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Leonid Parfyonov

Acting

  • Born
  • January 26, 1960
  • Place of birth
  • Cherepovets, USSR [now Russia]

Biography

Russian veteran journalist, news presenter, TV producer and author of many popular documentary TV shows. Parfyonov is best known for his studio work and productions for the NTV (of which he was Producer General between 1997 and 1999) until that TV channel was subdued by the government-owned Gazprom Media. From December 3, 2004 until December 20, 2007 he was an Editor-in-Chief of Russky Newsweek, Russian edition of Newsweek. Parfyonov is currently a member of Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.

As the author and narrator of the daily culture news TV show Namedni on NTV, Parfyonov produced the line of popular history TV documentaries which he narrated and hosted on-site of almost each event portrayed. The series achieved great success and were repeatedly broadcast for years after premiere.

As actor 33

KVN Major League poster
KVN Major League
1986
Evening Urgant poster
Evening Urgant
2012
Fort Boyard Russia poster
Fort Boyard Russia
1998
Хлеб для Сталина. Истории раскулаченных poster
Хлеб для Сталина. Истории раскулаченных
2012
Karamora poster
Karamora
2022
Russian Georgians. Part 1 poster
Russian Georgians. Part 1
2020
Namedni poster
Namedni
1997
The Term. Beginning of a Big Story poster
The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
2014
Children of the 20th Congress poster
Children of the 20th Congress
1988
Без души poster
Без души
2019
In Qvevri Veritas poster
In Qvevri Veritas
2021
Намедни 1961—2003. Наша эра poster
Намедни 1961—2003. Наша эра
1997
Russian Georgians. Part 2 poster
Russian Georgians. Part 2
2022
Generation P poster
Generation P
2011
Russian Empire poster
Russian Empire
2000
Boris Godunov poster
Boris Godunov
2011
Zvorykin-Muromets poster
Zvorykin-Muromets
2010
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2 poster
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
1997
Bashlachev. The Flight of Death poster
Bashlachev. The Flight of Death
2005
He Came to Give Us Freedom poster
He Came to Give Us Freedom
2011
Gogol the Bird poster
Gogol the Bird
2009
Still Waters poster
Still Waters
2000
Eye of God poster
Eye of God
2012
Listyev. A New Look poster
Listyev. A New Look
2020
Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution. poster
Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.
2016
The Age of Nabokov poster
The Age of Nabokov
1999
Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948. poster
Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948.
2017
Russia in Bloom poster
Russia in Bloom
2013
Namedni-2020-2. Tiktok. Beirut. Khabarovsk. Belarus. Karabakh. Morgenstern. Navalny and poison
2021
Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948. poster
Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.
2017
Namedni-2020-1. Covid. Remote. Resetting. Traffic accident with Efremov. Screenlife
2021
And Personally Leonid Ilyich
2006
Namedni-1921 Capablanca. Hunger in the Volga region. March 8. Youth Theater. Homeless children
2021

On the crew 20

Old Songs about the Main Thing poster
Old Songs about the Main Thing
1995
Russian Georgians. Part 1 poster
Russian Georgians. Part 1
2020
Namedni poster
Namedni
1997
Children of the 20th Congress poster
Children of the 20th Congress
1988
Намедни 1961—2003. Наша эра poster
Намедни 1961—2003. Наша эра
1997
Russian Georgians. Part 2 poster
Russian Georgians. Part 2
2022
Russian Empire poster
Russian Empire
2000
Zvorykin-Muromets poster
Zvorykin-Muromets
2010
O World, You Are a Sport! poster
O World, You Are a Sport!
2004
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2 poster
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
1997
Old Songs About the Main Thing poster
Old Songs About the Main Thing
1996
Gogol the Bird poster
Gogol the Bird
2009
Eye of God poster
Eye of God
2012
Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution. poster
Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.
2016
Pocket of Russia poster
Pocket of Russia
2021
The Age of Nabokov poster
The Age of Nabokov
1999
Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948. poster
Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948.
2017
Russia in Bloom poster
Russia in Bloom
2013
Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948. poster
Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.
2017
And Personally Leonid Ilyich
2006