Alexander Yuryevich Khochinsky (; February 29, 1944,

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— April 11, 1998,

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) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor,

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(1980).

Biography

Born into the family of the pop singer Yury Khochinsky (1924-1948) and the leading actress of the

Bryantsev Youth Theatre The A. Bryantsev Youth Theatre (also spelled ''State Theater For Young Audience Named After A. A. Bryantsev'' or ''Bryantsev Young Viewers Theater''; ) is one of the first professional children's theatres in Russia, opened in 1922. In Soviet tim ...

Lyudmila Krasikova (1923-2003). He graduated from the Saint Peter's School. He played in the

(more than 60 roles in performances of different genres), including the role of Gandalf in the play by

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''The Ballad of the Glorious Bilbo Baggins'', and Satire Theater on Vasilievsky. Since the 1980s, he worked a lot in entreprise in Moscow and St. Petersburg. After the expulsion from the Bryantsev Youth Theatre in 1988, the chief director

Zinovy Korogodsky Zinovy Yakovlevich Korogodsky (; July 29, 1926, Tomsk, USSR – May 22, 2004, St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian theater director, Professor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, winner of the Stanislavsky Award, an honorary professor of the Yarosla ...

left the theater along with many of his students and associates, including his wife Antonina Shuranova. For some time they worked in the small theater ''Interatelye'', then in 1994 they organized the own ''Globus Theater''. Since 1991 he has been an actor at the

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film studio. He had excellent vocal skills, sang both in the theater and in the cinema. According to one of the founders of the art song genre in Russia. Buried at

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. Краткая биография Александра Хочинского
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Selected filmography

No Path Through Fire ''No Path Through Fire'' () is a 1968 Soviet war film directed by Gleb Panfilov. The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. Plot The film is set during the Russian Civil War on a hospital train which is transpor ...

(1968) as

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...

soldier *

Bumbarash ''Bumbarash'' () is a 1971 Soviet adventure film, a musical comedy in two episodes loosely based on some early works and the novel ''Bumbarash'' by Arkady Gaidar. During the Russian Civil War, former Imperial Russian Army Private Bumbarash, former ...

(1971) as Lyovka Demchenko *

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(1971) as solo singer * The Woman who Sings (1978) as Valentin Sergeevich *

Squadron of Flying Hussars ''Squadron of Flying Hussars'' () is a 1980 Soviet war film directed by Nikita Khubov and Stanislav Rostotsky. Plot Denis Davydov, a poet and hero, a man who became a legend during his lifetime, literally conquered his generation. Pushkin, Vya ...

(1980) as narrator * The General (1992) as

Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, ''My Sister, Life'', was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an imp ...

Life and Adventures of Four Friends 1/2 ''Zhizn i priklyucheniya chetyrekh druzei 1/2'' () (Russian: ''Жизнь и приключения четырех друзей 1/2'') is a 1981 Soviet children's movie about three smart dogs and one cat who eventually become friends and help peopl ...

(1992) as military sailor

References

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* 1944 births 1998 deaths Male actors from Saint Petersburg Russian bards Soviet male singer-songwriters Soviet singer-songwriters Honored Artists of the RSFSR Soviet male actors Saint Peter's School (Saint Petersburg) alumni Burials at Serafimovskoe Cemetery {{Authority control