Sergo Zakariadze | |
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Born |
Baku, Azerbaijan |
18 July 1909
Died | 13 April 1971 Tblisi, Georgia |
(aged 61)
Occupation | Actor |
Sergo Zakariadze (Georgian: სერგო ზაქარიაძე [sɛrɡɔ zakʰariad͡zɛ]; 18 July [O.S. July 1] 1909 – 13 April 1971) was a renowned Georgian actor.
Zakariadze was born in Baku, now in Azerbaijan, in 1909. He won several prizes, among them Best Actor honors at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival for his portrayal of an old peasant who joined the Red Army in order to find his son in the movie Father of a Soldier (Djariskatsis mama). His final rôle was in Bondarchuk's Waterloo as Prussian Marschall Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, just a few months before his death. He died in Tblisi.