This amazing actor could be seen in almost all the famous and popular paintings of the Soviet period. He is the master of the episode and supporting role. His usual image is a reliable and loyal friend of an on-screen movie hero, without whose presence the leading actor would not be able to realize his image most vividly.
Biography
Actor Pavlov Alexander Pavlovich - a man whose whole life is connected with the theater. Theater stages are his home, and performances are his life. He was born in severe front-line time on August 5, 1942 in Moscow, which is gradually returning to peaceful life. A few months before the birth of Alexander, the fascist invaders were driven back from the capital. Enemy air strikes could no longer inflict the previous destruction and did not conceal the former mortal danger. The roar of air raid became quite rare and did not disturb the sleep of little Sasha.
However, the worst thing of that time was hunger. He also touched the Pavlov family, which was forced, together with many residents of the city, to gardening in order to survive.
Children and teenagers
The biography of Pavlov Alexander Pavlovich was no different from the lives of other children born during the war. He did not see the Salute of Victory, because on this happy day he was not even three years old.
Around was in full swing reconstruction of Moscow. The city came to life, the streets were filled with transport, but it was still difficult with housing, food and clothes. The Khrushchevs were just starting to build, and Alexander, along with his family, like most of his peers, huddled in one of the communal apartments. His childhood and youth passed mostly on the street. He spent all days with the guys in the yard, and for the most part, only the school prevented their hooligan pastime.
Alexander Pavlovich Pavlov studied well, but his favorite lesson from childhood was physical education. He grew up a strong and athletic youth with the figure of a fighter and subsequently carried his passion for sports through his whole life. His other passion in those years was a school of amateur activity, in which he lost all his free time from sports. And even then he decided to become an artist.
Theatre
After graduating from school in 1960, Alexander worked for some time at one of the enterprises in Moscow. Time was still difficult, it was necessary to somehow help in the family.
His dream of becoming an artist began to come true only in 1964, when he became a student of the Higher Theater School named after B.V. Shchukin. After graduating from college in 1968, Alexander Pavlovich Pavlov was enrolled in the troupe of the State Academic Theater named after Evgeny Vakhtangov, to whom he remained faithful his whole life.
In the photo below - the actor in the film play "Anthony and Cleopatra", 1980.
For half a century of work at the Vakhtangov Theater, the actor masterfully and reliably performed over fifty roles in such performances as "The Millionaire", "Konarmia", "Tradesman in the Nobility", "Memory of the Heart", "Artem", "The Woman Behind the Green Door" , “Puss in Boots”, “Princess Turandot”, “Front”, “Squadron Death”, “Stepan Razin”, “Little Tragedies”, “Examiner”, “Masquerade”, “Demons” and many others.
Movie
Films of Pavlov Alexander Pavlovich are loved by many viewers. Over his career, more than sixty of them left.
Cinema came to his biography in 1964, when he was still a young twenty-two-year-old student at the Shchukin Theater School. His debut work was the role in the film "The Light of a Distant Star." A textured and characteristic actor was noticed. In the next forty-four years of work in the cinema, Alexander Pavlovich could be seen in almost all the most popular paintings of his time.
His first significant and striking work can be called the role of Dmitry Razumikhin, a friend of Raskolnikov, the protagonist of the drama Crime and Punishment, released in 1969 (pictured below).
In the years 1974-1977, Pavlov was involved in the well-known multi-part drama television film "Walking through the agony", in which he brilliantly played the role of a Chekist. Alexander Pavlovich’s partners in the film included such famous actors as Yuri Solomin, Irina Alferova, Svetlana Penkina, Mikhail Nozhkin and Mikhail Kozakov.
In the legendary two-part movie novel "The Crew", produced in 1979, beloved by the audience for almost forty years, Alexander Pavlovich Pavlov played the role of the navigator of a passenger airliner. This tape was dedicated to the heroic feat of Soviet pilots and, despite a very low budget, for several decades became the best domestic disaster film.
A noticeable and characteristic work was his next role in the famous drama "Guys!", Released three years later. In it, Alexander Pavlovich played a childhood friend of the protagonist. This truly great film became the leader of the 1982 Soviet film distribution.
The actor also starred in such popular films as the political detective "TASS is authorized to declare ...", the comedies "Do not Go, Girls, Marry" and "A Man from Kapucin Boulevard", as well as the 1989 family drama "They Did Not Match Characters".
One of his last movie roles was his participation in the criminal television series Web and Heavy Sand, which were released in 2007.
Actor today
Now actor Alexander Pavlovich Pavlov, who is already seventy-six years old, is still in service and serves his native Vakhtangov Theater. Among his works are such modern theater productions as Masquerade, Demons, Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro and many others.
In the photo - Alexander Pavlov at the Crystal Turandot award ceremony.
He reads poetry and performs romances exceptionally well, performs solo concerts and is a regular member of the jury of the annual All-Russian contest of romance performers.
He is married, he has a daughter and a son, who gave him three grandchildren, whom he loves.
Despite his age, he is still tall, slim and strong.
Alexander Pavlovich does not regret at all that he connected his life with the art of theater and cinema. He is still ready for the embodiment of any images.