ACTOR

Yevgeny Leonov

1926 - 1994

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Yevgeny Pavlovich Leonov (Russian: Евгений Павлович Леонов; 2 September 1926 – 29 January 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actor who played main parts in several of the most famous Soviet films, such as Gentlemen of Fortune, Mimino and Striped Trip. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yevgeny Leonov has received more than 161,241 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Yevgeny Leonov is the 1,169th most popular actor (down from 1,135th in 2019), the 579th most popular biography from Russia (down from 577th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Actor.

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  • 160k

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  • 57.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Yevgeny Leonov ranks 1,169 out of 13,578. Before him are James Avery, Oleg Yankovsky, Gunnel Lindblom, Jennifer Garner, François Périer, and Thomas Mitchell. After him are Olympia Dukakis, Jessica Alba, Suzanne Somers, Arthur Kennedy, Katharine Ross, and Teri Hatcher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Yevgeny Leonov ranks 119. Before him are Irene Camber, Jimmy Savile, Henry Molaison, Sydney Chaplin, Galina Vishnevskaya, and Hans Werner Henze. After him are Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, Kim Jong-pil, Cloris Leachman, Muhammad al-Badr, Estanislau Basora, and Teddy Scholten. Among people deceased in 1994, Yevgeny Leonov ranks 85. Before him are Kuvempu, Federica Montseny, Zein Al-Sharaf Talal, Tengiz Abuladze, Jean Borotra, and Branko Mikulić. After him are Luis Ocaña, Nikolai Ogarkov, Jack Unterweger, Max Morlock, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, and James Clavell.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yevgeny Leonov ranks 579 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Alexander Pokryshkin (1913), Galina Vishnevskaya (1926), Fedor Tokarev (1871), Boris Kustodiev (1878), and Zeki Velidi Togan (1890). After him are Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (1832), Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (1864), Jean Béraud (1849), Nikolai Ogarkov (1917), Anund Gårdske (1004), and Sergei Belov (1944).

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Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Yevgeny Leonov ranks 11. Before him are Sacha Guitry (1885), Yuri Nikulin (1921), Olga Knipper (1868), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928), Yury Solomin (1935), and Lyubov Orlova (1902). After him are Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925), George Sanders (1906), Oleg Popov (1930), Inna Churikova (1943), Andrei Mironov (1941), and Mikhail Ulyanov (1927).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Vasya Vekshin
Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life. From "fire yes into the fire" a young reconnaissance commander Volodya Sharapov falls, having come to the MUR for distribution, to the department for combating banditry. In the city the Black Cat gang rages, terrifying Muscovites. Captain Gleb Zheglov enters the fray with the bandits, for whom Sharapov soon becomes his right hand.
Nov 11th 19798.196 / 10
Siberiade
Alesha Ustyuzhanin
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.
Nov 28th 19797.2 / 10
I Don't Want to Get Married
Aleksandr Tsvetov
Principal bachelor, master of plastic surgery under rather strange circumstances, meets with the long-nosed militiaman. Having made her an operation, he, like Pygmalion, who created Galatea, falls in love with the beautiful creation of his hands and declares: "I want to marry you!".
Jan 3rd 19935.7 / 10