Trivia

Voiced Hollywood stars in Russian dubbing.

In films, he is remembered for his role as Rogers in Ten Little Indians (1987) and as the main villain in the drama Poyezd do Bruklina (1998). However, he gained widespread recognition as a dubbing artist. His voice was used in Russian releases by such Hollywood stars as Anthony Hopkins, Alain Delon, and Robert De Niro.

He also graduated from the Shchepkin Theatre School, but never received a university degree from Moscow State University, as he was forced to work in his field for three years after completing his studies at the theater school.

In 2017, Zolotnitskiy suffered a stroke (he lost his speech and coordination). He had previously suffered a minor stroke in 2011, but continued acting.

He began dubbing films at the age of 15, working alongside his father, who was one of the pioneers of dubbing in the USSR.

As Zolotnitskiy himself says, he had to simply accept some of the roles offered to him, "as KGB agents of retirement or pre-retirement age, or as gangsters, especially malicious ones-maniacs, killers," but he didn't play "as much as he wanted, and what he would have liked," such as King Lear or Richard III.

In 1967, he won a prize in the Young Actors-Reciters Competition, and in 1999 he was awarded as the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

From 1957 until the end of his life, the actor lived on Eisenstein Street in Rostokino , where his parents were given a two-room apartment in the Gorkiy Film Studio building.

Since 1959, Aleksey studied at the studio of the Stanislavsky Theatre , where he acted on stage alongside dubbing films, and at the age of 16 he entered the M.S. Shchepkin Higher Theatre School at the Malyy Theatre and the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University .

By his own admission, he has voiced about 10 thousand leading roles.