Boris Andreyev (actor)

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Fyodorovich and the family name is Andreyev.

Boris Andreyev
Борис Андреев
Andreyev in The Fall of Berlin, 1950
Born	(1915-02-09)9 February 1915 Saratov, Russian Empire
Died	25 April 1982(1982-04-25) (aged 67) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place	Vagankovo Cemetery, Moscow
Occupation(s)	Actor, voice actor
Years active	1937–1982
Honours	People's Artist of the USSR (1962)

Boris Fyodorovich Andreyev (9 February [O.S. 27 January] 1915 – 25 April 1982) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He appeared in 51 films between 1939 and 1982. People's Artist of the USSR (1962). Andreev won Stalin Prizes for Pyryev’s Ballad of Siberia (1946) and The Fall of Berlin (1950).

Biography

Boris Andreyev was born 9 February 1915 in Saratov, Russian Empire to a family of workers. His childhood and youth years were spent in Atkarsk, Saratov Governorate. After completing the seventh grade at school, Andreyev went to work as a mechanic-electrician at a сombine factory, where he started going to a local theatrical circle. There he was noticed by a famous Saratov actor, Ivan Slonov, who suggested that he enter the Saratov Theatre Technical School, from which Boris Andreyev successfully graduated in 1937.

For a while, Boris Andreyev played on the Saratov Drama Theater's stage. During the theater tour in Moscow, film director Ivan Pyryev offered him the role of Nazar Duma in Tractor Drivers (1939). It became his first film role and also brought him great popularity in the medium.

His next notable role was as Khariton Balun in A Great Life (1st part in 1939, 2nd part in 1958).

During the Second World War, Andreyev with Mark Bernes acted in the legendary Soviet film Two Soldiers (1943).

In the role of Ilya Zhurbin in A Big Family (1954), Andreyev demonstrated his ability to play psychologically-complicated characters. His roles in Cruelty (1959) and The Road to Berlin (1962) brought forth two of his most intense performances. The role of Vozhak in the film An Optimistic Tragedy became one of the defining performances of his career and one of its major highlights.

In the 1971–1973 years, Boris Andreyev served as the narrator of several documentaries, such as People's Artist Andreyev, People's Artist Kasymov and People's Artist Shukur Burkhanov.

Andreyev died on 25 April 1982 in Moscow, and was buried at Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1939	Shchors	Young Red Armist	Uncredited
	Tractor Drivers	Nazar Duma
	The Fighters	Fighter Pilot
	A Great Life	Khariton Balun
1941	Valery Chkalov	Mechanic 'Chizhik'
	Bogdan Khmelnitskiy	Ivan, called Dovbna, Shaytan's son / Boyar Pushkin
1942	Combat Movie Collection 8	Makar	(segment "Three in a Tank")
	Aleksandr Parkhomenko	Anarchist	Uncredited
1943	Years Young	Zakhar
	Son of Tajikistan	Ivan
	Road to the Stars	Pilot	Uncredited
	Two Soldiers	Sasha
1944	I Am a Sailor of the Black Sea Fleet	Stepan Polosukhin and His father Grigoriy Polosukhin
	The Last Hill	Maj. Zhukovskiy
1945	Golden Path	Epifanstev
	Dark Is the Night	Lyosha Khristoforov
1946	A Great Life 2	Khariton Balun
1948	Ballad of Siberia	Yakov Zakharonovich Burmak
	White Darkness	Soviet partisan Dugin
1949	Encounter at the Elbe	Sgt. Egorkin
1950	The Fall of Berlin	Aleksei Ivanov
	Cossacks of the Kuban	Fedya
1951	The Unforgettable Year 1919	Vladimir Shibayev
1953	Maksimka	Seaman Luchkin
1954	Marina's Destiny	Matvey
	A Big Family	Ilya Matveyevich Zhurbin
1956	The Mexican	Paulino Vera
	Ilya Muromets	Ilya Muromets
1958	Poem of the Sea	Savva Zarudnyi
1959	The Sisters	Sailor Chugay
	In Steppe Silence	episode
	Cruelty	Lazar Baulin
	Foma Gordeev	Zvantsev
1961	Chronicle of Flaming Years	general Glazunov
	The Cossacks	Eroshka
1962	The Road to Berth	Zosima Rosomakha botsman
1963	Velká cesta	Voják
	An Optimistic Tragedy	Vozhak
	Melodies of Dunayevsky	cameo
1964	The Enchanted Desna	Platon Poltorak
1965	Above us is the Southern Cross	Fedoseenko
1967	On the Wild Shore	Litvinov
	Aladdin and His Magic Lamp	episode
1968	Angel Day	Gryzlov
1970	Night Сall	Lavrentiy Kvashnin
1972	Treasure Island	Long John Silver
1974	Vanyushin's Children	Aleksandr Vanyushin
	Entrant Ыtudent	Petro
	Pyotr Martynovich and the Years of Great Life	cameo
1975	At the World's Limit	Trackman
1976	Appointed Granddaughter	Timofey
1980	Sergei Ivanovich Rtires	Sergey Ivanovich
1983	Tears Were Falling	Nikolai Vanichkin
	Preface to the Battle	Mokhov

External links

• Boris Andreyev at IMDb
• Boris Andreyev at AllMovie
• Boris Andreyev at Find a Grave