Date of birth: 1912-04-15
Place of birth: St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Yevgeni Samojlov, Евгений Самойлов, Євген Самойлов, Самойлов Євген Валеріанович, Evgeny Samoilov, Yevgeny Samoylov, Jewgeni Walerianowitsch Samoilow

Yevgeny Samoylov (16 April 1912 – 17 February 2006) was a celebrated Soviet and Russian stage and screen actor known for his heroic and charismatic performances from the 1930s through the 1990s. Born in Saint Petersburg, he trained in theatre and was invited to Moscow by Vsevolod Meyerhold, launching a distinguished stage career before becoming a prominent film star. Samoylov won multiple Stalin Prizes and was named People’s Artist of the USSR in 1974. He was also the father of actress Tatiana Samoilova.

1940-01-22
Having tried his hand on the side, the middle peasant chose a collective farm in his native village

1936-01-22
About a merry, smart boy Tom Sawyer, that, testing, as him it seemed to, all facilities, to be good,

1940-07-01

1970-10-26
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocke

1941-08-22
The composition includes two short stories: "The Swineherd" (based on the fairy tale by H.C. Anderse

1951-06-06
Soviet propaganda film in two episodes about Stalin's strong and cruel suppression of the 1919 anti-

1947-01-02
A biography of a famous Russian Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov.

1963-06-06
A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When

1953-03-25
Group of youngsters find a sunken sailboat used by guerrillas during WWII, raise it, repair it, and

1985-09-16
Pensioner organizes a meeting of former classmates fifty years after graduating from school. Many ar

1986-05-01
Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk direc

1958-05-18
Life and times of Aleksa Dundic, a volunteer in the Serb army during WW1, who later became a legend

1955-10-17
The local doctor Yelizaveta Maksimovna is a beautiful woman and a wonderful sympathetic person. She

1951-12-17
Growing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, young artist and poet

1939-05-02
Cheered up by the revolutionary zeal, courage and energy of their leader, Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shc

1944-11-16
Designed as a successor to "They Met In Moscow", with the same director, star and composer, "Six P.

1940-10-07
Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her ed

1957-12-18
A young couple is traveling to the Black Sea with their car planning to have a wedding on the way.

1936-10-20
A supposedly ordinary woman’s personal triumph and tragedy is explored in Igor Savchenko’s 1936 Slu

1946-08-26
A story about the boys and their life during the WWII. Based on Lev Kassil book.

1944-02-14
The Armenian national hero, David Bek, leads a major Armenian uprising against Safavid Persia in the

1955-02-22
Heroes of Shipka was the first solo effort for Soviet director Sergei Vasilyev, who had previously c

1960-05-23
Young engineer Pavel Kaurov goes to his first destination — to the port city of Sibirsk. He is appoi

1943-03-08
The film is about the struggle of Czechoslovak patriots against the Nazi invaders during the years o

1971-03-20
The film consists of several novels reproducing the most vivid pages of the biography of the first C

1947-09-10

1949-02-25
The movie tells about the life of Soviet scientists. Professor Dobrotvorsky, together with his colle

1955-06-20
1920. Western countries are trying to use the Bukhara khanate — a former protectorate of tsarist Rus

1947-04-15
In the family of the driver Skvortsov on one of the outskirts of Moscow growing son Andrew, the futu

1991-11-14
Venice, eighteenth century. The young Rosanna, widowed on her wedding day, discovers that she is the

1975-11-05
In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of

1972-10-16
Based on the novel by Natan Rybak “Soldiers Without Uniforms”. Director of a research institute eng

1964-12-07
Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Ukrai

1944-12-28
The plot is built around two charming sisters — a strict, wayward Galina, an assistant professor of

1962-12-16

1956-10-01
In the middle of the 17th century, Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks rose up to fight against the Poli

1960-04-19
Siberia, 1916-1917. Bolshevik Pyotr Sapozhkov is engaged in revolutionary propaganda and agitation i

1971-04-12
1917. The eve of the October Revolution. Having returned to St. Petersburg from exile, the Bolshevik

1943-08-15
A Georgian warrior witnesses the heroic death of a local communist girl in the battle for one of the

1991-08-10
An American priest, Reverend Lawrence Shannon, is defrocked and travels to Mexico, where he becomes

1980-05-07
Genoa, 1547. Count Fiesco di Lavagna is to lead an uprising against the ruler of Genoa, Count Doria.

1981-09-11
Trying to stop the fratricidal bloodshed started by his father - John the Terrible, Tsar Fyodor gave