Mikhail Artemyevich Kuznetsov (Russian: Михаил Артемьевич Кузнецов; 25 February 1918 – 23 August 1986)[2] was a Soviet film and theater actor.

At some point, he and his mother moved to Moscow, and he completed his education in a professional technical school.

[1] His debut role was in Mikhail Gavronski [ru]'s 1940 film The Friends(Russian: Приятели, romanized: Priyateli).

[5] After his role as Alexey Solovyov in Yuli Raizman's Mashenka, Kuznetsov began to be noticed by other directors.

After being evacuated to Alma-Ata in the first years of World War Two, Kuznetsov performed roles in several films, including Ivan Pyryev and Iosif Kheifits, the latter of which he would name "one of his directors", alongside Raizman.