three different versions of this crime....
Здравствуйте, доктор!
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Irkutsk Story
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Бой на перекрестке
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War and Peace
Character: Anatol Kuragin
A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army....
The Leader
Character: (voice)
The leader of a flock of geese talks about the cruelty of people, but not all of them....
Tear of the Prince of Darkness
Character: Baron Preimann
Tallinn, Estonia, days before outbreak of World War II. Hotel detective and Polish writer team up to find Tear of the Prince of Darkness, a legendary ring which can bring Satan’s rule over the world....
Officers
Character: Иван Варавва
Two friends are army officers, and the turbulent times throw them from the Civil War in the early 20s to the Soviet conflict in Finland, from China to the Urals....
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Character: Anatol Kuragin
The first film of a four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 novel. In St. Petersburg of 1805, Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a rich nobleman, is introduced to high society. His friend, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, joins the Imperial Russian Army as aide-de-camp of General Mikhail Kutuzov in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon....
A Strange Woman
Character: Andrianov
Irina Kupchenko stars in this psychological drama by the renowned director/writer team of Yuli Raizman and Yevgeny Gabrilovich. In the story, she is the entirely respectable wife of a career diplomat, with a teenaged son. Suddenly one day, she decides to leave her marriage and go live with her lover....
Pier
Character: чтец Пушкина
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Scarlet Sails
Character: Arthur Grey
A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here. He'll take you to the world of your dreams, where you will be loved and happy." The neighbours told jokes about her, children teased her, but she waited for her prince. She trusted in the miracles and waited. Arthur Gray's rule was "if you can make a miracle, do it!". And he made a miracle for the wonderful r...
Dark Sun
Character: Professor Obermeier
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit....
Black Square
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While investigating an ordinary homicide a group of detectives suddenly find a connection to a very first faces of USSR government....
Days of the Turbins
Character: Shervinsky
Masterfully done re-telling of Bulgakov's brilliant play (itself a version of the novel, "White Guard"), "Days of the Turbins"....
The Golden Head on a Scaffold
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War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
Character: Anatol Kuragin (uncredited)
In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the upcoming confrontation between the armies. During the Battle of Borodino, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Bolkonsky's unit waits in the reserve, but he is hit by a shell. Both Anatol and Bolkosnky suffer severe wounds. The French Army is victorious and advances on Moscow....
Anna Karenina
Character: Vronsky
The plot of the film is the love of a married woman, Anna Karenina, and a young officer, Aleksei Vronsky. Anna leaves the family in search of happiness to her beloved person. She has to take a very serious step in her life - to part with her son. The attitude of the high society towards her is changing. All this brings a lot of pain and humiliation to the main character. The tragic story of love and betrayal, the fate of a woman, for the sake of passion who decided to change her life irrevocabl...
Lady Into Lassie
Character: Ivan Berestov
Based on a famous short story by Pushkin, this film tells of a youthful, innocent and pure love story that begins as a girlish joke. Liza is eager to get to know her young neighbor but cannot do so as their fathers are not on speaking terms. Her response is simple and direct. With the help of her loyal servant Nastya, she dresses up as a peasant girl and goes pick mushrooms in the nearby woods.......
The Mystery of Snow Queen
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A new interpretation of the most known and beloved fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen - "Snow Queen"...
Start Liquidation
Character: Colonel Vadim Gavrilovich Chistyakov, pilot, aka Altunin, captain of aviation
Army and police are trying to fight crime in West Belarus during Spring of 1945....
Defeat
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A 4-partmade-for-television feature film. Two young physicists, engaged in the problems of atmospheric electricity and the study of thunderstorm phenomena, both disciples of Professor Dankevich, a talented, straightforward, incorruptible man, unwavering in his principles. Dankevich endeavored to instill this uncompromising fight for honesty in science to the young scientists. And one of them, Sergey Krylov, lives up to the professor's expectations by continuing his work......
Ogaryova Street, Number 6
Character: Владислав Николаевич Костенко
Detective Kostenko is traveling between Moscow and Sukhumi trying to find the responsible for double homicide....
