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Alexander Borisovich Godunov (Russian: Александр Борисович Годунов; November 28, 1949 – c. May 1995) was a Russian-American ballet dancer and film actor. A member of the Bolshoi Ballet, he became the troupe's Premier danseur. In 1979, he defected to the United States.
May 19, 1995 · Alexander Godunov, the swashbuckling Russian ballet dancer and movie actor, was found dead yesterday at his home in West Hollywood, Calif. He was 45. Sheriff's Sgt. Bob Minutello told The ...
Alexander Godunov. Actor: Die Hard. He was born on Sakhalin Island at the far eastern end of the former Soviet Union and began studying dance at age 9 in the Riga State Ballet School. He later said his mother put him there to prevent his becoming "a hooligan".
May 19, 1995 · TIMES STAFF WRITER. Alexander Godunov, the lithe dancer with the long flaxen hair and a brooding manner who created an international stir when he defected from the Soviet Union in 1979, was...
Alexander Godunov (born November 28, 1949, Sakhalin Island, Soviet Union (now in Russia)—died May 18, 1995, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) Russian ballet dancer and actor who had a successful career with Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet before defecting to the United States during the company’s 1979 engagement in New York City.
May 19, 2000 · Published on May 19, 2000 04:00AM EDT. It was one of the few gifts america accepted from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The agile body of dancer Alexander Godunov, carefully sculpted...
Boris Alexander Godunov, dancer, actor: born Riga 28 November 1949; married 1971 Ludmilla Vlasova (marriage dissolved 1982); died Los Angeles c18 May 1995.
