Alexey Gribov starred in over 60 movies and was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1948, Hero of Socialist Labour in 1972 and awarded four Stalin Prizes.
14 Facts About Alexey Gribov
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Alexey Gribov's mother worked at the tobacco manufacturing company; she died from tuberculosis when he was four years old.
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Alexey Gribov's paternal grandfather was a serf who moved to Moscow from the Lotoshino volost following the Emancipation reform of 1861 and became a machinist.
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Alexey Gribov's father Nikolai Mikhailovich Gribov was a driver who escorted Moscow elite such as Nikolai von Meck; after his wife's death he married another woman who gave birth to three children, and in 1916 left for the frontline.
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Alexey Gribov had to become a factory worker to feed the family.
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Alexey Gribov's acting skills were highly regarded by Konstantin Stanislavski.
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Alexey Gribov was the first MAT actor to portray Vladimir Lenin in Nikolai Pogodin's play The Kremlin Chimes for which he received his first Stalin Prize.
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Alexey Gribov did a lot of voice acting at Soyuzmultfilm.
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Alexey Gribov taught acting at the Moscow Art Theatre School, gaining a title of professor in 1970.
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Alexey Gribov had to learn to talk and walk again and finally started teaching students, but his health declined.
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Alexey Gribov died in 1977 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
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Alexey Gribov's last wife Natalia Iosifovna Valandina was a director's assistant at Mosfilm, 26 years younger than him.
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Alexey Gribov started dating her while still married to Apin.
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Alexey Gribov later adopted her two daughters from two previous husbands.