Aleksei Smirnov (actor)
Aleksei Makarovich Smirnov was a Russian actor. He performed in more than fifty films between 1959 and 1977.
Alexey Smirnov was born onFebruary 1920, in the town of Danilov, Yaroslavskaya Gubernia, to the Smirnovs family Makar Stepanovich Smirnov and Anna Ivanovna. In the mid 1920s they moved to Lenigrad. After her husbands early decease Anna Ivanovna had to rise her two children on her own Alexey had a younger brother Arkady. The Smirnovs resided in a communal apartment at 44 Petr Lavrov str. As a pupil Alexey Smirnov began acting in the school amateur theatre. In 1940 he graduated from the Leningrad Music Comedy Theater school and was admitted into the troupe. Smirnov got an only part there the Black Eagle in the operetta RoseMarie before the Great Patriotic war began.
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