Vsevolod Sanayev

Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanayev (; 25 February 1912, Tula – 27 January 1996, Moscow) was a Soviet film and stage actor popular in the 1960s–1970s. Sanayev, a Moscow Art Theatre (and later Mossovet Theatre) actor, was honored in 1969 with the People's Artist of the USSR title; among his other accolades are the Order of Lenin and the Order of the October Revolution (1981).

Biography Vsevolod Sanayev was born in Tula. From 1926 to 1930 he worked as a bayan technician at the Tula factory of musical instruments. After a short stint at a local theatre, in 1931 he was invited to join the Tula-based Gorky Theatre of Drama and Comedy and soon enrolled in the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. After the graduation in 1937 he joined the Moscow Art Theatre troupe. In 1938, he debuted on screen in the film Volga-Volga (where he had two minor roles), and in 1940 enjoyed his first success as Dobryakov in the film The Girl I Love. In 1943, Sanayev joined the Mossovet Theatre and in 1952 moved to the Moscow Art Theatre. His grandson Pavel Sanayev is an actor, scriptwriter, theatre director and playwright. His acclaimed 1995 autobiographical play Bury Me Under a Baseboard told the harrowing story of his life with a tyrannous grandmother, whom his mother left him with after her marriage.

Filmography

Volga-Volga (1938) as bearded lumberjack; member of the symphony orchestra (dual role) If War Comes Tomorrow (1939) as paratrooper A Girl with a Temper (1939) as Surkov, militia officer The Youth of Commanders (1939) as Colonel Grishayev The Beloved as Vasiliy Dobryakov, a working man Ivan Fyodorov, The Pioneer Bookprinter (1941) as Petr Timofeev, Ivan's assistant Four Hearts (1945) as Red Army fighter Yeremeev Ivan Nikulin (1945) as Alyosha In the Mountains of Yugoslavia (1947) as Alexey Gubanov Diamonds (1947) as geologist Sergey Nesterov Pages of Life (1948) as radio announcer (uncredited) They've Got Their Motherland (1950) as Sorokin Zhukovsky (1950) as student (uncredited) In Steppe (1951, short) as Partkom secretary Tuzhikov The Village Doctor (1951) as Nikolay Korotkov The Return of Vasily Bortnikov (1953) as Kantaurov, the Telephone station director Lawlessness (1954, short) as Yermolai, dustman The First Echelon (Pervy eshelon, 1956) as sovkhoz director Dontsov Different Fortunes (1956) as Zhukov, the Party official Polyushko-pole (1956) as telephone station director Kholin Stories About Lenin (1957) as Emelyyanov The Swallow (1957) as Melgunov Pages of the Past (1957) as Skvortsov Esimese järgu kapten (1958) as sailor (voice) Upon the Path of War (Na dorogakh voyny, 1959) as Uvarov In the Still of the Steppe (1959) as Vetrov The Unpaid Debt (1959) as Aleksey Okunchikov Still They Are People (1959) as soldier The Koltsov Song (1959) as Koltsov's father Three Times Resurrected (1960) as Starodub Five Days, Five Nights (1961) as Sergeant-major Kozlov On the Road (1961) as the old man Adult Children (1961) as Vasily Vasilyevich An Optimistic Tragedy (Optimisticheskaya tragediya, 1963) - Siply [the Husky-voiced] It Happened at the Police Station (1963) as Major Sazonov Small Green Light (1964) as the pensioner The Big Ore (1964) as Matsuev The Meeting at the Crossover (1964) as kolkhoz chairman The Roll-call (1966) as Varentsov Your Son and Brother (1966) as Voyevodin Not a Day Without an Adventure (1967) as old man Danilyuk In the Trap (1967) as Kovacs Moscow is Behind Our Backs (1968) as General Ivan Panfilov Just for Fun (1968) as Gomozov Used Cartridge Cases (1968) as father Liberation (1968) as Colonel Lukin The Major Witness (1969) as uncle I Am His Bride (1969) as Mitrokhin The Kremlin Chime (1970) as the old worker Strange People (1970) as Matvey Ryazantsev The Stolen Train (1971) as General Ivan Vasylievich The Return of Saint Luke (1971) as Colonel Zorin Not a Day Without Adventures (1971) as Danilyuk Happy Go Lucky (1972) as Professor Sergey Fyodorovich Eolomea (East Germany, 1972) as Kun Nyurka's Life (1972) as Boris Gavrilovich The Black Prince (1973) as Colonel Zorin Here's Our Home (1973) as Alexander Pluzhin There, Over the Horizon (1975) as the General constructor The Closeness of Distant Things (1976) as Pogodin The Moscow Time (1976) as Nazar Lukich Grigorenko And Other Officials (1976) as Astakhov The Long Days' Month (1978, TV Movie) as Pavel Stepanovich The Colonel Zorin's Hypothesis (1979) as Colonel Zorin Teheran 43 (1981) as Innkeeper (uncredited) The Unwelcome Friend (1981) as Shlepyanov From Winter Till Winter (1981) as the Minister Private Life (1982) Bit part (uncredited) The Mystery of the Blackbirds (1982) as Mister George Forteskew White Dew (1982) as Fedos Khodas From Evening Till Noon (1982) as writer Andray Zharkov Secret of the Black Birds (1983) as George Fortescue Dead Souls (1984, TV Mini-Series) as the Court chairman The Hope and the Stand-by (1985) as Kirill Rotov In Bad Weather (1986) as Strogov The Apellation (1987) as Mironov Forgotten Melody for a Flute (1987) as Yaroslav Stepanovich What a Mess! (1995) as the music fan (final film role)