Born February 8, 1928 in a small town Pavlovsky Posad, Moscow Province.
Parents actor father – Basil Romanovich worked in a factory, and mother – Valentina V. was a teacher in a factory kindergarten.
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, in 1941, the school where he studied Tikhonov, housed a military hospital. Vyacheslav the age of 13 went to a trade school, where I studied at the turner. Then he entered the military factory where he worked on received specialty. In the evenings after work he walked with friends in the cinema "Vulcan" to watch the heroic paintings about Chapaeva, Alexander Nevsky.
Tikhonov secret from his parents dreamed of a career film star, and they regarded him as an engineer or agronomist. In 1944 Vyacheslav entered the zero-rate auto mechanical institute.
Immediately after the war summer of 1945 Tikhonov decided to fulfill his cherished dream and went to Moscow to enter the Film Institute. However, examinations Vyacheslav failed miserably, but the teacher selection committee Boris Bibikov sorry young man and took on its faculty. Thus, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, the actor became a student of the Faculty of VGIK.
In 1950, Tikhonov graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography with honors (class of Professor BV Bibikova and OI Pyzhov).
From 1950 – Actor's Studio Theatre actor.
From 1957 – actor studio named after Maxim Gorky.
For the first time the actor saw himself on screen as a second-year student, when the film was released in theaters Sergei Gerasimov, "Young Guard" (1948), where he played a small role of Volodya Osmuhina. The success of the picture in those early postwar years was simply deafening.
However, the first popular Tikhonov yielded no heroic role, but a simple country boy from the movie Matthew Morozov, Stanislav Rostotsky "It was in Penkovo" (1957), where the actor has resorted to the lyric-comic colors, displaying his character beyond the positive or negative character. Shape Vyacheslav Tikhonov is definitely not in keeping with the role of the tractor, but the audience took Matthew Morozov. The audience felt that the true hero of the drama was not to unhappy love and the domestic non-conformity with the circumstances of life. The role of the tractor brought actor Matthew Morozov viewer acceptance, and most importantly – has found its relevance as an artist that gives his characters for the new movie of the year property: inconspicuous, quiet romanticism in everyday, endless daily activities. Not surprisingly, this particular role the actor believes his best work in film.
Tikhonov was a landmark for the role of Prince Andrei's in the film by Sergei Bondarchuk's "War and Peace" (1967). In this role try other actors. Sergei Fedorovich chose He thinks, but he simultaneously received an offer from Gregory Kozintsev play in Hamlet, and preferred it.
The candidacy of Vyacheslav Tikhonov suggested SF Bondarchuk Culture Minister Catherine Furtseva. The process of approval for the role was not easy, sample the actor did not like Bondarchuk. Nevertheless, the role was given to it Tikhonov.
The epic "War and Peace" was shot four years. This film received many awards, including an Oscar (1968). Ludmila Saveliev, who played Natasha Rostov, and Vyacheslav Tikhonov, who performed the role of Andrei's, as voted by the magazine "Soviet screen" were the best actor of 1967.
After such a difficult and exhausting role Vyacheslav Melnikov brilliantly played by teachers in the movie, SI Rostotsky "We'll Live Till Monday" (1968). Ilya Melnikov was the ideal hero (in the best sense of the word), and even – a role model.
But the most "star" role – a Soviet spy Isaeva – Stirlitz, Vyacheslav Tikhonov played in the TV series "Seventeen Moments of Spring" (1973).
Viacheslav created a lively, complex character. The actor was able to show a rich inner life of character, precision and conciseness of gestures and facial expressions, subtle psychology, playing the subtext, the subtle changes of mood, ability to "hold" large plans, in-depth understanding of the nature of acting in a movie.The image was created Schtirlitz Tikhonov so significantly that the reality of its existence believe millions of viewers.
People's Artist of the USSR (08/13/1974).
One of the most significant roles, the actor was working in the film of Sergei Bondarchuk on the novel by Mikhail Sholokhov, "They Fought for Their Country" (1975). Tikhonov played a simple soldier Nikolai Streltsov.
The role of the writer Ivan Ivanovich, played by an actor in the movie "White Bim Black Ear (1977), brought him a new wave of popularity. In 1978 the film was nominated for an Oscar as best foreign language film.
A brave heroic type actor has been demanded by the Soviet cinema.
In the serial "TASS is authorized to declare …" (1984) Tikhonov played the role of a KGB general Konstantin Ivanovich Konstantinov.
But director Mark Zakharov, the actor was to play in his film-parable "Kill the Dragon" (1988) on the play by Eugene Schwartz "Dragon". Archivist of Charlemagne was played brilliantly.
