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| caption = Mironov in the 1976 film ''[[The Twelve Chairs (1976 film)|The Twelve Chairs]]''
| caption = Mironov in the 1976 film ''[[The Twelve Chairs (1976 film)|The Twelve Chairs]]''
| birthname = Andrei Aleksandrovich Menaker
| birthname = Andrei Aleksandrovich Menaker
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1941|3|7}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1941|3|7}}
| birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1987|8|16|1941|3|8}}
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| death_place = [[Riga]], [[Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic|Latvian SSR]], Soviet Union
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| burial_place = [[Vagankovo Cemetery]], Moscow<ref name="AiF_2003">{{cite news |url=http://www.aif.ru/archive/1684052 |title=Тайны Ваганьковского кладбища |trans-title=Secrets of Vagankovo Cemetery |date=2003-04-14 |work=[[Argumenty i Fakty]] |lang=ru |access-date=2023-03-30 |archive-date=2017-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012213217/http://www.aif.ru/archive/1684052 }}</ref>
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| occupation = Actor, singer, television presenter
| occupation = Actor, singer, television presenter
| yearsactive = 1960–1987
| yearsactive = 1960–present
| mother = [[Maria Vladimirovna Mironova]]
| mother = [[Maria Vladimirovna Mironova]]
| father = {{ill|Alexander Menaker|ru|Менакер, Александр Семёнович}}
| father = {{ill|Alexander Menaker|ru|Менакер, Александр Семёнович}}
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| website = {{url|http://www.amironov.ru/}}
| website = {{url|http://www.amironov.ru/}}
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'''Andrei Aleksandrovich Mironov''' ({{lang-ru|link=no|Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Миро́нов}}; March 7, 1941 – August 16, 1987) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor who played lead roles in some of the most popular Soviet films, such as ''[[The Diamond Arm]]'', ''[[Beware of the Car]]'' and ''[[The Twelve Chairs (1976 film)|Twelve Chairs]]''. Mironov was also a popular singer.<ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2009|place=US|isbn=978-0-8108-6072-8|pages=456–457}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ria.ru/spravka/20110308/342214138.html|publisher=[[RIA Novosti]]|title=Андрей Александрович Миронов. Биографическая справка|date=March 8, 2011 }}</ref>
'''Andrei Aleksandrovich Mironov''' ({{lang-ru|link=no|Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Миро́нов}}; born March 7, 1941) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor who played lead roles in some of the most popular Soviet films, such as ''[[The Diamond Arm]]'', ''[[Beware of the Car]]'' and ''[[The Twelve Chairs (1976 film)|Twelve Chairs]]''. Mironov was also a popular singer.<ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2009|place=US|isbn=978-0-8108-6072-8|pages=456–457}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ria.ru/spravka/20110308/342214138.html|publisher=[[RIA Novosti]]|title=Андрей Александрович Миронов. Биографическая справка|date=March 8, 2011 }}</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==
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Andrei Mironov was known and loved for his roles in films directed by [[Eldar Ryazanov]], [[Leonid Gaidai]], [[Mark Zakharov]], and other filmmakers. He had a wide comedic range and played diverse roles (e.g. a Soviet [[bureaucrat]], Figaro, a romantic spy, a member of the [[intelligentsia]], a [[confidence trick|con man]], an American movie pioneer,<ref>''Лагина Н.'' Мистер Фёст едет на Запад // Вечерняя Москва, 21 сентября 1987. In Russian</ref> a tale-teller, etc.).
Andrei Mironov was known and loved for his roles in films directed by [[Eldar Ryazanov]], [[Leonid Gaidai]], [[Mark Zakharov]], and other filmmakers. He had a wide comedic range and played diverse roles (e.g. a Soviet [[bureaucrat]], Figaro, a romantic spy, a member of the [[intelligentsia]], a [[confidence trick|con man]], an American movie pioneer,<ref>''Лагина Н.'' Мистер Фёст едет на Запад // Вечерняя Москва, 21 сентября 1987. In Russian</ref> a tale-teller, etc.).

On one of his tours through [[Latvia]] in 1987, he lost consciousness on stage while performing the lead role in ''[[The Marriage of Figaro (play)|The Marriage of Figaro]]''. Thinking he was having a [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]], the other actors hastily administered oral [[Nitroglycerin (medication)|nitroglycerin]], a drug commonly given to heart attack patients, but which can cause life threatening complications when mistakenly given to those suffering from [[cerebrovascular disease]]. He was driven to a hospital where two days later he was pronounced dead. His death occurred only eleven days after the passing of his close friend and frequent co-star [[Anatoli Papanov]].


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
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Revision as of 17:05, 16 December 2023

Andrei Mironov
Андре́й Миро́нов
Mironov in the 1976 film The Twelve Chairs
Born
Andrei Aleksandrovich Menaker

(1941-03-07) 7 March 1941 (age 83)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)Actor, singer, television presenter
Years active1960–present
Spouses
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(m. 1971; div. 1976)​
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(m. 1977)​
ChildrenMaria Mironova
Parents
Websitewww.amironov.ru
Signature

Andrei Aleksandrovich Mironov (Template:Lang-ru; born March 7, 1941) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor who played lead roles in some of the most popular Soviet films, such as The Diamond Arm, Beware of the Car and Twelve Chairs. Mironov was also a popular singer.[1][2]

Early life

Mironov was born in Moscow to Maria Vladimirovna Mironova, a Russian, and Aleksandr Menaker [ru], a Russian Jew. His parents were both well-known actors and performed together as the comedy duo "Mironova and Menaker (Миронова и Менакер)".[3]

Career

Mironov studied in the Vakhtangov Theatre School during the early 1950s. From 1958 to 1962, he studied acting at the Moscow Shchukin School. From June 18, 1962, to 1987, Mironov was a permanent member of the trope at the Moscow Theatre of Satire. In 1961, he acted in his first film What If This Is Love? On December 18, 1980, he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR. He also received the Medal "For Labour Valour".

