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name: "Mikhail Kuznetsov"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mikhail-kuznetsov"
fi1m_id: "mikhail-kuznetsov"
imdb_id: "nm0476843"
tmdb_id: 1191123
wikidata_id: "Q4245008"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 February 1918"
died: "23 August 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T03:41:09.467642+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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# Mikhail Kuznetsov

## Identity

Mikhail Kuznetsov

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mikhail-kuznetsov
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mikhail-kuznetsov
- **IMDb ID:** nm0476843
- **TMDB ID:** 1191123
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4245008
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kuznetsov_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4245008, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0476843/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1191123

Actor. Born 24 February 1918 in Bogorodsk, Russian SFSR, USSR. Died 23 August 1986.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 February 1918, Bogorodsk, Russian SFSR, USSR
- **Died:** 23 August 1986
- **Active:** 1944–1958
- **Also known as:** Mikhail Kuznetcov, Михайло Кузнецов, Кузнецов Михайло Артемович, Michail Kusnezow, M. Kuznetsov, М. Кузнецов
- **Frequently works with:** [Mikhail Zharov](https://film.one/person/mikhail-zharov.md), [Nikolay Cherkasov](https://film.one/person/nikolai-cherkasov.md), [Serafima Birman](https://film.one/person/serafima-birman.md), [Sergei Eisenstein](https://film.one/person/sergei-eisenstein.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 80 (1), 1950s 64 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kuznetsov_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4245008, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0476843/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1191123

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Ivan the Terrible, Part I*](https://film.one/film/ivan-the-terrible-part-i.md) (80), [*Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot*](https://film.one/film/ivan-the-terrible-part-ii-the-boyars-plot.md) (64)

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## Biography

Mikhail Kuznetsov was a Soviet actor. He was born on 25 February 1918 in Bogorodsk, Moscow Governorate, RSFSR, and died on 23 August 1986 in Moscow.

He trained at the dramatic department of the State Opera and Drama Studio named after K. S. Stanislavsky, graduating in 1941. Kuznetsov began appearing in films in 1940 and became known for his role as Fyodor Basmanov in Sergei Eisenstein's *Ivan the Terrible, Part I* (1944) and *Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot* (1958).

Other notable roles include appearances in *Mashenka* (1942), *Taras Shevchenko* (1951) and *Sinyaya tetrad* (1964). He received the Stalin Prize in 1952, was named Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR in 1955 and People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1964.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot* (1958), Fi1m 64, as Fyodor Basmanov — [page](https://film.one/film/ivan-the-terrible-part-ii-the-boyars-plot.md)
- *Ivan the Terrible, Part I* (1944), Fi1m 80, as Fyodor Basmanov — [page](https://film.one/film/ivan-the-terrible-part-i.md)

## Complete filmography (49)

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

- *The Hobbit: The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins* (1985), as Fili
- *Bagration* (1985), as Kutuzov
- *Mr. Student* (1985), Actor
- *Russia Is Young* (1984), series, as воевода Прозоровский
- *Awakening* (1983), Actor
- *On His Motherland Service* (1982), as Sitskov
- *This is Where We Live* (1982), as Oleg Borisovich Konstantinov
- *Secret Ballot* (1980), Actor
- *Scarlet Straps* (1980), series, Actor
- *The Circus Boy* (1980), Actor
- *Forgive Me - Goodbye* (1979), as ded Vasiliy Petrovich
- *Scarlet Straps* (1979), Actor
- *The Guarneri Quartet* (1978), Actor
- *The Road* (1975), Actor
- *Repeated Wedding* (1975), as Павел Прокофьевич
- *Sea Cadet of Northern Fleet* (1973), as midshipman Lukyanov
- *Yulka* (1972), Actor
- *The Salvos of the Aurora Cruiser* (1965), Actor
- *The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin* (1965), as профессор Хлынов
- *Game Without Rules* (1965), as Ларцев
- *Silver Coach* (1963), as Anton Lutenko
- *The Blue Notebook* (1963), as Vladimir Lenin
- *Someone Else's Trouble* (1960), as Федор Денисов
- *In the Silence of Steppe* (1959), as Farzanov
- *Maria, the Wonderful Weaver* (1959), as The Old Soldier
- *Extraordinary Accident* (1958), as Kovalenko
- *Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot* (1958), as Fyodor Basmanov — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/ivan-the-terrible-part-ii-the-boyars-plot.md)
- *Rains* (1958), as Nepeyvoda
- *Без вести пропавший* (1957), Actor
- *Precious Gift* (1956), as Pyotr Petrovich Sperantov
- *The Frigid Sea* (1955), as Fyodor Verigin
- *Sailor Chizhik* (1955), Actor
- *Viburnum Grove* (1954), Actor
- *The Ship Commander* (1954), Actor
- *Marina's Destiny* (1954), Actor
- *Adventure in Odessa* (1953), as Professor Belov
- *Taras Shevchenko* (1951), as Skobelev
- *Bountiful Summer* (1951), as Pyotr Sereda
- *Private Aleksandr Matrosov* (1947), Actor
- *Our Heart* (1947), as Aleksandr Samokhin
- *In the Name of Life* (1946), as Dr. Aleksandr Kolesov
- *It Happened in the Donbass* (1945), Actor
- *Ivan the Terrible, Part I* (1944), as Fyodor Basmanov — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/ivan-the-terrible-part-i.md)
- *Air Taxi* (1943), as Co-Pilot
- *Actress* (1943), Actor
- *The District Secretary* (1942), as Sasha Rusov
- *Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #10* (1942), as Teodor Christia
- *Mashenka* (1942), as Alyosha
- *Our Girls* (1942), as Nikolay

## Gallery

- ![Михаил Кузнецов в фильме "Наше сердце" (1946) (1947)](https://film.one/media/person/3859931/gallery-23f42f935607.jpg) Михаил Кузнецов в фильме "Наше сердце" (1946) (1947) — Кинооператоры Валентин Павлов, Сергей Уралов / Мосфильм, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Mikhail_Kuznetsov_-_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Иван Грозный и Фёдор Басманов. Кадр из фильма Иван Грозный (Часть I, 1945 год)](https://film.one/media/person/3859931/gallery-ba0a028d44b9.jpg) Иван Грозный и Фёдор Басманов. Кадр из фильма Иван Грозный (Часть I, 1945 год) — Mosfilm, Sergei Eisenstein, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Ivan_the_Terrible_and_Fedor_Basmanov.jpg/1280px-Ivan_the_Terrible_and_Fedor_Basmanov.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mikhail Kuznetsov](https://film.one/media/person/3859931/gallery-a598083a707b.png) Mikhail Kuznetsov — режиссер Юлий Райзман, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Kuznetsov_mashenka.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 3 won

- People's Artist of the RSFSR 1964: People's Artist of the RSFSR (won)
- Merited Artist of the Ukrainian SSR 1955: Merited Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (won)
- Stalin Prize 1952: Stalin Prize (won), for *Taras Shevchenko*

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

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