Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Personal Info

Birthday

February 8, 1928

Day of Death

2009-12-04

(81 years old)

Place of Birth

Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union

Also Known As

Вячеслав Тихонов

Вячеслав Васильевич Тихонов

Viatcheslav Tikhonov

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He was born in Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow. His mother was a kindergarten teacher and his father an engineer in the local textile factory.

Vyacheslav dreamed of acting but his parents envisioned a different career, and during the war he worked in a munitions factory. After employment as a metal worker, he began [training for an] acting career in 1945 by entering, not without difficulty, the Actors’ Faculty of VGIK. After graduating VGIK with honours in 1950, he began his acting career on stage of Theatre Studio of Film Actor, where he worked for six years.