Aleksandr Viktorovich Dedyushko (May 20, 1962 – November 3, 2007) was a Russia

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n television actor

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, best known for war dramas and the Russian version of "Dancing with the Stars

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Born as Aliaksandr Dziadziushka in Vawkavysk, Hrodna Voblast

Hrodna Voblast

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, Belarus

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, he worked with the Vladimir City Theatre from 1989 until 1995. Starting in the early 2000s, Dedyushko became a popular Russian television presenter

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, actor

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 and singer.

Dedyushko was killed along with his wife and son in a car accident on November 3, 2007, in Petushki

Petushki

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, Vladimir Oblast

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, Russia. Their car apparently skidded on an ice covered road.

Selected filmography

• Taras Bulba
  Taras Bulba
  Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical novel by Nikolai Gogol. It tells the story of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. Taras’ sons studied at the Kiev Academy and return home...
  
   (2009)
• Vechernyaya skazka (2007)
• A Driver for Vera
  A Driver for Vera
  A Driver for Vera is a Ukrainian-Russian co-produced film from 2004, directed and written by Russian Pavel Chukhrai. This fact led to the film being rejected as Ukraine's entry for the Foreign Film Academy Awards category for 2005, due to a rule which states that "the submitting country must...
  
   (2004)
• Demobbed
  Demobbed (film)
  Demobbed is a cult Russian comedy film by Roman Kachanov, offering an absurdistic view on the Russian army by the eyes of a conscript...
  
   (2000)
• The Barber of Siberia
  The Barber of Siberia
  The Barber of Siberia is a 1998 Russian film that re-united the Academy Award winning team of director Nikita Mikhalkov and Michel Seydoux...
  
   (1998)
• Mother
  Mother (1989 film)
  Mother is a 1989 Soviet drama film directed by Gleb Panfilov. It was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Inna Churikova* Viktor Rakov* Liubomiras Lauciavicius* Aleksandr Shishonok - * Dmitri Pevtsov...
  
  (1989)

External links and references

• Aleksandr Dedyushko killed in car accident (Russian)
• Official website of the memory actor (Russian)