Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin (Russian: Влади́мир Ростисла́вович Га́рдин) (born Vladimir Rostislavovich Blagonravov (Благонра́вов); 18 January [O.S. 6 January] 1877 – 28 May 1965) was a pioneering Russian film director and actor who strove to raise the artistic level of Russian cinema.
He first gained renown as a stage actor in the adaptations of Russian classics by Vera Komissarzhevskaya and other directors. In 1913, he turned to cinema and started producing screen versions of great Russian fiction: Anna Karenina (1914), The Kreutzer Sonata (1914), Home of the Gentry (1914), War and Peace (1915, co-directed with Yakov Protazanov), and On the Eve (1915).
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he organized and presided over the first film school in the world, now known as VGIK. With the advent of sound pictures, he stopped directing and returned to acting. His roles won him a high critical acclaim and the title of People's Artist of the USSR (1947). Gardin published two volumes of memoirs in 1949 and 1952. Another book, The Artist's Life and Labor, followed in 1960.
1947
1946
as Citizen in a katsaveika
1941
as Johann Sebastian Bach
1941
as Fedor Potanin
1941
1939
as Михаил Васильевич (директор гимназии)
1939
1938
1938
as Prince Peter Tolstoy
1938
as генерал
1937
1937
1937
1936
as Prof. Malevich
1936
as Kamyshev
1936
1936
1935
as Jack Ripl, his brother
1935
as Grandfather Anisim
1934
as Карл Францевич Виатачек
1934
as Porfiriy Golovlyov (Yudishka)
1932
as Babchenko
1932
as Colonel
1923
1919
1915
as Napoleon
1913