The Three Musketeers
Character: кардинал Ришелье
Young d'Artagnan comes to Paris to be a musketeer. There, he meets three old musketeers, members of the glorious King's Guard, but actually realizes that they are not the great fighters who he thinks they are. While joining the musketeers he is faced with the hidden plots of Cardinal Richelieu, his spy Milady de Winter, and a possible war against England....
Problem Child
Character: Valentin
A drama about a high school conflict based on the novel by Liya Geraskina....
Fifty-Fifty
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A Soviet KGB agents are trying to prevent British-American operation of stealing information about an important scientific project from USSR....
Collegues
Character: Aleksey Maximov
A drama about the group of young people starting their adult lives....
Pavel Korchagin
Character: Pavel Korchagin
A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered"....
Night on the Cordon
Character: Sergey
A grandfather tells his grandson about the events of 1942 that he experienced as a child....
The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
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The first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Tells the story of pagan Rus' during the time of Prince Igor, his murder by the Drevlyans, Olga's revenge, Olga's repentance and adoption of Christianity....
Antony and Cleopatra
Character: Octavius Caesar
The love story of the great Roman commander Anthony and the oriental beauty Cleopatra, the tragic suicide of both, is recreated....
Comrade Song
Character: Сергей
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Meeting on a Distant Meridian
Character: Василий Лановой
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North-West of Berlin
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A military unit freed a soldier from captivity. It turned out that his fiancee serves as a nurse in this unit. But the soldier, whose face was disfigured by the Nazis, didn't dare to meet her....
Solaris
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Kris Kelvin joins the space station orbiting the planet Solaris, only to find its two crew members plagued by "phantoms," creations of Solaris. Kelvin is soon confronted with his own phantom, taking the shape of his dead wife Hari....
Anna and Commander
Character: Komandor
Researching for a script about a famous scientist who tragically passed away, a writer meets his wife Anna who's been struggling with the loss. A tale of the couple's life and love unfolds....
The Last Moons
Character: Он
Old age knows no national boundaries or geographical limits. She can be peaceful and happy in the circle of loved ones and become a disaster if you are abandoned by people dear to you. Man is the only living creature in the world who knows that he will die....
Thirteenth Chairman
Character: Сагадеев
The trial of the collective farm chairman Sagdaev, who deviated from some outdated rules of law in order to develop collective farm production....
The Man with the Gun
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The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent by fellow soldiers from the German front to revolutionary Petrograd to hand Lenin a letter with questions from his comrades....
Martha's Line
Character: Юрий
Moving to a new place of residence, to an old apartment in the slums of St. Petersburg, Olga and her daughter Natasha accidentally discover a letter from the distant blockade of the forty-second year. A letter from the boy Yura for the girl Martha, whom he unwittingly offended before he had time to confess his love… The search for Marta becomes Olga and Natasha's salvation from pain and true self-discovery......
The Sixth of July
Character: Felix Dzerzhinsky
Political thriller based on a story of coup against Bolsheviks by the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party in Moscow on 6–7 July 1918. They assassinate German ambassador in Moscow in hope of gaining public support and dragging the country into new war with Germany....
Soldiers of Freedom
Character: Andrei Grechko
A World War II historical drama and the sequel to the 1970-71's film series Liberation. The film reflects the following events of World War II: the capitulation of Friedrich Paulus's Sixth Army as a result of the failed assault on Stalingrad during Operation Blue in 1942; the preparation for revolt in Slovakia; negotiations of the Polish communists with Władysław Sikorski's government over their joint struggle against fascism; the creation of a National Committee of the Domestic Front in Bulgari...
The Falling
Character: Krutov
A detective investigates the sudden suicide of his father who was one of a responsible for hiding Communist Party money persons....
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Character: Anatol Kuragin
In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and forgets of Andrei. At the last minute, she regrets and abandons her plans to elope with Anatol. Bolkonsky hears of this and declares their betrothal is over. Pierre, trying to calm her down, suddenly announces he loves her....
