Leonid Parfyonov

Leonid Parfyonov

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: Acting

Born: Cherepovets, USSR [now Russia], 1960-01-26

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1988	Children of the 20th Congress	Host	0
2	1997	Old Songs about the Main Thing 2		50
3	1999	The Age of Nabokov		0
4	2000	Still Waters	Himself	22
5	2005	Bashlachev. The Flight of Death	himself	0
6	2006	And Personally Leonid Ilyich	Narrator	80
7	2009	Gogol the Bird	Himself (host)	77
8	2010	Zvorykin-Muromets	Narrator	60
9	2011	He Came to Give Us Freedom		0
10	2011	Generation P	TV Journalist	63
11	2011	Boris Godunov	Schelkalov	54
12	2012	Хлеб для Сталина. Истории раскулаченных		0
13	2012	Eye of God	Himself (Presenter)	70
14	2013	Russia in Bloom	Himself (Host and Narrator)	64
15	2014	The Term. Beginning of a Big Story	Self (uncredited)	42
16	2016	Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.	Himself (Presenter)	74
17	2017	Russian Jews. Part Two. 1918-1948.	Himself (Presenter)	82
18	2017	Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.	Himself (Presenter)	78
19	2020	Russian Georgians. Part 1	himself (presentor)	60
20	2020	Leaves. A New Look	himself	0
21	2021	Namedni-1921 Capablanca. Hunger in the Volga region. March 8. Youth Theater. Homeless children		0
22	2021	Namedni-2020-1. Covid. Remote. Resetting. Traffic accident with Efremov. Screenlife		0
23	2021	In Qvevri Veritas		0
24	2021	Namedni-2020-2. Tiktok. Beirut. Khabarovsk. Belarus. Karabakh. Morgenstern. Navalny and poison	self	73
25	2022	Russian Georgians. Part 2	himself (presentor)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1961	KVN	Judge	65
2	1997	Namedni	Self	100
3	1998	Fort Boyard Russia	Self - Host	100
4	2000	Russian Empire	Presenter	0
5	2012	Evening Urgant	Self	72
6	2017	vDud	Guest	60
7	2019	Без души	Гость	0
8	2022	Karamora	Emperor	60

Leonid Parfyonov

Film

Television