Ruben Simonov
Appearance
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![]() Simonov on a 1971 Soviet stamp | |
Born | Ruben Nikolayevich Simonyants 2 April 1899 |
Died | 5 December 1968 Moscow, Soviet Union | (aged 69)
Occupation(s) | Actor, theater director and pedagogue |
Years active | 1919–1968 |
Ruben Nikolayevich Simonov (Russian: Рубен Николаевич Симонов, Armenian: Ռուբեն Նիկոլայի Սիմոնով; 2 April 1899 – 5 December 1968) was a Soviet actor, theater director and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1946).
Biography
[edit]Simonov was born in Moscow, to a family of Russian Armenians. Graduating from the Moscow State University, he then became an actor, starting his career at the Armenian drama studio in the Armenian House of Culture.[1] In 1939, he became director of the Vakhtangov Theatre. He also led the Armenian and Uzbek theaters of Moscow.
Selected filmography
[edit]- Admiral Nakhimov (1946) as Osman Pasha
- The Fall of Berlin (1950) as Anastas Mikoyan
- The Golden Antelope (1954) as Raja (voice)
- The Gadfly (1955) as Cardi
Awards and honors
[edit]- Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1933)
- People's Artist of the RSFSR (1937)
- Three Orders of Lenin (1939, 1946, 1967)
- Three Stalin Prizes (1943, 1947, 1950)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1946)
- Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1946, 1959)
- Lenin Prize (1967)
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
References
[edit]- ^ Yuzefovich, Victor (1985). Aram Khachaturyan, trans. Nicholas Kournokoff and Vladimir Bobrov. New York, Sphinx Press. p. 74. ISBN 0-943071-00-3.
External links
[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ruben Simonov.
- Hollywood Upclose
- Симонов Рубен Николаевич (Simonov, Ruben Nikolayevich) in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) – via Great Scientific Library
- Simonovs bio (in Russian)
Categories:
- 1899 births
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- Honored Artists of the RSFSR
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- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the Stalin Prize
- Modernist theatre
- Russian drama teachers
- Russian male film actors
- Russian male stage actors
- Russian male voice actors
- Russian opera directors
- Russian people of Armenian descent
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- Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery