Vladimir Mikhailovich Zeldin (Russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Зе́льдин; born February 10, 1915) is a Russian theatre and cinema actor. Zeldin was born in the town of Kozlov (now Michurinsk). In 1935 he graduated from the theatre college at the Mossovet Theatre and became its actor. For over 60 years he has been working in the Russian Army Theatre, Moscow.Zeldin became an all-Union celebrity in 1941 starring in the comedy Svinarka i pastukh. His other most famous works as a film actor include Skazanie o zemle sibirskoy (1947), Uchitel’ tantsev (1952), Karnavalnaya noch (1956), Dyadya Vanya (1970) and Desyat negrityat (1987).In February 2005 Zeldin celebrated his 90th birthday with the premiere of the musical Man of La Mancha (translated into Russian) where he still stars both as Don Quixote and Miguel de Cervantes.He is, as of 2014, the oldest living People's Artist of the USSR.
Vladimir Zeldin, who has been described as the world's oldest working actor. He was 101 at his death in 2016. The actor shot to stardom with the role of a shepherd in "They Met in Moscow." Shooting on the film began a few months before the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The 26-year old Zeldin was conscripted and sent to the front line before Josef Stalin's order recalled him to Moscow to continue the shoot.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ubezhat, dognat, vluybitsya
2015
Karnavalnaya noch 2, ili 50 let spystya
2007
Old clown
Andersen. Zhizn bez lyubvi
2006
Theartre watchman
Park Sovetskogo perioda
2006
Bes v rebro, ili Velikolepnaya chetvyorka
2006
TV Series
Zhenshchin obizhat ne rekomenduyetsya
2000
Idkind
Klassik
1998
Vasya Rezanyj
Politseiskiye i vory
1997
Vino iz oduvanchikov
1997
Grandfather
Iskushenie B.
1991
Arbatskiy motiv
1990
TV Movie
The Last Autumn
1990
TV Series
Mob
Kanuvshee vremya
1989
Zapretnaya zona
1988
Desyat negrityat
1987
Mr. Justice Lawrence John Wargrave
Maritsa
1985
TV Movie
An Old Gipsy
Pobeda
1985
Birns
Tayna chyornykh drozdov
1983
Police Commissioner
Zhenshchina v belom
1982
Frederic Fairlie (as V. Zeldin)
Rafferty
1980
TV Movie
Dobryaki
1979
Inspektor Gull
1979
TV Movie
Arthur Birling
31 iyunya
1978
TV Movie
King Meliot / Mr. Dimmock
Duenya
1978
TV Movie
Geromo
Blokada: Leningradskiy metronom, Operatsiya Iskra
1978
von Leeb
Tsentrovoy iz podnebesya
1977
as V. Zeldin
Polkovnik v otstavke
1977
Ivan Mikhaylovich
Strakh vysoty
1976
Eto my ne prokhodili
1976
kapitan I ranga (as V. Zeldin)
The Princess and the Pea
1976
Blokada: Luzhskiy rubezh, Pulkovskiy meredian
1975
von Leeb
Na kray sveta
1975
S toboy i bez tebya
1974
Yevstigney - Fyodor's Father
Dyadya Vanya
1971
Professor Aleksandr Vladimirovich Serebryakov
Dvadtsat let spustya
1971
TV Movie
Cardinal
Missiya v Kabule
1970
Major Stein
Neoknchennaya simfoniya
1968
Kherbek
Bereg nadezhdy
1967
Vandenberg
Tsarskaya nevesta
1966
Bomely
Ukroshchenie stroptivoy
1961
TV Movie
Lucentio
Carnival in Moscow
1956
Clown
V kvadrate 45
1956
Boris Shmelev
Uchitel' tantsev
1952
Aldemaro
Symphony of Life
1948
Boris Olenich
They Met in Moscow
1941
Musahib Gatuyev
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Toch-v-toch'
2015
TV Series
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2014
Honor and Dignity Award
Nika Awards
1975
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR
1959
People's Artist of the Republic
People's Artist of the Republic
Russia
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1998
Nika
Nika Awards
Best Supporting Actor or Actress
Politseiskiye i vory (1997)
Known for movies
Desyat negrityat (1987) as Mr. Justice Lawrence John Wargrave
$250,000
