Feodor Chaliapin was the first performer to be awarded ... He also worried about his many children: he had 11. The attitude of the new socialist authorities was ambivalent. On one hand, they ...

Feodor Chaliapin Jr., who blossomed into an octogenarian movie star after 60 years of mostly bit parts and cameos, died Sept. 17 in Rome. He was 87 and had been a resident of Rome since shortly ...

Photo credit: Museum of Anton Chekhov in Yalta / youtube.com The 150th anniversary of the birth of Feodor Chaliapin is celebrated on Monday, February, 13, according to BIOGRAPH. The legendary opera ...

Feodor Chaliapin Jr., an American actor best known for his role as the dog-walking grandfather in the 1987 movie “Moonstruck,” died Sept. 17 after a brief illness at his home in Rome ...

He was 87. Chaliapin was the son and namesake of the Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin. He played the dog-walking grandfather in Moonstruck, a 1987 release starring Cher and Nicolas Cage.