Herardo Contreras
April 16, 1940 (84 years old) in Mozhaysk, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire [now Московская область, Russia]
Herardo Contreras, sometimes under the name Gerardo Contreras or Kontreras (Russian: Херардо Контрерас), was born on April 16, 1940 in Mozhaysk. His Basque parents fled the Franco regime to the Soviet Union; his father was a pilot in the Spanish Civil War, his mother a teacher. In 1967, Ivan Karpovich graduated from the Karpenko-Karõi National Theater, Cinema and Television Institute in Kyiv. Until his death, he was an actor at the Estonian SSR State Russian Drama Theater (Russian Theater), performing more than 120 different roles there. In addition to his theatrical work, Herardo Contreras performed with long acting programs and participated in feature films. Contreras died on March 1, 2009 in Tallinn.
Known For
Credits
- 2007 · Georg as Worker in Estonia
- 2005 · Shop of Dreams as Stjopa
- 2002 · Lilya 4-ever as Anna's Neighbour
- 1997 · All My Lenins as Russian Villager
- 1994 · American Mountains as
- 1994 · The Firewater as Janitor
- 1993 · City Unplugged as Doctor
- 1992 · Время вашей жизни as
- 1988 · Dance Around the Steam Boiler as
- 1985 · Long Memory as
- 1984 · Lurich as Wagon Accompanist
- 1976 · Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat as Unanyan
- 1971 · Hail, Mary! as