Yevgeny Matveyev

Yevgeny Matveyev
Евгений Матвеев
Matveyev in 2002
Born
Yevgeny Semyonovich Matveyev

8 March 1922
Died1 June 2003(2003-06-01) (aged 81)
Occupation(s)Actor, film director, screenwriter
Years active19391999
Notable work
TitlePeople's Artist of the USSR (1974)
SpouseLidiya Alexeyevna Matveyeva (m. 1947)
Parent(s)Semyon Kalinovich Matveyev
Nadezhda Fyodorovna Kovalenko
AwardsUSSR State Prize (1977)
Military career
Allegiance Soviet Union
BranchSoviet Army
Years of service1941-1946
RankLieutenant

Yevgeny Semyonovich Matveyev (Russian: Евгений Семёнович Матвеев, Ukrainian: Євген Семенович Матвеев; 8 March 1922 – 1 June 2003) was a Soviet and Russian actor and film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. He is best known as Nagulnov in Virgin Soil Upturned, based on Mikhail Sholokhov's novel; and Nekhludov in Resurrection (Russian: Воскресение), based on Leo Tolstoy's novel.