Gennadi Petrovich Bogachyov (; 6 March 1945 – 25 April 2023) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, in the troupe of the Bolshoi Drama Theater in Saint Petersburg since 1969. In 1990 he was awarded the People's Artist of the RSFSR, and in 2015 Russia's Golden Mask award for best supporting male actor in a drama.
Biography
Bogachyov was born on 6 March 1945, in the town of Shatsk, Ryazan Oblast. In 1969 he graduated from the acting faculty of LGITMiK and was admitted to the troupe of the Leningrad Drama Theater. Since the early 1980s he was one of the leading artists of the theater.
His most famous works in cinema are small but memorable, including the roles of the waiter Dima in and Stamford in the first episode of the television film series Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
Bogachyov was the uncle of actress . He died on 25 April 2023, at age 78.
Filmography
Khanuma (1978) as Kote
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979) as Stamford
Speed (1983) as Nina's husband
Moonzund (1987) as Stashevsky
Brezhnev (2005) as Nikolai Shchelokov
The Master and Margarita (2005) as Aloisy Mogarych
Simple Things (2007) as Psaryov
Dubbing
Robin Williams
Aladdin – Genie
Aladdin and the King of Thieves – Genie
Bicentennial Man – Andrew Martin
Flubber – Professor Philip Brainard
Night at the Museum – Theodore Roosevelt
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb – Theodore Roosevelt / Garuda's voice
Old Dogs – Dan Rayburn
Danny DeVito
Be Cool – Martin Weir
Big Fish – Amos Calloway
Deck the Halls – Buddy Hall
The Rainmaker – Deck Shifflet
What's the Worst That Could Happen? – Max Fairbanks
When in Rome – Al
Tommy Lee Jones
The Client – Roy "Reverend Roy" Foltrigg
The Fugitive – U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard
JFK – Clay Shaw / Clay Bertrand
Under Siege – William Strannix
Volcano – Michael Roark
Richard Gere
Final Analysis – Dr. Isaac Barr
Runaway Bride – Homer Eisenhower "Ike" Graham
Sommersby – John "Jack" Sommersby
Cliff Robertson
Spider-Man – Ben Parker
Spider-Man 2 – Ben Parker
Spider-Man 3 – Ben Parker
Air Force One – Defense Secretary Walter Dean (Dean Stockwell) The Bone Collector – Captain Howard Cheney (Michael Rooker) Falling Down – Captain Bill Yardley (Raymond J. Barry) Forever Young – Harry Finley (George Wendt) Last Action Hero – Benedict (Charles Dance) The Marrying Man – Charley Pearl (Alec Baldwin) Mighty Joe Young – Andrei Strasser (Rade Šerbedžija) Ransom – Tom Mullen (Mel Gibson) The Rock – FBI Agent Ernest Paxton (William Forsythe) Titanic – Spicer Lovejoy (David Warner)
Awards and honors
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1982) People's Artist of the RSFSR (1990) Order of Friendship (2004) Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (2009) for Best Acting Ensemble (2012) Golden Mask (2015) for Best Supporting Actor Order of Honour (2018)
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1945 births
2023 deaths
20th-century Russian male actors
21st-century Russian male actors
People from Ryazan Oblast
Russian State Institute of Performing Arts alumni
Honored Artists of the RSFSR
People's Artists of the RSFSR
Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) Russian male film actors Russian male stage actors Russian male television actors Russian male voice actors Soviet male film actors Soviet male stage actors Soviet male television actors Soviet male voice actors