Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Acting

Born: 1928-02-08
Died: 2009-12-04
From: Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.6

Also Known As

Вячеслав Васильевич ТихоновViatcheslav TikhonovВ. ТихоновV. Tikhonov

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He was born in Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow. His mother was a kindergarten teacher and his father an engineer in the local textile factory. Vyacheslav dreamed of acting but his parents envisioned a different career, and during the war he worked in a munitions factory. After employment as a metal worker, he began [training for an] acting career in 1945 by entering, not without difficulty, the Actors’ Faculty of VGIK. After graduating VGIK with honours in 1950, he began his acting career on stage of Theatre Studio of Film Actor, where he worked for six years. In 1948 he married Nonna Mordyukova, a popular actress at the time (the couple had one son, Vladimir, also an actor who died in 1990). The marriage was dissolved in 1963. Later Tikhonov married a second time to Tamara Ivanovna Tikhonova and had one child with her, Anna Tikhonova (also an actor) in 1969. He died on 4 December 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has expressed his condolences to Tikhonov's family.

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Awards & Nominations23 won · 0 nominated

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Order of Honour

2008
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Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class

2003
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Russian Federation Government Certificate of Honour

1998
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Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class

1995
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Order of Lenin

1982
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Hero of Socialist Labour

1982
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Shevchenko National Prize

1980
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Lenin Prize

1980
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Lenin Komsomol Prize

1979
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Order of the October Revolution

1978
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Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR

1976
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People's Artist of the USSR

1974
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Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

1970
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USSR State Prize

1970
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People's Artist of the RSFSR

1969
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Merited Artist of the RSFSR

1962
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Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"

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Medal "Veteran of Labour"

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Government Prize in Culture

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Order of the Badge of Honour

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Prize of the Federal Security Service of Russia

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Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"

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Nika Lifetime Achievement Award

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