Vasili Vanin
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Born
13 January 1898
Vasili Vasilyevich Vanin
13 January 1898
Died12 May 1951 (aged 53)
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery
Occupation(s)Actor, theater director, pedagogue
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| Born | Vasili Vasilyevich Vanin 13 January 1898 |
| Died | 12 May 1951 (aged 53) |
| Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, theater director, pedagogue |
| Awards | People's Artist of the USSR |
Vasili Vasilyevich Vanin (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ва́нин; 13 January 1898 – 12 May 1951) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and pedagogue.[1] He was given the award People's Artist of the USSR in 1949.[2]
Vasili Vanin was born on 13 January 1898 in Tambov, in the family of a small railway employee. Having lost his father early, in 1906 he was assigned to an orphanage[3]/ Between 1924 and 1950 he was actor and director in the Mossovet Theatre; from 1950 the leader of the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre.
Filmography
- Tommy (1931)
- The Return of Maxim (1937)
- Lenin in October (1937)
- Peat-Bog Soldiers (1938)
- Lenin in 1918 (1939)
- Member of the Government (1939)
- Valery Chkalov (1941)
- Kotovsky (1942)
- The District Secretary (1942) – Stalin Prizes second degree (1943)
- The Front (1943)
- The Liberated Earth (1946)
- Light over Russia (1947)
- The Precious Seed (1948)
Honors and awards
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1933)
- People's Artist of the RSFSR (1947)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1949)
- Three Stalin Prizes second degree (1943, 1846, 1949)
