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Alexei Dmitrievich Zharkov (March 27, 1948, Moscow - June 5, 2016, the same place) - Soviet and Russian actor of theater, cinema and dubbing, People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1994).
Alexei Dmitrievich Zharkov was born in Moscow on March 27, 1948. His mother worked as an accountant, his father as a carpenter. As a child he learned to play the accordion. Engaged in the house of pioneers in the section on the artistic words under the guidance of Ivan Mikhailovich Yelyagin.
In 1960, when Alexey performed on the stage of the Column Hall of the House of Unions with a passage from "Vasily Turkin" to the accompaniment of his own accordion, he was noticed by the director Mark Donskoy who was in the hall and invited to his picture "Hello, children! A year later he starred in Rolan Bykov's adventure film "Missing Summer".
Graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School (course of A.M. Karev) in 1970.
In 1971-1988 he was an actor of the Ermolova Theatre. He played in the plays "The Rift" (1977), "Mary Poppins" (1979), "Vasilisa Melentieva" (1982), "Money for Mary" (1985), "Tell..." (1987). In 1988-2000 he was an actor in the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. In 2000 he returned to the Yermolova Theater.
After suffering a stroke in 2012, he lived in a dacha near Moscow. There, in early March 2016, he had a new stroke. On June 5, 2016, the artist passed away.
He is buried at the Pokrovsky (Selyatinsky) cemetery in the Naro-Fominsk district of Moscow region.
