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.
Filmography, selected
1960s
- 1965Metel (Snow Storm)
- 1965Ordinary Miracle
- 1967The Tale of Tsar SaltanTsarevich Gvidon. Over 26 million tickets sold in the USSR.
- 1967The Red Mantle (Hagbard and Signe)Hagbard. Directed by Gabriel Axel in Denmark. In competition at Cannes.
- 1967The Suitors from Zarechenskoye
- 1968Cause of Death
- 1968Love, Not Love
- 1969The Battle of NeretvaNikola. With Yul Brynner and Orson Welles. Nominated for an Oscar.
1970s
- 1970WaterlooTomlinson. Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk.
- 1971Mission in Kabul
- 1971Gentlemen of FortuneLieutenant Vladimir Slavin, a policeman posing as a taxi driver.
- 1972The Lion's Grave
- 1972Train Stop 2 Minutes
- 1973The Headless HorsemanMorris Gerald. The first western produced in the Soviet Union.
- 1974Moscow, My LoveOpposite Komaki Kurihara. Directed by Aleksandr Mitta.
1980s
- 1982A Cry of Silence
- 1982The Circus Princess
- 1982Urgent, Secret, Gubcheka
- 1983The Demidovs
- 1985The Secret of the Black Dragon
- 1988Red HeatYuri Ogarkov. With Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- 1989Wild OrchidWith Mickey Rourke.
1990s and after
- 1994Love Affair
- 1995The Immortals
- 1998Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies
- 2000Thirteen DaysValerian Zorin, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations.
- 2002Monkey Love
- 2015Time Within TimeThe voice of Andrei Tarkovsky, in a documentary.