Mikhail Kuznetsov (actor)
Soviet film and theatre actor (1918–1986)
Mikhail Artemyevich Kuznetsov (Russian: Михаил Артемьевич Кузнецов; 25 February 1918 – 23 August 1986) was a Soviet film and theater actor. He was an Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1955), People's Artist of the RSFSR (1964), and the winner of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1952).
He was born into a proletariat family. After the death of his father, he and his mother moved to the village of Tikhoretskaya. He first received small roles, working his way up to the role of Truffaldino. At some point, he and his mother moved to Moscow, and he completed his education in a professional technical school. He desired to study acting, but was not allowed to abandon work to try out for theater, so he burnt his hand with acid in order to be allowed to leave. He began to study at the Stanislavsky Opera and Drama Studio under Konstantin Stanislavsky in 1937. He was also talented at singing – opera singer Antonina Nezhdanova described him as having a "pleasant baritone".
His debut role was in Mikhail Gavronski's 1940 film The Friends (Russian: Приятели, romanized: Priyateli).
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