Life.
The first wife of Vyacheslav Tikhonov became classmate RSIC Nonna V. Mordyukov (1925-2008). They were married shortly after the birth of his son Vladimir, who was born on February 28, 1950. That summer, young parents graduated, and had a small child to move from place to place. They had a long time to wander on to friends, dormitories, a communal, barracks – they went through all the difficulties, until they finally got their home. This star union of two talented actors lasted 13 years and broke up immediately after the death of the mother Mordyukova.
The fate of her only son Vladimir was tragic: went wrong in his private life (twice married sons from different marriages: Basil and Vladimir) and acting career. For forty years he managed to move two strokes. The doctor then warned that the third can be fatal. Well, it happened. Vladimir died in the summer of 1990 from acute cardiac disease (coronary disease), caused by years of alcohol abuse and drugs. The loss of her beloved son was the biggest tragedy in the life Tikhonov and Mordyukova.
In 1968, Viacheslav married Tamara (she took her husband's surname), a translator with the French, the employee "Soveksportfilma. They met while working on the movie sound "Man and Woman. July 5, 1969 had a daughter Anna, who like his father, in the future become an actress. In 2005 she gave her father of twin grandsons George and Slava.
Last time, almost year-round Tikhonov lived at his dacha at Nikolina Gora near Moscow.
The actor was an avid football and hockey fan, a fan of the team Spartak. Uvlekaelsya winter fishing. His favorite work was the novel LN Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and favorite movie – "Big Life" by Peter Aleinikov.
His last work in the cinema for Vyacheslav Vasilyevich was the role of Vsevolod Konstantinovich in Nikita Mikhalkov's film "Burnt by the Sun-2". Entry screens movie actor has never got … November 28, 2009, he was hospitalized in intensive care unit of the Central Clinical Hospital with myocardial infarction. Dec. 1 he was urgently carried out an operation, because there were complications. The actor was under the constant supervision of doctors, but his condition remained grave.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov, died on Friday, December 4, 2009 at 15:35 Moscow time in the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. He was buried a great actor on December 8 in the Novodevichy cemetery capital (station number 10, number № 10, № 5 position), next to the graves of artists Oleg Jankowski, George and Clara Zhzhenov onion.
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On the work and life of the actor was filmed several documenta
ries:
– Profession – actor (1979, directed by Stanislav Rostotsky).
– "Moments Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1998, TV Time.4 ", directed by Yuri Malyugin).
– "Seventeen Moments of Glory" (2003, TV channel "TVS", directed by Svetlana Nikolaeva, producer Anna Tikhonova).
– "The Last Hero outgoing era" (2006, TV channel "Russia", directed by Sergei Sadovsky).
– "The air of inspiration" (2008, TV-Center, directed by Elena Nikolaeva, producer Anna Tikhonova, production studio film actor ").
– "On a visit to Vyacheslav Tikhonov," (premiered on Feb. 9, 2008, Channel One, directed by Irina Golubeva).
– "Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Stirlitz forever" (premiere Jan. 14, 2010 on TV channel "Inter", directed by Elena Yelagina, production studio "07 Production", Ukraine).
theatrical works
Studio Theatre actor:
* "Ordinary Miracle" by Evgeny Shvarts – Bear.
prizes and awards
* State Prize (1970, for participation in the film "We'll Live Till Monday").
* State Prize of the RSFSR (1976, for participation in the TV series "Seventeen Moments of Spring").
* Prize KGB (1978, for participation in the TV series "Seventeen Moments of Spring").
* Recipient of the Lenin Prize (1980, for participation in the movie "White Bim Black Ear").
* Hero of Socialist Labor (June 28, 1982).
* In 1993, the II International Festival "Golden Knight" to Vyacheslav Tikhonov, awarded the prize for outstanding contribution to the Slavic Cinema.
* Order of Merit »IV degree (August 5, 1995) – for services to the state and many years of fruitful work in the field of arts and culture.
* Order of Merit »III degree (February 8, 2003) – for his great contribution to the development of national cinema.
* Order of Honor (8 February 2008) – for his great contribution to the development of national cinema and multi-year artistic career.
* Order of Lenin (June 28, 1982).
* Order of the October Revolution (February 7, 1978).
* Order of the Badge of Honor ".
* Award of the Government of the Russian Federation (2008).
* Medal for military cooperation "(FSB) (2003).
* Medal of Merit (SVR) (2003).
* Gold mark obschestvennnoy veterans' organizations counterintelligence "Vetkon.
* Russian Federal Security Service Award for the best role of security officers in the national cinema (posthumously) (2009).