The Headless Horseman, on horseback
The Headless Horseman, on horseback

His films

From Soviet hits to Hollywood

He worked in more than 50 films on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

A prince, a saga hero, a cowboy

In Moscow he played a fairy-tale prince, a Scandinavian saga hero, a cowboy and a policeman in disguise. Soviet actors were rarely allowed to work abroad, and he still made films in Denmark and Yugoslavia.

After 1985 he started again in America, in smaller parts, and appeared in The West Wing and Alias.

The years below are the ones the memoir gives.

Waterloo, a still
Waterloo, a still
Waterloo, a still
Waterloo, a still

A prince, a saga hero, a cowboy

In Moscow he played a fairy-tale prince, a Scandinavian saga hero, a cowboy and a policeman in disguise. Soviet actors were rarely allowed to work abroad, and he still made films in Denmark and Yugoslavia.

After 1985 he started again in America, in smaller parts, and appeared in The West Wing and Alias.

The years below are the ones the memoir gives.

Filmography, selected

The Red Mantle (Hagbard and Signe)

1967

The Red Mantle (Hagbard and Signe)

The Red Mantle (Hagbard and Signe)

1970

Waterloo

The Red Mantle (Hagbard and Signe)

1973

The Headless Horseman

The Red Mantle (Hagbard and Signe)

1974

Moscow, My Love

1960s

1965

Metel (Snow Storm)

1965

Ordinary Miracle

1967

The Tale of Tsar Saltan

Tsarevich Gvidon. Over 26 million tickets sold in the USSR.

1967

The Red Mantle (Hagbard and Signe)

Hagbard. Directed by Gabriel Axel in Denmark. In competition at Cannes.

1967

The Suitors from Zarechenskoye

1968

Cause of Death

1968

Love, Not Love

1969

The Battle of Neretva

Nikola. With Yul Brynner and Orson Welles. Nominated for an Oscar.

1970s

1970

Waterloo

Tomlinson. Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk.

1971

Mission in Kabul

1971

Gentlemen of Fortune

Lieutenant Vladimir Slavin, a policeman posing as a taxi driver.

1972

The Lion's Grave

1972

Train Stop 2 Minutes

1973

The Headless Horseman

Morris Gerald. The first western produced in the Soviet Union.

1974

Moscow, My Love

Opposite Komaki Kurihara. Directed by Aleksandr Mitta.

1980s

1982

A Cry of Silence

1982

The Circus Princess

1982

Urgent, Secret, Gubcheka

1983

The Demidovs

1985

The Secret of the Black Dragon

1988

Red Heat

Yuri Ogarkov. With Arnold Schwarzenegger.

1989

Wild Orchid

With Mickey Rourke.

1990s and after

1994

Love Affair

1995

The Immortals

1998

Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies

2000

Thirteen Days

Valerian Zorin, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations.

2002

Monkey Love

2015

Time Within Time

The voice of Andrei Tarkovsky, in a documentary.

Oleg Vidov

1943 to 2017

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