Zalman Afroimovich Khrapinovich, known by the pseudonym Zinovy Yefimovich Gerdt, was a Soviet and Russian actor.
19 Facts About Zinovy Gerdt
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Zinovy Gerdt was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1990.
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Zinovy Gerdt's father died quite early, his mother stayed with four children: two boys and two girls, of which Zinovy was the youngest.
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From a young age, Zinovy Gerdt was fond of reading and writing poetry.
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At 15, Zinovy Gerdt graduated from a vocational school affiliated with the Valerian Kuybyshev Electrical Plant.
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Since 1937, Zinovy Gerdt worked in the Puppet Theater at the Moscow House of Pioneers.
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Zinovy Gerdt volunteered to the front when World War II began.
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Zinovy Gerdt was enlisted as a senior lieutenant of a field engineering division and suffered a serious leg wound near Belgorod in February 1943.
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Zinovy Gerdt voiced many characters, the most famous one was the entertainer in An Unusual Concert.
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Zinovy Gerdt performed the role of the entertainer in different countries using the local language and was so convincing that the audiences always believed that the actor knew their language fluently: Gerdt perfectly mastered the art of onomatopoeia.
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Zinovy Gerdt played at the Sovremennik Theatre in the play The Monument by Enn Vetemaa staged by Valery Fokin.
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Zinovy Gerdt worked in dubbing many foreign films for Soviet release.
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Zinovy Gerdt had his cinematic debut in 1958 in an episodic role in the film Man from Planet Earth.
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Zinovy Gerdt is known primarily as a master of episodic, mostly comedic roles.
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Zinovy Gerdt was the first host of one of the most popular Soviet television programs Kinopanorama, the first season of which was aired in 1962.
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Zinovy Gerdt performed as a screenwriter of the musical I Will Not Be Any More.
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Zinovy Gerdt was buried at the Kuntsevo Cemetery in Moscow.
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Zinovy Gerdt was an interpreter from Arabic, who was assigned to help the theater.
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In Kyiv, at the intersection of Proreznaya and Khreshchatyk streets, in 1998 a monument to Panikovsky was erected, the prototype of the monument was Zinovy Gerdt, who played the role of Panikovsky in the adaptation of the novel.