Zinovy Gerdt
| Zinovy Gerdt | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
Zalman Efraimovich Khrapinovich 21 September 1916  Sebezh, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire[1] |
| Died |
18 November 1996 (aged 80) Moscow, Russia |
Zinovy Efimovich Gerdt (Russian: Зиновий Ефимович Гердт; 21 September 1916 in Sebezh, Russian Empire – 18 November 1996) was a Soviet/Russian theatre and cinema actor, recognized with the title People's Artist of the USSR.[2]
Biography
At 15, Gerdt graduated from a vocational school affiliated with the Valerian Kuybyshev Electrical Plant. He started working for Metrostroy as a metalworker-electrician. As a hobby, he was an actor the factory's "TRAM" club. In 1937 he began acting at the Puppet Theatre of Moscow House of Pioneers.[3]
Gerdt volunteered to the front when Second World War began. He was enlisted as a senior lieutenant of a field engineering division and suffered a serious leg wound near Belgorod in February 1943.[4] In 1945-82 worked at the Obraztsov Central Puppet Theatre in Moscow. In cinematography, he was primarily a voice actor/narrator and was behind the scenes for a long time. From 1983 onward, he worked as an actor at Ermolova Theatre (Театр Ермоловой). A sculpture picturing Panikovsky, a character of The Little Golden Calf, as played by Gerdt, stands in Kiev.[5]
Gerdt's third wife, Tatiana Pravdina[6] condemned the Knight of Conscience book about Gerdt (published in 2010, by Zebra E, AST) as a composition of unduly attributed and inaccurate texts.[7]
Honours and awards
- Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1959)
- People's Artist of RSFSR (1969)
- Order of the Red Star [8]
- People's Artist of the USSR (1990)
- Award Kinotavr in nomination "The Prize of the Presidential Council for the creative career" (1996)
- Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd class (1996)
Filmography
- 1960 - Vingt Mille Lieues sur la Terre
- 1962 - The Story of a Crime as narrator (voice)
- 1962 - Nine Days in One Year as narrator (voice)
- 1968 - The Little Golden Calf as Mikhail Panikovsky
- 1971 - Dauria as Tsarist General Semenov
- 1972 - Taming of the Fire
- 1972 - We rode the tram Ilf and Petrov as Captain Mazuchcho, animal trainer
- 1979 - The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
- 1980 - Adventures of Captain Vrungel as Captain Christopher Bonifatievich Vrungel
- 1981 - Say a Word for the Poor Hussar as Lev Pertsovsky, dealer parrots
- 1983 - Mary Poppins, Goodbye as Admiral Boom
- 1989 - Intergirl as Boris Semyonovich
- 1985 - The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit as Professor (John R. R. Tolkien).
- 1993 - Me Ivan, You Abraham as Zalman
- 1994 - Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin as Moisei Stalin
- 1997 - Voyna okonchena. Zabudte...
References
- ↑ Мне повезло… я из Себежа!
- ↑ Указ Президента СССР от 9 июля 1990 года № 353 «О присвоении почётного звания „Народный артист СССР" тов. Гердту З. Е.».
- ↑ Интервью с Т. А. Правдиной
- ↑ Матвей Гейзер «Зиновий Гердт» (ЖЗЛ)
- ↑ Автобиографическая справка З. Е. Гердта
- ↑ Зиновий Гердт, rusactors.ru; accessed 14 December 2015. (Russian)
- ↑ Чистое имя; выгодный товар - Культура - Новая Газета [Wholesome name is a profitable good]. Novaya Gazeta (in Russian). Moscow. 28 October 2011. p. 17. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
- ↑ (см. поиск по фамилии — Храпинович Залман Афроимович)