was actor of the Mossovet Theatre ("Venetian merchant" - Shylock, "King Lear" - Lear). The actor read poetry on stage, radio, television, and recorded discs. In 1999, the actor, together with saxophonist Igor Butman, staged a play-concert on Brodsky's verses "Concert for voice and saxophone". In 1997, Mikhail Kozakov's "Acting Book" was published, in which he tells about his life, about different times and people of art in them. Death and personal life In 2010 Kozakov was diagnosed with lung cancer. He went through unsuccessful treatment in Israel and died on 22 April 2011 in a clinic near Tel Aviv. He was buried at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Moscow near his father, in accordance with his will. Kozakov was officially married five times. He left his last wife Nadezhda Sedova (47 years younger than him) in 2010 with a scandal, claiming that she had stolen his flat and that she was the cause of his illness, and fled to his fourth wife Anna Yampolskaya who lived in Israel along with their children Mikhail and Zoya. He had a daughter Katerina and a son Kirill, also a prominent Russian actor, from his first marriage to Greta Taar, as well as a daughter Manana from his second marriage to Medea Berelashvili. Honors Kozakov - People's Artist of Russia (1980), laureate of the State Prizes of the USSR (1967) and the RSFSR (1983), art director of the theater "Russian Entreprise Mikhail Kozakov" Selected filmography Actor Murder on Dante Street (1956) — Charles Thibault Hard Happiness (1958) — Nikolai Nagorny The Sisters (1957 film) (1959) —Valerian Onoli The Golden Echelon (1959) — Cheremisov Far from the Motherland (1960) — Hauptmann Saugel Eugenia Grandet (1960) — Charles Grandet Last Salvos (1960) — Gorbachev Baltic Skies (1960) — Baiseitov, pilot Crazy Court (1961) — Michel Nine Days in One Year (1962) — Valery Ivanovich Amphibian Man (1962) — Pedro Zurita The Bridge Is Built (1965) — Mammadov A Pistol Shot (1966) — Silvio Day of Sun and Rain (1967) — actor as Mishka Japonchik (cameo) The Red and The White (1967) — Nestor The Tale of the Chekist (1969) — Belov Two Days of Miracles (1970) — professor-examiner of the Institute of Good Wizards Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1971) — Gilmarde All the King's Men (1971) — Jack Burden Grandmaster (1972) — Volodya Childhood. Adolescence. Youth (1973) — Pyotr Alexandrovich Acting (1973) —