---
name: "Lev Eliseev"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lev-eliseev"
fi1m_id: "lev-eliseev"
imdb_id: "nm0974015"
tmdb_id: 2117020
wikidata_id: "Q24351080"
roles: []
born: "17 August 1934"
died: "26 June 2015"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T18:00:57.770832+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Lev Eliseev

## Identity

Lev Eliseev

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lev-eliseev
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lev-eliseev
- **IMDb ID:** nm0974015
- **TMDB ID:** 2117020
- **Wikidata ID:** Q24351080
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24351080, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0974015/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2117020

Actor. Born 17 August 1934 in settlement Sinyavino, Leningrad region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia). Died 26 June 2015.

## Details

- **Born:** 17 August 1934, settlement Sinyavino, Leningrad region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
- **Died:** 26 June 2015
- **Also known as:** Лев Елисеев, Lev Yeliseyev, Lev Jelissejev
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24351080, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0974015/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2117020

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Russian Ark*](https://film.one/film/russian-ark.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Lev Eliseev (also credited as Lev Yeliseyev or Лев Елисеев) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He graduated from the acting department of the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography in 1957, in the class of B. V. Zon.

From 1957 to 1961 he was an actor at the Riga Youth Theatre. He later worked at Lenconcert (now Petersburg-Concert) from 1961, performing solo programmes of world prose and poetry, and appeared with theatres including 'Experiment' (1989–1991) and the contract troupe of the St Petersburg 'Russian Entreprise' named after Andrey Mironov from 2007. He was awarded the title of Honoured Artist of the RSFSR in 1984.

His film and television credits include *Moloch* (1999), *Taurus* (2001), *Russian Ark* (2002, as Self), *Master and Margarita* (2005), *Hard to Be a God* (2013) and *The Iron Ivan* (2012). He died in St Petersburg on 26 June 2015.

*Sources: ru.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Russian Ark* (2002), Fi1m 78, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/russian-ark.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Iron Ivan* (2014), as Nikolai Nikolaevich
- *Old Gun* (2014), series, as Lev Mikhailovich
- *Hard to Be a God* (2014), as episode
- *It All Started in Harbin* (2013), series, as Isaak Grinberg
- *The Role* (2013), Actor
- *Little Tragedies* (2010), Actor
- *Buratino, Son of Pinocchio* (2009), as Pinocchio
- *Alexander: The Neva Battle* (2008), Actor
- *White Lilacs* (2008), Actor
- *With a Pen and a Sword* (2007), series, as Ганс фон Левальд фельдмаршал Пруссии
- *Rush Hour* (2006), Actor
- *The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin* (2004), series, Actor
- *Taurus* (2001), as doctor
- *Secrecy of the Investigation* (2000), series, as сторож на кладбище
- *Moloch* (1999), Actor
- *Spirit* (1999), Actor
- *Way Home* (1967), as kinooperator

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class without swords 2005: Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class without swords (won)
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR 1984: Honored Artist of the RSFSR (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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