Ivan Ryzhov

Ivan Petrovich Ryzhov (; 25 January 1913, Zelyonaya Sloboda, Bronnitsky Uyezd, Moscow Governorate — 15 March 2004, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Biography Ryzhov was born on 25 January 1913 in the village of Zelyonaya Sloboda, in the Bronnitsky Uyezd of the Moscow Governorate of the Russian Empire. In 1935, he graduated from the School of the Moscow Theater of the Revolution and became an actor of the theater.

He made his film debut in the role of Captain Soroka in the Kubans.

He played the main role in the first Soviet commercial.

Ivan Ryzhov died on the morning of 15 March 2004 in a Moscow hospital. According to his daughter, it happened due to negligence of the medical staff: the actor had fallen and cut his hand. The funeral service took place not in the House of Cinema, as has happened with other famous actors, but in a small temple at Botkin Hospital, where he had died. The memorial was attended by relatives and artists.

He was buried at Perepechinskoe Cemetery.

Awards Honored Artist of the RSFSR (4 September 1974) People's Artist of the RSFSR (25 July 1980)

Select filmography 1943 — We from the Urals as Ivan Dmitrievich 1944 — Kashchey the Immortal as naughty boy 1947 — Ballad of Siberia as on duty at the airport and lumberjacks 1953 — Hostile Whirlwinds as soldier 1956 — Ilya Muromets as head of horse guards 1956 — A Weary Road as gendarme 1957 — It Happened in Penkovo as farmer 1958 — And Quiet Flows the Don as head of horse guards 1959 — Mumu as Gavrila 1959 — Tavriya as Mokeich 1961 — Yevdokiya as Ivan Yegorovich Shestyorkin 1964 — Come Here, Mukhtar! as militia captain 1964 — There Is Such a Lad as head of tank farms 1964 — Tale About the Lost Time as foreman at a construction site 1966 — Andrei Rublev as old master (voice) 1967 — Stewardess as passengers with baby toys 1970 — Crime and Punishment as Tit Vasilievich 1972 — Taming of the Fire as Alekseich 1972 — Big School-Break as head of the police station 1972 — Ilf and Petrov Rode a Tram as Chief Editor 1972 — Chipollino as Master Raisin (voice) 1973 — Hopelessly Lost as Boggs 1973 — The Red Snowball Tree as Fyodor 1973 — Incorrigible Liar as senior master 1974 — A Lover's Romance as Vasily Vasilievich 1976 — How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor as Gavrilo Afanasievich Rtishchev 1976 — The Days of the Turbins as footman Fyodor 1977 — White Bim Black Ear as Pal Titych, house manager 1983 — Quarantine as Petrovich 1988 — Tree Sticks! as granddad 1994 — Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin as Shapkin 1995 — Heads and Tails as Timofeich