Mikhail Zharov
Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Жа́ров; 27 October 1899 – 15 December 1981) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and director. People's Artist of the USSR (1949) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1974).
He studied under the prominent director Theodore Komisarjevsky and debuted in Yakov Protazanov's Aelita (1924). Later he became a Protazanov regular, appearing in The Man from the Restaurant (1927) together with Mikhail Chekhov.
In the 1930s he was a leading actor of Alexander Tairov's Chamber Theatre, before moving to the Maly Theatre where he was engaged from 1938 till the rest of his life and most fully unfolded his actor's gift, mainly playing classical repertoire parts (in Wolves and Sheep, The Inspector-General, Heart is not a Stone, The Thunderstorm, etc.)
Mikhail Zharov gained wide popularity thanks to the role of Zhigan in Nikolai Ekk’s internationally known drama Road to Life (1931). Playing the leader of a gang of thieves, the actor made use of the opportunities of the first sound-film: he endowed his character with a specific accent, played the guitar and sang songs with his peculiar charm. In 1933 he appeared in Boris Barnet's Outskirts.
The most acclaimed of his sound films were Peter the Great (1937), in which he played Prince Menshikov, and Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible (1942–44), in which he played Malyuta Skuratov. His last and probably most popular role was that of Aniskin, an amusing and witty village militiaman in the television series The Village Detective (1968), Aniskin & Fantomas (1974) and Aniskin Again (1978).
Zharov was awarded three Stalin Prizes: twice in 1941 and in 1942.
Acted in
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
2021
as Self - Actor / Various Roles (archive footage)
Aniskin Again
1978
as Aniskin
Aniskin and Fantomas
1974
as Фёдор Анискин
The Very Last Day
1973
as Семен Митрофанович Ковалев
Our Friend Maxim
1973
Zharov Tells...
1970
The Village Detective
1969
as Fyodor Ivanovich Aniskin
Elder Sister
1967
as Ukhov
Cain the XVIII-th
1963
as Minister of War
Attention! The Magician Is in the City!
1963
as cook
Чужой бумажник
1962
Млечный путь
1959
Red Leaves
1958
as (as M. Zharov)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
1958
as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
A Girl with Guitar
1958
as Sviristinsky
Boots
1957
The Anna Cross
1954
as Artynov
Vassa Zheleznova
1953
Happy Flight
1949
as шофер Зачесов
Life in Bloom
1949
as Khrenov
For Those Who Are at Sea
1948
A Noisy Household
1946
as Semibab
Twins
1945
as Vadim Spiridonovich Yeropkin
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1944
as Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Young Fritz
1943
as Fritz
Air Taxi
1943
as Baranov
In the Name of the Motherland
1943
as Globa
Actress
1943
as Reciter in hospital
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
1943
as Tsar (voice)
The District Secretary
1942
as Gavril Fedorovich Rusov
Defense of Tsaritsyn
1942
as Perchikhin
Bogdan Khmelnitskiy
1941
as Gavrilo
Our Cinema
1940
as (archive footage)
Engineer Kochin's Error
1939
as Lartsev
Man in a Shell
1939
as Михаил Александрович Коваленко (учитель истории и географии)
The Vyborg Side
1939
as Platon Vassilievich Dymba
Stepan Razin
1939
as Lazunka
Peter the First, Part II
1938
as Alexander Danilovich Menshikov
The Bear
1938
as Grigori Stepanovich Smirnov
Peter the First, Part I
1937
as Alexander Danilovich Menshikov
The Return of Maxim
1937
as Platon Dymba
Love and Hate
1935
Three Comrades
1935
as Zaitsev
Thunderstorm
1934
as Koudryash (as M.I. Jaroff)
Marionettes
1934
Outskirts
1933
as Krayevitch, a student
26 Commissioners
1932
as Menshevik
Road to Life
1931
as Tomka Zhigan, leader of the wild boys
Two-Buldi-Two
1929
The White Eagle
1928
as Clerk
Don Diego and Pelagia
1928
as Mikhail Ivanovich
The Man from the Restaurant
1927
as Waiter
Miss Mend
1926
Chess Fever
1925
as House Painter
His Call
1925
The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom
1924
as sluzhashchiy i nosil'shchik
Aelita: Queen of Mars
1924
as Actor in Play
Tsar Ivan Vasilevich Groznyy
1915
as Soldier