Rytsarskiy Roman
Character: Алексий II Комнин - император Византии
The action of the movie is set in the late 11th century Constantinople during the time of the 1st Crusade. The crusaders need the help of the emperor Alexius to get to Jerusalem while the latter tries to do his best to get rid of the unwelcome guests. At the same time Caesar Nicephorus plays his own game and betrays his royal fiancée Anna Comnena while trying to win the heart of the beautiful countess Brigitta....
Sea Cadet of Northern Fleet
Character: Maj. Cheremin, Volodya's father
The screen story of four teenagers, on whom the horrors of war had left an indelible mark. Their relatives’ deaths and their yearning for fighting the Nazis led them, one way or another, to a sea cadet school that had been opened on Solovetski Islands at the start of the war. This film tells of men’s friendship, the boys’ first baptism of fire, and the victory…...
An Unfamiliar Weapon, or Crusader 2
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No Password Necessary
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A spy game between Reds and Whites is in full motion during Russian Civil War....
Мещанин во дворянстве
Character: Covielle
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Striped Trip
Character: Otdykhayushiy na plyazhe
A Soviet cruise ship "Evgeni Onegin" is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet Circus. One loose monkey unlocks all cages, letting the tigers and lions out. Poor passengers and crew have no place to run. The captain abandons his post out of fear, and the monkey takes over the captain's post. The ship gets under total control by the tigers and lions. Only one lady is standing up to the challenge. Her name is Marianna, she loves animals, and she takes the situation under control....
Going Inside a Storm
Character: Oleg Tulin
Sergei Krylov and Oleg Tulin, are promising young physicists in the field of thunderstorms. They dream of weather control. But later their ways in science parted - Oleg is ready to tradeoff his standpoints for personal success, but Sergei knows that the truth is more critical....
Тысяча душ
Character: Yakov Vasilyevich Kalinovich
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Stronger Than a Hurricane
Character: Fyodor Khmara
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Invisible Traveller
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At the heart of the picture is a common legend about the last days of Emperor Alexander the First Blessed....
Error of investigation
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Retired investigator Klimov comes with his granddaughter to his country house to rest before a complicated heart operation. In the country, he finds a fugitive convict Andrei Shilin, whom he had once planted for the murder of his wife Jeanne...
Brezhnev
Character: Yuri Andropov
A biographical TV movie about Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev that originally aired in four parts on Russia's Channel One. While nostalgic, the film does not attempt to rehabilitate Brezhnev....
Princess Turandot
Character: Калаф
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Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
Character: Constantine VIII
The second part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". The film depicts the life and reign of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich of Kiev, known in legends as Vladimir the Red Sun. The story begins in 972 AD, after the death of his father, Grand Prince Svyatoslav, which ignites a power struggle among Vladimir and his brothers. The film emphasizes that Russian princes only succeeded when they maintained good relations with the Bulgars and other steppe nations...
Three Hundred Years Ago...
Character: lieutenant Orzhelskiy
In the middle of the 17th century, Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks rose up to fight against the Polish gentry rule. About the events of the National Liberation War in Ukraine under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, who with a firm hand led the insurgent masses to an alliance with Russia....
Бес в ребро
Character: Vladimir Petrovich Chagin
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Lyubov Yarovaya
Character: Mikhail Yarovoy
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One Love of My Soul
Character: Nikolay Karamzin
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Petrovka Street, Number 38
Character: Владислав Николаевич Костенко
According to the story of the same name by Yulian Semyonov. Employees of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department - Colonel Alexei Pavlovich Sadchikov, Major Vladislav Nikolaevich Kostenko and Senior Lieutenant Valentin Roslyakov are investigating the impudent robberies carried out by a group wearing dark glasses criminals. The City Savings Bank was robbed. The investigation of the crime indicated the involvement of a teenager, who soon came to the criminal investigation himself. With his ...
Чужой дед
Character: Igor Stepanovich
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Nutcracker. Anniversary Evening of Ballet Legend Galina Ulanova
Character: Self
Anniversary evening of the legend of the Soviet ballet, People's Artist of the USSR Galina Ulanova. It is dedicated to the actress' 70th anniversary and was held at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR, in 1980....