Boris Georgievich Nevzorov (; 18 January 1950 – 18 February 2022) was a Russian actor and film director. He was an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1997)Почётное звание присвоено указом Президента России № 34 от 22 января 1997 года
and a

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(2011).Почётное звание присвоено указом Президента Росии № 336 от 21 марта 2011 года

Life and career

Nevzorov spent his childhood and youth in

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. In 1967 and 1968, he was an actor of the Astrakhan Youth Theatre.

Theatre

In 1968 he entered the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School, where he studied for two courses. In 1975 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School. From 1975 to 1982, he was in the troupe of the Moscow New Drama Theatre. From 1984 to 1986 he was an actor at the Mossovet Theatre, then returned to the Moscow New Drama Theatre, where he worked until 1988. From 1988 to 1989 he worked in Moscow Gogol Drama Theatre. From 1993 to 2005, he was an actor of the Electrotheatre Stanislavsky. From 2005 until the end of his life he worked in the Maly Theater. He taught at the

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Film career

He made his film debut in 1975 film ''Road''. From 1989 to 1991, he worked at the

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. He played Fedotov in drama '' The Fool''. He was the recipient of

Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR The Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR was an annual State Prize established by the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) in 1965. Three Vasilyev Brothers prizes were awarded annually from 1966 unti ...

Death

Nevzorov died from complications of

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in Moscow on 18 February 2022, at the age of 72.

Selected filmography

Actor

* '' Red Bells II'' (1982) as Konstantin Eremeev * '' Find and Neutralize'' (1982) as Fyodor * '' Primary Russia'' (1985) as Ivan Ermolaevich Sedunov * ''Capablanca'' (1986) as Valerian Yeremeyev * ''

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'' (1989) as Nikolay Krylov * '' The Shore of Salvation'' (1990) as Semyon Nikulin * '' The Flood'' (1994) as Trofim * '' Kamenskaya'' (1999) as Olshansky * '' Hot Ice'' (2009) as coach Trofimov * '' The Major'' (2013) as Head of the Department of Internal Affairs * '' The Fool'' (2014) as Fedotov * '' Sophia'' (2016) as Mamon * '' The Last Minister'' (2020) as Gavryutin

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* 1950 births 2022 deaths People from Krasnodar Krai Soviet male actors Russian male television actors People's Artists of Russia Honored Artists of the Russian Federation Recipients of the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR Russian film directors Moscow Art Theatre School alumni Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia {{Russia-actor-stub