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Mikhail Pugovkin

1923 - 2008

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Mikhail Ivanovich Pugovkin (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Пу́говкин; 13 July 1923 — 25 July 2008) was a Soviet and Russian theatre and film comic actor named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1988. He studied in the Moscow Art Theatre school under Ivan Moskvin, took part in World War II and, following demobilisation, was featured in the 1944 all-star cast adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Wedding. Another step to stardom was the 1967 comedy Wedding in Malinovka. Pugovkin went on to appear in more than 100 films. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Pugovkin is the 4,070th most popular actor (down from 3,749th in 2019), the 1,598th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,540th in 2019) and the 71st most popular Russian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mikhail Pugovkin ranks 4,070 out of 13,578Before him are Hiroshi Abe, Ronee Blakley, Assumpta Serna, Nicholas Clay, Alessandra Panaro, and Maite Perroni. After him are Philip Jackson, Tyrese Gibson, Elizabeth Allen, Debbie Allen, Željko Ivanek, and Yuri Lowenthal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Mikhail Pugovkin ranks 280Before him are Gordon R. Dickson, Jean Hagen, Norberto Méndez, Alfredo Nobre da Costa, Gabriel Alonso, and Gerrit Voorting. After him are Leon Niemczyk, Jesús Rafael Soto, D. N. Aidit, Brendan Behan, Peter Gay, and Barney Kessel. Among people deceased in 2008, Mikhail Pugovkin ranks 224Before him are Hidetaka Nishiyama, Károly Németh, Ennio de Concini, Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Carole Caldwell Graebner, and Barry Morse. After him are Elfriede Kaun, Mario Rigoni Stern, Nikola Kljusev, Evelyn Keyes, Sœur Emmanuelle, and Natalia Bessmertnova.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Pugovkin ranks 1,598 out of 3,761Before him are Vladimir Levenshtein (1935), Andrei Tchmil (1963), Sergei Mavrodi (1955), Pyotr Gavrilov (1900), Igor Larionov (1960), and Nikolai Gastello (1907). After him are Klaus-Dieter Sieloff (1942), Klavdiya Boyarskikh (1939), Illarion Pryanishnikov (1840), Pyotr Saltykov (1698), Alexey Miller (1962), and Vera Karalli (1889).

Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Mikhail Pugovkin ranks 71Before him are Vera Glagoleva (1956), Stanislav Lyubshin (1933), Vladimir Sokoloff (1889), Yevgeny Morgunov (1927), Vitaly Solomin (1941), and Nadezhda Rumyantseva (1930). After him are Nikolai Burlyayev (1946), Vladimir Mashkov (1963), Natalya Bondarchuk (1950), Mikhail Zharov (1899), Natalya Seleznyova (1945), and Boris Markov (1924).