Rudolf Nureyev
ActingBorn Mar 17, 1938 in Irkutsk, USSR [now Russia]Died Jan 6, 1993
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Tatar dancer from the former Soviet Union, considered one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of the 20th century. Nureyev's artistic skills explored expressive areas of the dance, providing a new role to the male ballet dancer who once served only as support to the women. He defected to the West, despite KGB efforts to stop him. According to KGB archives studied by Peter Watson, Nikita Khrushchev personally signed an order to have Nureyev killed Description above from the Wikipedia article Rudolf Nureyev, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known for
Omnibus
7.21967TV Show
The Dick Cavett Show
6.81968TV Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
6.81948TV Show
The Muppet Show
8.01976TV Show
Le Grand Échiquier
8.01972TV Show
Midi trente
6.01972TV Show
The Hollywood Palace
5.01964TV Show
Please Turn the Page
6.01977TV Show
La Bayadère
8.02010Movie
La Bayadère
—2012Movie
The Nutcracker
6.01989Movie
Wedden, dat..?
7.01986TV Show
Filmography
Acting
- 2021Hervé Guibert, la mort propagandeas Self (archive footage)
- 2018Nureyevas Self, Archive Footage
- 2018Marius Petipa, le maître français du ballet russeas self
- 2018The Nutcracker
- 2016Rudolf Nureyev. Island of His Dreamsas Himself (Archive Footage)
- 2014I Am Divineas Self (archive)
- 2013Bournonville's La Sylphide and Flower Festivalas Paolo, a young man