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His acting roles included an Amish farmer in Witness (1985), a comically narcissistic symphony conductor in The Money Pit (1986) and one of the thieves in Die Hard (1988). He declined roles which typecast him as a dancer or as an action villain, as in Die Hard . [1]
Alexander Borisovich Godunov (November 28, 1949 – May 18, 1995) was an internationally known Russian ballet dancer and actor, whose defection caused a diplomatic incident between the US and the USSR. After his defection, Godunov appeared in Die Hard where he portrayed Karl, the right-hand man of...
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.
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".
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May 19, 1995 · 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 found dead Thursday.
Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. It stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia, with Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner in supporting ...
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May 19, 2000 · His dancing days were all but over, and his Hollywood career — which reached its peak in 1988 in the Bruce Willis blockbuster Die Hard — had taken a disappointing nose-dive. His demise was a...
