Actor Igor Ilyinsky: biography, creativity

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Igor Ilyinsky is one of the most prominent theater actors of the first half of the 20th century. Igor Vladimirovich rarely appeared in films, but, as they say, aptly: his face will forever be remembered by the audience for the role of Comrade Ogurtsov in Carnival Night and Field Marshal Kutuzov in The Hussar Ballad. And how did the career of a famous artist begin and what films did he star in?

Early years

Igor Ilyinsky was born in 1901. His father was a simple Moscow doctor during the day, and in the evening shone on amateur theater stages. Little Igor loved to attend his father's performances, but once, when Vladimir Kapitonovich was beaten on stage by his colleague, as required by the script, Igor yelled at the whole audience: “Don't you dare beat my dad!” More Igor Ilyinsky was not taken to performances.

However, the future actor solved the problem of his leisure very creatively: he independently composed a comic play, rehearsed his role, hung posters around the house and made homemade tickets for the performance. For your first“Salary” the boy dreamed of buying a horse and taking up private carriage. But his dreams did not come true. Soon horses were replaced by cars everywhere, and Igor got a new hobby - theater.

Career start

Igor Ilyinsky, whose biography is inextricably linked with the theater, at the age of 14 received a strict ban from his father on getting an acting profession. According to Vladimir Kapitonovich, his son did not have acting talent. But when Igor turned 16, his father was hospitalized with a heart attack. The young man was left to himself, so he went to enter the Komissarzhevsky acting school, and who would have thought he was accepted!

Ilyinsky's comedy gift was reviewed by director Vsevolod Meyerhold. In 1920, he invited an actor to serve in his theater and literally created a comedy star out of him. Once Igor Ilyinsky did such a good job with his role in the play "The Magnanimous Cuckold" that the audience rushed onto the stage and began to swing the actor in their arms.

In 1924, Ilyinsky began his film career. His first film is "Aelita" by Yakov Protazanov. In it, Igor Vladimirovich played the role of an amateur detective Kravtsov.

Volga, Volga

Igor Ilyinsky in 1938 played in the famous comedy "Volga, Volga" by Grigory Alexandrov. Subsequently, this picture became Stalin's favorite film.

At the center of the plot of the film is an amateur acting troupe sailing down the Volga on a steamboat to Moscow to take partin an amateur competition. The main roles in the comedy were played by Lyubov Orlova (“Merry Fellows”) and, in fact, Igor Ilyinsky, who got the role of official Ivan Ivanovich Byvalov.

The hero of Ilyinsky is a bureaucrat and an avid careerist. It is not for nothing that he bears the surname Byvalov: he is self-confident, believes that he knows everything and understands everything, therefore he does not want to listen to anyone. This is the comicality of this character - with a smart face, Byvalov does big stupid things. In addition, the importance and pomposity of any official cannot but make ordinary people laugh.

The value of the film lies not only in the talented cast, but also in good musical accompaniment: songs from the film were once broadcast on all-Union radio.

Crazy Day

Igor Ilyinsky, whose filmography consists entirely of comedies, in 1956 played a major role in Andrey Tutyshkin's film Crazy Day.

Ilyinsky's character - comrade Zaitsev - is the caretaker of nurseries. By all means, he needs to paint the furniture white, but there is no paint available. To get the deficit, Zaitsev needs to get into the rest house and talk there with one person, but here's the problem: outsiders are not allowed into the territory. The whole comedy of the picture lies in the fact that the character of Ilyinsky pretends to be another person - a certain husband of the athlete Ignatyuk, but soon the real husband of Klava Ignatyuk really stays in the specified rest house.

Together with Igor Ilyinsky, she also played in the filmAnastasia Georgievskaya ("The Big Break"), Serafima Birman ("Don Quixote") and Vladimir Volodin ("Kuban Cossacks"). The director of the film Andrey Tutyshkin also shot the films Free Wind and Wedding in Malinovka.

Carnival Night

Ilyinsky's acting work was highly valued in the Soviet Union: the actor was considered one of the highest paid and was the winner of numerous prizes and awards. But the role of Ogurtsov in Eldar Ryazanov's well-known comedy "Carnival Night" made Ilyinsky a real celebrity.

According to the plot of the film, the creative team of the House of Culture is faced with the task of holding the New Year's event as worthy and fun as possible. And Lenochka Krylova, performed by Lyudmila Gurchenko, is trying her best. But on the eve of the holiday, a new boss is appointed to the House of Culture - Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov - who cuts all Krylova's undertakings on the go: he tries to replace the old art numbers with new, "serious", gray and boring. The comedy begins when the staff of the House of Culture decides to take a desperate step to hold a holiday without the direct participation of Comrade Ogurtsov, leaving forbidden numbers in the program.

Hussar Ballad

Igor Ilyinsky, whose roles are mostly comedic in nature, made an exception only once, playing a serious historical figure in another film by Eldar Ryazanov - "The Hussar Ballad".

The film takes place in 1812, during the Russian-French war. Maiden Shurochkaputs on a male hussar suit and goes to fight in the hussar regiment. No one even suspects that the famous cornet Shurik is actually a girl. However, when the famous Field Marshal Kutuzov, performed by Igor Ilyinsky, arrives at headquarters, he immediately understands what's what. But after a long conversation, Kutuzov still allows Shurochka to remain in the army.

It must be said that Eldar Ryazanov long and zealously defended Ilyinsky's candidacy for this role: the artistic council was sure that the comedian would turn the image of the famous commander into an absurd farce. But that did not happen. It turned out that Ilyinsky is equally good at both serious and funny roles.

“These different, different, different faces”: Igor Ilyinsky and his many faces

Soon the actor managed to surprise his audience even more. After the release of the TV movie “These Different, Different, Different Faces” in 1971, everyone learned that Igor Ilyinsky is an actor who is able to play absolutely all the roles in any picture on his own.

Comedy consists of seven short stories, scripts for which are written on the basis of Chekhov's stories. The uniqueness of the picture is that Ilyinsky played absolutely all the characters in it on his own: ladies, men, officials, police chiefs - absolutely everyone.

Besides this, Ilyinsky also directed the film along with Yuri Saakov.

Igor Ilyinsky: biography, personal life

Igor Vladimirovich has never been distinguished by external attractiveness. In addition, in life he was very shy, so the first love came to himlate - at the age of 23. The actor fell in love with his colleague in the Meyerhold theater - Tatiana. The girl responded to him in return, and they got married.

Soon, due to a major quarrel with the director, Ilyinsky and his wife were expelled from the Meyerhold Theater. But Igor Ilyinsky, whose films were watched by the entire Soviet Union, soon returned to his former place, and his wife Tatyana was not accepted back. For a long time she was a simple housewife, and in 1945 she died under unclear circumstances.

Ilyinsky after some time married a second time - to actress Tatyana Eremeeva-Bitrich, who bore him a son. The actor himself died in 1987 at the age of 85.