Grigori Aleksandrov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Grigori Aleksandrov

Soviet film director

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1903

Place of Birth: Yekaterinburg, Perm Governorate

Date of Death: 16-Dec-1983

Profession: screenwriter, actor, teacher, pedagogue, university teacher, film director

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov (Russian: ?????´??? ????´?????? ??????´?????; original family name was ?????????? or Mormonenko; 23 January 1903 – 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1973.
He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950. Initially associated with Sergei Eisenstein, with whom he worked as a co-director, screenwriter and actor, Aleksandrov became a major director in his own right in the 1930s, when he directed Jolly Fellows and a string of other musical comedies starring his wife Lyubov Orlova. Though Aleksandrov remained active until his death, his musicals, amongst the first made in the Soviet Union, remain his most popular films.
They rival Ivan Pyryev's films as the most effective and light-hearted showcase ever designed for the Stalin-era USSR.