Portrait of Mironov on a postage stamp

Andrei Mironov was known and loved for his roles in films directed by Eldar Ryazanov, Leonid Gaidai, Mark Zakharov, and other filmmakers. He had a wide comedic range and played diverse roles (e.g. a Soviet bureaucrat, Figaro, a romantic spy, a member of the intelligentsia, a con man, an American movie pioneer,[4] a tale-teller, etc.).

Personal life

Mironov's parents, Aleksandr Menaker and Maria Vladimirovna Mironova, were known nationwide as a comedic duo. He was married twice. First to Yekaterina Gradova, with whom he had one daughter, Maria Mironova, and second to Larisa Golubkina, a singer and actress best known for her role of the hussar maiden in Hussar Ballad. Maria Mironova and his adopted daughter Maria Golubkina (from his marriage with Larisa) had successful careers in Russian cinema.

Legacy

A minor planet 3624 Mironov, discovered by Soviet astronomers Lyudmila Karachkina and Lyudmila Zhuravleva in 1982 is named after him.[5]

Partial filmography

  • What If This Is Love? (1962) as Pyotr
  • My Younger Brother (1962) as Yura Popov
  • Three Plus Two (Три плюс два, 1962) as Roman
  • Two Sundays (1963) as Journalist (uncredited)
  • A year like a life (1966) as Friedrich Engels
  • Beware of the Car (Берегись автомобиля, 1966) as Dima Semitsvetov
  • The Mysterious Wall (1967) as Valya
  • The Literature Lesson (1968)
  • To Love (1968, TV Movie) as Anton
  • The Diamond Arm (Бриллиантовая рука, 1968) as Gennadiy Kozodoyev
  • Lyubit... (1969)
  • Family Happiness (1970) as Fyodor Sigaev
  • Umeyete li vy zhit? (1970) as Attendant (uncredited)
  • Dve ulybki (1970)
  • Derzhis za oblaka (1971) as Tukman tábornok
  • The Shadow (1971) as Caesar Borgia, journalist, man eater
  • The Kid and Carlson, who lives on the roof (1971, TV Movie) as Rulle
  • Property of the Republic (Достояние республики, 1972) as Shilovsky aka Marquis
  • Grandads-Robbers (Старики-разбойники, 1972) as Yury Proskudin
  • Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (Невероятные приключения итальянцев в России, 1974) as Andrei Vasiliev
  • Starye steny (1974) as Arkadiy Nikolayevich
  • Mad Day or the Marriage of Figaro (1974, TV Movie) as Figaro
  • The Straw Hat (Соломенная шляпка, 1974, TV Mini-Series) as Leonidas Fadinar
  • Small comedies of the big house (1974, TV Movie) as Husband (segment 2)
  • Lev Gurych Sinichkin (1974, TV Movie)
  • Repeated Wedding (1975, TV Movie) as Boris Andreyevich Vyazovnin
  • Pages of the Pechorin's diary (1975, TV Movie)
  • Step forward (1976) as Markel
  • Povtornaya svadba (1976) as Ilya Fyodorovich
  • Blue Puppy (Голубой щенок, 1976, Short) as Black Cat (voice)
  • Heavenly Swallows (1976) as Célestin / Floridor
  • The Twelve Chairs (12 стульев, 1976, TV Mini-Series) as Ostap Bender
  • An Ordinary Miracle (Обыкновенное чудо, 1978, TV Movie) as Minister Administrator
  • Three Men in a Boat (1979, TV Movie) as Jerome K. Jerome
  • Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1979) (voice)
  • Appointment (1980, TV Series)
  • Say a Word for the Poor Hussar (О бедном гусаре замолвите слово…, 1980) as Narrator (voice)
  • Krakh operatsii Terror (1981)
  • Be my husband (Будьте моим мужем, 1982) as Victor
  • Faratyev's Fantasies (1982, TV Movie) as Faryatyev
  • Revisor (Inspector) (1982, TV Movie) as Khlestakov
  • The Story of Voyages (Сказка странствий, 1982) as Orlando
  • Somewhere in Provincial Garden (1983, TV Movie)
  • The Blonde Around the Corner (Блондинка за углом, 1984) as Nikolay Gavrilovich Poryvaev
  • Victory (1984)
  • My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Мой друг Иван Лапшин, 1984) as Khanin
  • Pobeda (1985) as Charles Bright
  • A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Человек с бульвара Капуцинов, 1987) as Johnny First
  • The Pathfinder (1987) as Sanglis
  • //Revenge of Leopold Cat// (1975) Cat Leopold / White Mouse / Grey Mouse / Doctor

References

  1. ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 456–457. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  2. ^ "Андрей Александрович Миронов. Биографическая справка". RIA Novosti. March 8, 2011.
  3. ^ "МИРО́НОВА И МЕНА́КЕР" [Mironova and Menaker]. Great Russian Encyclopedia (in Russian). 2217408. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  4. ^ Лагина Н. Мистер Фёст едет на Запад // Вечерняя Москва, 21 сентября 1987. In Russian
  5. ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (5th ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. p. 305. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
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