Actor profile
Sergey Bondarchuk
Sergei Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 — 20 October 1994) was a Soviet director, actor, and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1952). Academy Awards winner (War and Peace, 1969). BAFTA winner (Waterloo, 1971). His directorial debut was Fate of a Man, a WWII classic where he portrayed the main role. Bondarchuk is considered a master of big scale pieces with epic battle scenes that involved thousands of extras (War and Peace, Waterloo). He often starred star in his films, as well as cast his family, notably his wife, actor Irina Skobtseva (e.g. War and Peace, Vybor Tseli, Molchanie Doktora Ivensa). In late 1980s-early 1990s Bondarchuk started his long-term passion project – an adaptation of an epic novel “And Quiet Flows the Don,” together with the UK and Italy; however, the work couldn't be finished before the actor-director passed away in 1994. His son, actor-director Fyodor Bondarchuk, finished the piece in 2006.
52 Movies
4 TV Shows
59 Credits
Filmography
Movies & TV Shows
Thunder Over Rus'
3rd February 1992
Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World
18th October 1982
Profession: Film Actor
1st February 1980
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
22nd March 1979
Old Times in Poshekhonye
1st January 1977
Story of a Real Man
21st October 1948
