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Aleksandr Gordon(1931-2020)

  • Director
  • Writer
  • Actor
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Aleksandr Gordon in The Killers (1956)
Aleksandr Gordon was born on 26 December 1931 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for The Killers (1956), The Fight in the Blizzard (1978) and Ransom (1986). He was previously married to Marina Tarkovskaya. He died on 7 December 2020.
BornDecember 26, 1931
DiedDecember 7, 2020(88)
BornDecember 26, 1931
DiedDecember 7, 2020(88)
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Andrei Tarkovsky and Aleksandr Gordon in The Killers (1956)
Aleksandr Gordon in The Killers (1956)

Known for

The Killers (1956)
The Killers
6.6
Short
  • Director(as A. Gordon)
  • 1956
The Fight in the Blizzard (1978)
The Fight in the Blizzard
6.8
  • Director
  • 1978
Boris Shcherbakov in Ransom (1986)
Ransom
5.4
  • Director
  • 1986
Double Passing (1984)
Double Passing
5.4
  • Director
  • 1984

Credits

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Director

  • Fitil. Vypusk 1 (1962)
    Fuse
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 1969–1992
  • Soccer Player (1990)
    Soccer Player
    • Director
    • 1990
  • Boris Shcherbakov in Ransom (1986)
    Ransom
    • Director
    • 1986
  • Double Passing (1984)
    Double Passing
    • Director
    • 1984
  • The Man Who Closed the City (1982)
    The Man Who Closed the City
    • Director
    • 1982
  • Scenes from Family Life (1979)
    Scenes from Family Life
    • Director
    • 1979
  • The Fight in the Blizzard (1978)
    The Fight in the Blizzard
    • Director
    • 1978
  • Behind the Wheel, Korobkin
    • Director
    • Short
    • 1973
  • Oleg Borisov and Eduard Martsevich in The Theft (1970)
    The Theft
    • Director
    • 1970
  • Aleksandr Gordon in Sergey Lazo (1967)
    Sergey Lazo
    • Director
    • 1967
  • The Last Night in Paradise
    • Director
    • 1964
  • Stone Kilometers
    • Director
    • 1962
  • There Will Be No Leave Today (1959)
    There Will Be No Leave Today
    • Director (as A. Gordon)
    • TV Movie
    • 1959
  • The Killers (1956)
    The Killers
    • Director (as A. Gordon)
    • Short
    • 1956

Writer

  • Andrei Tarkovsky's Taiga Summer
    • Writer
    • TV Movie
    • 1994
  • There Will Be No Leave Today (1959)
    There Will Be No Leave Today
    • screenplay (as A. Gordon)
    • TV Movie
    • 1959
  • The Killers (1956)
    The Killers
    • screenplay (as A. Gordon)
    • Short
    • 1956

Actor

  • There Will Be No Leave Today (1959)
    There Will Be No Leave Today
    • Military Engineer (uncredited)
    • TV Movie
    • 1959
  • The Killers (1956)
    The Killers
    • George
    • Short
    • 1956

Personal details

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  • Alternative names
    • A. Gordon
  • Born
    • December 26, 1931
    • Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
  • Died
    • December 7, 2020
  • Spouse
    • Marina Tarkovskaya? - December 7, 2020 (his death, 2 children)
  • Children
    • Mikhail Tarkovsky
  • Other works
    He did the Russian dubbing for Andrei Tarkovsky's last two films, Nostalghia (1983) (from Italian) and The Sacrifice (1986) (from Swedish).

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    His wife, writer and linguist Marina Tarkovskaya, is the younger sister of filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. Gordon met her while he was a student at VGIK film school, a classmate of her brother, with whom Gordon collaborated on several student films.
  • Quotes
    [on Mikhail Vartanov's film Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992)] "...this film is a gift, a treasure for the soul. Here the art of cinema reveals its very best qualities..."
  • Nickname
    • Alexander Godron

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