---
name: "Vladimir Balashov"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vladimir-balashov"
fi1m_id: "vladimir-balashov"
imdb_id: "nm0049465"
tmdb_id: 560103
wikidata_id: "Q4076481"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "10 July 1920"
died: "23 December 1996"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T03:41:23.439994+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."
---

# Vladimir Balashov

## Identity

Vladimir Balashov

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vladimir-balashov
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** vladimir-balashov
- **IMDb ID:** nm0049465
- **TMDB ID:** 560103
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4076481
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Balashov_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4076481, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0049465/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/560103

Actor. Born 10 July 1920 in Izhevskoe, Ryazanskaya guberniya, Soviet Russia. Died 23 December 1996.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 July 1920, Izhevskoe, Ryazanskaya guberniya, Soviet Russia
- **Died:** 23 December 1996
- **Active:** 1944–1958
- **Also known as:** Vladimir Pavlovich Balashov, V. Balashov, В. Балашов, Владимир Павлович Балашов
- **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/Vladimir_Balashov_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4076481, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0049465/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/560103

## 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

Vladimir Pavlovich Balashov was a Soviet Russian actor. He was born on 10 July 1920 in Izhevskoye, Ryazan Governorate, and died on 23 December 1996 in Moscow.

He trained at the actors' school attached to Mosfilm studio from 1937 to 1941. His early screen roles included parts in *The Oppenheim Family* (1938) and *The Artamonov Business* (1941). He appeared as Pyotr Volynets in Sergei Eisenstein's *Ivan the Terrible, Part I* (1944) and *Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot* (1958).

Balashov received the Stalin Prize, first class, in 1951 for his portrayal of Mily Balakirev in *Mussorgsky* (1950). He was named an Honoured Artist of the RSFSR in 1955. He worked at the Theatre-Studio of the Film Actor and later at the Gorky Film Studio.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

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

## Complete filmography (63)

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

- *Have You Forgotten What We Used to Play?* (2010), as The Man
- *Anomaly* (1993), Actor
- *Enemy's Enemy* (1990), series, as General Rosenow
- *Silver Strings* (1988), Actor
- *Picture* (1985), series, as генерал Фомин
- *Demidovy* (1983), as De Gennin
- *Carnival* (1981), as member of the Admission Committee
- *My Life is the Army* (1981), Actor
- *Golden Beasts Parade* (1979), as Aleksandr Buddo
- *Killed While on Duty* (1978), Actor
- *Storm on the Land* (1976), Actor
- *No Margin for Error* (1975), as Егор Савельевич Тарута, отец Антона, фронтовик
- *My Destiny* (1974), as Василий Егорович
- *Discovery* (1973), as член комиссии по расследованию аварии
- *Silver Trumpets* (1971), Actor
- *Ugryum-River* (1969), series, as следователь
- *The Shield and the Sword* (1968), as Walter Sonnenberg
- *Let's Remember This Day* (1968), as Pechenka
- *Exodus* (1968), as Baron Ungern (voice)
- *Sea Stories* (1967), as Leontiy Andreich
- *A Song in the Woods* (1967), as (voice)
- *Someone Else's Name* (1966), as Sergey Dmitriyevich Tyurin
- *The Most, the Most, the Most* (1966), as Eagle
- *Year as Long as Life* (1965), as Joseph Moll
- *The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin* (1965), as инженер на Золотом острове
- *Loneliness* (1964), as Tokmakov
- *Strict Game* (1964), as Komarovsky
- *Madmen's Trial* (1961), as Senator
- *City of Great Destiny* (1961), Actor
- *First Trials* (1960), Actor
- *Dreams Come True* (1960), Actor
- *North Rainbow* (1960), Actor
- *Toktogul* (1959), as Semenov
- *The Man from Planet Earth* (1959), as Dorofeev
- *Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot* (1958), as Pyotr Volynets — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/ivan-the-terrible-part-ii-the-boyars-plot.md)
- *Pages of the Past* (1958), Actor
- *Steep Steps* (1957), as Simon Matveyevich Galagan
- *New Attraction* (1957), Actor
- *Captain of the «Old Turtle»* (1956), Actor
- *The Fire of Immortality* (1956), Actor
- *Main Avenue* (1956), as Gritsenko
- *Flames on the Volga* (1956), Actor
- *Ivan Franko* (1956), as Henryk
- *The Shadow Near the Pier* (1955), as Kobchikov
- *The Crash of the Emirate* (1955), Actor
- *The Ship Commander* (1954), Actor
- *Admiral Ushakov* (1953), as Belli (uncredited)
- *Maximka* (1952), as Аркадий Павлович Чебыкин
- *Mussorgsky* (1950), as Mily Balakirev
- *The Magic Treasure* (1950), as shepherd Bair
- *Ivan Pavlov* (1949), as Semenov
- *Private Aleksandr Matrosov* (1947), Actor
- *Maryte* (1947), Actor
- *The Vow* (1946), as Anatol Lipsky, saboteur
- *A Noisy Household* (1946), as Durand
- *It Happened in the Donbass* (1945), Actor
- *Girl No. 217* (1945), as Maks
- *The Invasion* (1945), as Pasha
- *Ivan the Terrible, Part I* (1944), as Piotr Volynetz — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/ivan-the-terrible-part-i.md)
- *Guerrillas in the Steppes of Ukraine* (1943), Actor
- *How the Steel Was Tempered* (1942), Actor
- *The Artamonov Case* (1941), as Nikita
- *The Oppenheim Family* (1939), as Berthold Oppenheim

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Honored Artist of the RSFSR 1955: Honored Artist of the RSFSR (won)
- State Stalin Prize, 1st degree 1951: State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (won), for *Mussorgsky*

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

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