Vladlen Davydov

Vladlen Davydov is a Russian actor of Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). He was born Vladlen Semenovich Davydov on January 16, 1924, in Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia). From 1943 - 1947 he studied acting under I. Raevsky at Moscow Art Theatre School of Acting, graduating in 1947 as an actor. Two years later he shot to fame and earned himself the Stalin's Prize for the leading role as Maj. Kuzmin in the popular war film Vstrecha na Elbe (1949) by director Grigoriy Aleksandrov. Since 1947 Vladlen Davydov has been a permanent member of the troupe at Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). There his stage partners were such renown Russian actors as Olga Knipper-Chekhova, Anatoli Ktorov, Alla Tarasova, Olga Androvskaya, Angelina Stepanova, Mikhail Yanshin, Aleksey Gribov, Boris Livanov, Mikhail Kedrov, Mark Prudkin, Anastasiya Georgievskaya, Vasili Toporkov, Mikhail Bolduman, Pavel Massalsky, and the next generation of MKhAT actors - Oleg Efremov, Tatyana Doronina, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Oleg Tabakov,