Vasili Lanovoy
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.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1934-01-16 · Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
- Died
- 2021-01-28
Known for
- War and Peace (1968) — Anatol Kuragin
- Striped Trip (1961) — episode (uncredited)
- Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) — Karl Wolf - SS Obergruppenfuehrer
- War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1966) — Anatol
- War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova (1966) — Anatole Kuragin
- War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967) — Anatol
- Officers (1971) — Ivan Varavva
- Scarlet Sails (1961) — Arthur Grey
- Anna Karenina (1967) — Vronsky
- Solaris (1968) — Dr. Kris Kelvin
- Lady Into Lassie (1995) — Ivan Berestov
- Days of the Turbins (1976) — Леонид Юрьевич Шервинский, поручик, личный адъютант гетмана
- The Three Musketeers (2013) — кардинал Ришелье
- Petrovka Street, Number 38 (1980) — Kostenko
- Start Liquidation (1983) — Colonel Vadim Gavrilovich Chistyakov, pilot, aka Altunin, captain of aviation
- Soldiers of Freedom (1977) — Andrei Grechko