Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov (; 31 December 1930 – 7 March 2014) was a Soviet and Russian actor, best known for his role of the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov in White Sun of the Desert (1970). His cousin Mikhail was also an actor. Anatoly Kuznestov was named as People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1979. He lived and worked in Moscow.
Biography
Kuznetsov was born and grew up in Moscow, in the family of Russian singer Boris Kuznetsov. He studied music at the Ippolitov-Ivanov Music School, but later went into acting and graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School in 1955. Since 1958 he worked at the Moscow Film Actor Theater. He broke into films playing one of the main characters in Dangers Trails with Druzhnikov while been a student.
Death
He committed suicide on 7 March 2014 at the age of 83.
Selected filmography
Dangerous Paths (1955) as Nikolay Zholudev
Guest from Kuban (1956) as Nikolay Vorobtsov
Behind Show Windows (1956) as Lieutenant Malyutkin
Journey to Youth (1957) as Petrov
Mine Eight Case (1958) as Batanin
To the Black Sea (1958) as Nikolay Kukushkin
On the Roads of War (1959) as Sushkov
Furtuna (1959) as Major Andreev
Tale of the Newlyweds (1960) as Vladimir Solodukhin
Wait for Letters (1960) as Leonid
My Friend, Kolka! (1961) as Rudenko
How I Was Independent (1963) as Lyosha's father
Morning Trains (1963) as Pavel
Planes Didn't Land (1964, voice) Give Me a Book of Complaints (1965) as Ivan Kondakov Conscience (1966) as Martyanov Song Wings (1967) as Musa (voice) Woman's World (1967) as Jean Petrichenkov Spring on the Oder (1968) as Lubentsov Encounters at Dawn (1969) as Sergei Sergeevich Volkov On the Way to Lenin (1969) as Secretary of the District Committee White Sun of the Desert (1970) as Fyodor Sukhov Meine Stunde Null (1970) as Oberleutnant Gornin Otkradnatiyat vlak (1971) as General Pyotr Petrovich Liberation (1971, part 4) as Georgy Zakharov Hot Snow (1972) as Vesnin Kato pesen (1973) as Russian officer Life on Sinful Earth (1973) as Pavel Demidov И на Тихом океане... (1974) as Ilya Gerasimovich Peklevanov Okovani soferi (1975) as Sergeyev Bratushka (1976) as Ales Ivanovich Kazanok Live Your Way (1976) as Vasily Balyshev Jeden stribrny (1976) as Laco Tatar Po sekretu vsemu svetu (1976) as the hitcher with raspberries Incognito from St. Petersburg (1978) as Lyapkin-Tyapkin In the Zone of Special Attention (1978) as Mayor Morozhkyn Right of First Signature (1978) as Sergey Andreyevich Savelyev Last Chance (1978) as Kirill Dmitrievich Native Business (1979) as Grachyov Second Spring (1980) as Nesterov Hordubal (1980) as Juraj Hordubal Hit Back (1981) as Morozhkyn Incident at Map Grid 36-80''' (1982) as General Pavlov Adventures of Petrov and Vasechkin, Usual and Incredible (1983) as cameo Lucky Streak (1983) as deputy director of the institute The Comet (1984) as Kuchkin Sand-Glass (1984) as Stepan Grebentsov Copper Angel (1984) as engineer Kurmayev Reporting from the Line of Fire (1985) as member of the military council Liberty Is on the Opposite Bank (1985) as Smirnov Five Minutes of Fear (1985) as Kornilov Battle of Moscow (1985) as officer (uncredited) Misty Shores (1986) as Colonel Egoriev Was Not Was (1986) as Yuriy Without Sun (1987) as Mikhail Ivanovich Kostylev Jackals (1990) as deputy Nipple System (1990) as Lazar Fomich Bambook Russian Roulette (1990) as Fedor Andreevich Flying Dutchman (1990) as Matvey Fomich Dinosaurs of 20th Century (1990) as Colonel Kryuchkov Genius (1992) as Valentin Smirnov, Nastya's father Tractor Drivers 2 (1992) as farm director, Maryana's father Istanbul Transit (1993) as Nikolai Yevgenievich Asleep Passenger (1994) as Aleksandr Ivanovich Smirnov Shirli-Myrli (1995) as father Za co? (1996) as Ivan Gavrilovich Paradise Apple (1998) as Igor Igorevich Hot Saturday (2002) as Boris Semyonovich Black Mark (2003) as Heydar Aliev (voice) Turkish Gambit (2005) as Ivan Ganetsky Nobody Knows About Sex (2006) as Yegor's grandfather Victory Day (2007) as Andrei Nikolenko
References
External links
Anatoly Kuznetsov at peoples.ru
Anatoly Kuznetsov at kino-teatr.ru
1930 births
2014 deaths
20th-century Russian male actors
21st-century Russian male actors
Male actors from Moscow
Moscow Art Theatre School alumni
Honored Artists of the RSFSR
People's Artists of the RSFSR
Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates United Russia politicians Russian male film actors Russian male stage actors Soviet male film actors