Leonid Kanevsky: 4 best films with the actor

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Leonid Kanevsky was quite a popular actor in the Soviet Union. Mainly due to the role of the charming Inspector Tomin in the series of films "Experts are investigating." To this day, the face of the actor flashes on television. Let's try to figure out how the fate of the actor developed after the collapse of the USSR and where does he live now?

Kanevsky Leonid: biography

Leonid Semenovich was born in Kyiv in 1939. The father of the future actor worked as a technologist at a fruit factory, his mother was a housewife. Nothing predicted the status of a movie star for little Lena, but he showed his will, and at the age of 17 he went to Moscow to enter the theater.

Despite the fact that the young man was refused admission to the Moscow Art Theater and to the school. Shchepkin, Leonid Kanevsky successfully auditioned for the Shchukin School. It is noteworthy that such celebrities as Andrei Mironov and Vasily Livanov became fellow students of the future actor.

Kanevsky Leonid, whose biography has so far been developing successfully, after graduating from an educational institution, he was immediatelyaccepted into the theater troupe. Lenin Komsomol. The actor received his first theatrical experience under the strict guidance of director Efros (film "Two in the Steppe").

In 1963, Kanevsky began acting in films. He rarely got the main roles, but his characters were always remembered by the viewer. Unfortunately, in 1991, after the collapse of the USSR, Leonid immigrated to Israel. But even there he did not leave the acting profession: together with his friend Yevgeny Arye Kanevsky, he created the Gesher Drama Theater, in which he plays to this day.

Diamond Hand

Leonid Kanevsky prefers to play character characters. This is exactly what his hero is - a foreign smuggler - in the film "The Diamond Arm" by Eldar Ryazanov.

It is to this smuggler that Senya Gorbunkov gets by an absurd accident, and then finds himself in the center of criminal events. Kanevsky's character appears on the screen only twice, but the comical moments during which he swears in an unknown language with his accomplice are among the most striking in the film.

Experts are investigating

Leonid Kanevsky for ten years of work in the cinema still waited for his finest hour - in 1971 he got the main role in the detective series "Experts are investigating." This role made the artist a recognizable person. Inspector Tomin, played by Kanevsky, did not leave the screens from 1971 to 2003 (it was then that the shooting of the film was finally completed).

The actor got used to the image so much that many viewers mistakenly believed that he was actually a policeman in the past. Yes, and Leonid Semenovich himself was so “rooted” to his character that even the Police Day was celebrated as a personal holiday.

D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers

Who does not remember the famous comedy by Jungvald-Khilkevich "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers" with Mikhail Boyarsky in the title role? Leonid Kanevsky again got a comic role in this film - Monsieur Buanassier (Constance's husband).

Boisnassier was remembered by the viewer as a small and vile little man who, for the sake of his well-being, was ready, it seemed, to “sell his mother”. Kanevsky did a good job of conveying the character of his hero, for whom you involuntarily feel contempt. But it was not without humor, because evoking sincere laughter is that rare acting quality that Leonid Kanevsky just possesses.

Semin

Actor Leonid Kanevsky looked so natural in the role of a policeman that in 2009 he was again invited to the main role in the action-packed series about the everyday life of human rights activists.

The director of the series "Semin" was Alexander Franskevich-Laye ("In June 41st"). The script was written by Andrey Kureichik ("Lucky Horoscope"). In total, 12 episodes were filmed about the UGRO legend Boris Semin. In addition to Kanevsky, such actors as Dmitry Orlov (“Sea Patrol”), Anastasia Panina (“Two in the Rain”) and Sergey Kostylev (“Desired”) took part in the film.

The series was a success with the viewer, so in 2011 the sequel to the film "Semin: Retribution" is released. This time the audience was16 episodes are presented, directed by Sergey Lyalin ("The Gold of the Scythians").

"The investigation was conducted" with Leonid Kanevsky, as well as new movie roles

Among other things, for nine years now the actor has been the permanent host of the TV show "The investigation was conducted." It is easy to guess that the program is dedicated to criminal stories and the procedure for their disclosure by police operatives. "The investigation was conducted" repeatedly received the television award "Tefi".

Kanevsky also continues to act in films. In 2014, a film-performance called "The Inspector General" was released on television. Together with Kanevsky, Daniil Strakhov (“Joke”), as well as theater actress Larisa Paramonova, shone in the frame.

Private life

Leonid Kanevsky has a wife, Anna, who is much younger than him, a daughter, Natalya, and a granddaughter, Amalia.

Kanevsky's daughter married an Israeli citizen. She is a stylist and costume designer by profession. Recently, Natalia managed to release her own jewelry collection.

Kanevsky himself lives in Israel, but he has not sold his Moscow apartment on the Garden Ring. He often comes to shoot in Russia.