Background
ASTANGOV, Mikhail was born on November 3, 1900 in Warsaw.
ASTANGOV, Mikhail was born on November 3, 1900 in Warsaw.
Graduate A.A. Matveyeva’s Theater School.
1918 stage debut; from 1920 at Chaliapin Studio. From 1923 at Komissarzhevskaya Theater-Studio. 1925-1927 and 1930-1941 at Theater of the Revol, Moscow.
1927-1930 at Odessa and Kazan’ theaters. 1943-1945 at Moscow Soviet Theater, Moscow. From 1945 member, Arts Council, Vakhtangov State Theater, Moscow.
1960 took part in acad session of Institute of Russian Lit, USSR Academy of Sciences. Roles: stage roles: Gay in Pogodin’s Moy drug (My Friend). Fyodor Talanov in Leonov’s Nashestviye (Invasion).
Matthias Klausen in Hauptmann’s ’’Before Dawn”. Hamlet in Shakespeare’s ’’Hamlet”. Chichikov in Gogol’s Myortvyye dushi (Dead Souls).
MacPherson in Simonov’s Russkiy vopros (The Russian Question), etc. Film roles: Prince Sumbatov in Konveyer smerti (The Conveyer Belt of Death) (1933). Kostya Kapitan in Zaklyuchyonnyye (The Prisoners) (1936).
Arakcheyev in "Suvorov” (1941). General Ennecke in Tretiy udar (The Third Onslaught) (1948). Hitler in Stalingradskaya bitva (The Battle of Stalingrad) (1949), etc.