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Aleksandr Davydovich Beniaminov
Александр Бениаминов
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21 May 1904 - 22 March 1991
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Alexander Davydovich Beniaminov was born on May 21, 1903. Since 1920, he played in the "Walking People's Theater" of Kislovodsk, in 1922 he graduated from the Drama Courses of the Central Workers' Club of Batumi, and in 1923-26 he studied at GITIS and at the same time performed in the "Blue Blouse", with which his first noisy success is associated. After graduating from GITIS, Alexander Beniaminov worked in the Leningrad Theater of Satire (1927-1930), then in the Leningrad Music Hall, then performed
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Alexander Davydovich Beniaminov was born on May 21, 1903. Since 1920, he played in the "Walking People's Theater" of Kislovodsk, in 1922 he graduated from the Drama Courses of the Central Workers' Club of Batumi, and in 1923-26 he studied at GITIS and at the same time performed in the "Blue Blouse", with which his first noisy success is associated. After graduating from GITIS, Alexander Beniaminov worked in the Leningrad Theater of Satire (1927-1930), then in the Leningrad Music Hall, then performed on stage. In 1937, Alexander Beniaminov became an actor of the Leningrad Comedy Theater, which in those years was led by Nikolai Akimov. The name of this director is associated with the theatrical glory of Beniaminov - "Twelfth Night" (Malvolio), "Valencian Widow" (Valerio), "Shadow" (Minister of Finance), "Physics" (Erneste). In the movie, the actor became recognizable thanks to small roles in the films "Girl in a hurry for a date", "Don Quixote", "Alien's wallet", "Straw hat", "Tsarevich Prosha". The most famous roles of Alexander Beinaminov are the collector in the comedy “Seven Old Men and One Girl” and the tamer in “Striped Flight”. In 1979, the actor emigrated to the United States, where he later appeared in the film Moscow on the Hudson.
The author of the book "Front recordings of the artist".