Ivan Voronov

Ivan Dmitrievich Voronov (19 January 1915, Novy Milet – 6 August 2004, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor. He was a two-time recipient of the Stalin Prize (1946, 1950) and was named People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1962. To international audiences, he is best known for his role in the Soviet–Finnish film Sampo.

Biography Ivan Voronov was born on 19 January 1915 in the village of Novy Milet (now in Moscow Oblast). He studied at the Vsevolod Meyerhold Theatre School and, after his second year, was transferred to the company of the Meyerhold Theatre.

After the theatre was dissolved, Voronov performed at the State Central Theatre for Young Spectators. From 1942 to 1944, he was an actor with the Komsomol Youth Front Theatre under the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation. From 1944 onward, he served at the Central Children's Theatre (later RAMT).

Filmography Dangerous Paths (1954) — Mayboroda In Square 45 (1955) — Saboteur Early Joys (1956) — Polotentsev The Mistress of the Inn (1956) — Count Albafiorita An Unusual Summer (1957) — Polotentsev Stories About Lenin (1957) — Grigory Belov Sampo (1958) — Ilmarinen At the Beginning of the Century (1961) — Gendarmerie Colonel Monday Is a Hard Day (1963) — Yuri Khristoforov Wizard Island (1964) — Foreign Ship Captain Mitya (1967, TV play) — Dudarov Three Days of Viktor Chernyshov (1967) — Episode Knight of Dreams (1968) — Reg Free Hour (1972, TV play) — Potekhin’s Father Pushkin Fairy Tales (1973) — Tsar Treating with Rowanberries (1976, TV play) Ramayana (1976, TV play) — Ravana Colonel Zorin’s Version (1978) — Fyodor Baranko Risk Strategy (1978) — Zhuravlyov Rules of the Game (1978, TV play) — Pudyshev Air Crew (1979) — Sergey Nikolayevich An Ideal Husband (1980) — Mason Appointment (1980) — Yuri Lyamin A Dangerous Age (1981) — Minister From Winter to Winter (1981) — Conference Participant Investigation Led by Experts: He Is Somewhere Here (1982) — Dmitry Savelyevich Mikhail Lomonosov (1986) — Gerhard Friedrich Müller

Theatre Voronov performed extensively at the Russian Academic Youth Theatre, including roles such as:

Lyapkin-Tyapkin — The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol Famusov — Woe from Wit by Alexander Griboyedov Nozdryov — Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Karakol — City of Craftsmen by Tamara Gabbe Jean Valjean — Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Boris Godunov — Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin Prostakov — The Minor by Denis Fonvizin Kochkaryov — Marriage by Nikolai Gogol

Awards and honors Stalin Prize (Second Class, 1946) — for City of Craftsmen Stalin Prize (Third Class, 1950) — for I Want to Go Home Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1952) People's Artist of the RSFSR (1962) Order of the Badge of Honour (1967) Stanislavsky State Prize (1985) — for Les Misérables Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (1997) Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class (2002)