Leonid Parfyonov
Known for ActingBorn 1960-01-26Cherepovets, USSR [now Russia]
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.
Known for
The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
2014 · as Self (uncredited)
Children of the 20th Congress
1988 · as Host
Generation P
2011 · as TV Journalist
Хлеб для Сталина. Истории раскулаченных
2012
Boris Godunov
2011 · as Schelkalov
Still Waters
2000 · as Himself
Eye of God
2012 · as Himself (Presenter)
Old Songs about the Main Thing 2
1997
Gogol the Bird
2009 · as Himself (host)
Russia in Bloom
2013 · as Himself (Host and Narrator)
Zvorykin-Muromets
2010 · as Narrator
Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948.
2017 · as Himself (Presenter)
He Came to Give Us Freedom
2011
And Personally Leonid Ilyich
2006 · as Narrator
Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.
2016 · as Himself (Presenter)
Bashlachev. The Flight of Death
2005 · as Self
In Qvevri Veritas
2021
Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.
2017 · as Himself (Presenter)