Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 16, 1934
Place of Birth
Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Also Known As
- Vasily Lanovoy
- Vasiliy Lanovoy
- Василий Лановой
- В. Лановой
- Vasily Semyonovich Lanovoy
Vasili Lanovoy
Biography
Lanovoy came to prominence through playing bold, dashing characters, combining heroic bravado with a sensitivity typical of Russian heroes, a tendency evident in many of his early features, however, he is best known for his roles in iconic 1970s World War II-themed films. In 2000s, Lanovoy appeared primarily in the roles of Soviet-era party bosses, such as Yuri Andropov in the 2005 TV film Brezhnev. In 2013, he played the role of Cardinal Richelieu in Russian movie The Three Musketeers.
Known For - Movies
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
as Anatol
War and Peace
as Anatol Kuragin
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
as Anatol
Anna Karenina
as Vronsky
Officers
as Ivan Varavva
Three Hundred Years Ago...
as lieutenant Orzhelskiy
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
as Anatol
Anna and Commander
as Komandor
The Man with the Gun
A Thousand Souls
as Калинович
Known For - TV Shows
Seventeen Moments of Spring
as Karl Wolf - SS Obergruppenfuehrer
Офицеры
as Алексей Фёдорович Осоргин (генерал, отец Егора)
Soldiers of Freedom
as Andrei Grechko
Три мушкетёра
as Кардинал Ришелье
Picture
as Дмитрий Иванович Уваров
The Days of the Turbins
as Shervinsky
The Strategy of Victory
as читает советские документы
Главное с Ольгой Беловой
as Народный артист СССР
Легенды цирка с Эдгардом Запашным
as Self - актер, Народный артист СССР
Брежнев
as Юрий Андропов