Vladimir Nabokov (actor, writer)

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Vladimir Nabokov

Date of birth (location) 23 April 1899 St. Petersburg, Russia Date of death (details) 2 July 1977 Lausanne, Switzerland. Mini biography Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born into a trilingual family in St... (show more)

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Filmography as: Writer, Himself

Writer - filmography
(2000s) (1990s) (1980s) (1970s) (1960s)

1. The Luzhin Defence (2000) (novel Defence)
   ... aka Défense Loujine, La (France)
   ... aka The Luzhin Defense (USA: cable TV title)
   
   
2. Lurjus (1999) (short story)
3. Lolita (1997) (novel)
   ... aka Lolita (France)
4. Mademoiselle O (1994) (TV) (short story)
   
   
5. Maschenka (1987) (novel)
   ... aka Mashenka (Finland)
   
   
6. Despair (1978) (novel)
   ... aka Despair (France)
   ... aka Despair - Eine Reise ins Licht
7. King, Queen, Knave (1972) (novel)
   ... aka Herzbube
   ... aka König, Dame, Bube (West Germany)
   
   
8. Laughter in the Dark (1969) (novel)
   ... aka Chambre obscure, La (France)
9. Lolita (1962) (novel) (screenplay)
   
   

Filmography

 

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Biography for
Vladimir Nabokov

Birth name

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

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Height

6' 2" (1.88 m)

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Mini biography

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born into a trilingual family in St. Petersburg, Russia. He graduated from the prestigious Tenishev School in St. Petersburg. As a child he was already reading foreign writers Edgar Allan Poe, Gustave Flaubert, and the Russians Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, and Anton Chekhov. His father, a wealthy Russian aristocrat and a prominent political leader, was arrested during the Russian revolution of 1917, and the family estate was confiscated by the communists. The Nabokov family emigrated to Berlin, where Nabokov's father was murdered at a political meeting. In 1923 Nabokov graduated with honors from Trinity College, Cambridge and worked as translator and tutor in Europe for 18 years. In 1925 he married Vera Evseevna Slonim, from a Russian-Jewish family, their son Dmitri was born in 1934.

Traumatized by the death of his father and the loss of his home country, Nabokov expressed himself in writing. "The Luzhin Defence" (1930) is alluding to his own story of emigration and the sense of loss. In 1937 his father's killer was released by Adolf Hitler, and Nabokov had to move to Paris. Three years later he fled from the advancing German Armies to the United States, with his wife and son. In 1940 he crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the Champlain, where he had a first class cabin, paid with the money from the composer Sergei Rachmaninov. In 1945 Nabokov became a citizen of the United States. He taught literature at Cornell University and worked as entomologist at Harward University, becoming a distinguished lepidopterist. He published short stories in the Atlantic and the New Yorker in English, while still writing his memoirs in Russian, agonizing to switch from Russian to English. It took him 6 years to complete "Lolita", a controversial story of a pedophile's desire for a 12-year-old girl, who reminds him of the little girl he loved as a boy. The novel was banned in America and the UK until 1958. He later wrote a screenplay for Stanley Kubrick, director of 'Lolita (1962)' .

In 1960 Nabokov moved to Switzerland and made his home at the Montreaux Palace Hotel. His collection of butterflies multiplied with his many entomological expeditions. He never learned to drive a car, and he depended on his wife Vera to drive him around. And he continued composing chess problems. In 1964 Nabokov published his four-volume translation of "Eugene Onegin" by Alexander Pushkin, on which he worked for 10 years. He also undertook English translations of the works by Mikhail Lermontov. His later works: "Ada" (1969), "Transparent Things" (1972), and the autobiographic "Look at the Harlequins" (1975), were translated into Russian by his son Dmitri. The Nabokov family mansion in St. Petersburg is now a Nabokov's Museum. His first collection of butterflies is part of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harward University. His last and most valiable butterfly collection was bequeathed to the Zoology Museum in Lausanne.

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IMDb mini-biography by

Steve Shelokhonov

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Spouse

Vera Evseevna Slonim

(15 April 1925 - 2 July 1977) (his death) 1 child

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Trivia

He was born under the Julian calendar on April 10, 1899. At the time this would have been April 22 by the Gregorian calendar, and this is often quoted as his birthday. But Russia remained on the Julian calendar until 1918, by which time the Gregorian date equivalent to April 10 had shifted to April 23 -- the date that Nabokov actually celebrated.