Famous Soviet actors. Anatoly Papanov. Oleg Yankovsky. Nikolai Grinko. Nikolai Eremenko Jr

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The idols of millions of Soviet viewers still delight us with their talent thanks to the broadcasts of old films that are gradually disappearing. The list of famous Soviet actors is quite large, this article presents brief biographies of only four popular artists. Each of which left a noticeable mark in the national cinema.

Anatoly Dmitrievich Papanov

The actor was born on October 31, 1922 in the small town of Vyazma, Smolensk province, where a monument is now erected to him. Anatoly Dmitrievich's father was the commander of the Red Army, in his spare time he participated in the amateur theatrical activities of the military garrison. When children were needed for productions, they were played by Anatoly or his sister. In 1930 the family moved to Moscow.

Papanov studied poorly, so he went to work early. He got a job as a foundry worker in the repair shops of the plant. At the same time, he began to study at the theater studio at the Kauchuk plant, soon becoming the main star of the amateurtroupe.

At the age of 15 he made his film debut, playing a very small role in the film "Lenin in October" (1937), which was not even indicated in the credits. Before the war, he managed to appear in four more films. Fought from the first days of the war. In 1942, after being seriously wounded, Anatoly Papanov was discharged.

Acting career

After graduating from GITIS, he worked at the Klaipeda Russian Drama Theater, and since 1948 at the Moscow Theater of Satire. In his younger years, the actor Anatoly Papanov played only minor and episodic roles in theatrical productions. Only in 1954 he was entrusted with the first significant role. When it was necessary to urgently replace a sick artist.

The first serious film work was the role of General Serpilin in the military drama "The Living and the Dead" (1964), after which he began to act a lot. Papanov, one of the few well-known Soviet actors who were given equally convincing dramatic and comedic roles. Although the audience fell in love with him thanks to his roles in the famous comedies by Leonid Gaidai "The Diamond Hand" and Eldar Ryazanov's "Beware of the Car". Papanov's voice was spoken by the Wolf from the popular Soviet cartoon "Well, you wait!". The last work of the actor was the role in the film "The Cold Summer of 53rd …".

Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky

One of the most famous Soviet actors of the post-war generation has become a real sex symbol of the country. Yankovsky was born on February 23, 1944 in a smallKazakh town of Karsakpay, in the family of a former guards officer. Soon they moved to Saratov. Oleg was nine years old when his father died from wounds received during the First World War. The family lived hard, three children were supported by one mother.

At the age of 14, Oleg was taken in by his older brother Rostislav, who worked at the Minsk Drama Theatre. Here Yankovsky made his stage debut, replacing the travesty actress who played the boy Edik in AD Salynsky's "Drummer Girl". After graduation, he entered the Saratov Theater School. As it turned out, a few months after the start of studies, they accepted him instead of the middle brother Nikolai, who passed the creative competition. They were simply confused. He was taken to the local theater only thanks to the insistence of his wife, actress Lyudmila Zorina. And for a long time the actor Oleg Yankovsky was known in the city as the husband of the star of the Saratov theater.

A true Aryan and a good friend

He got into the cinema almost by accident, in 1968 in Lvov, where the Saratov theater was on tour, he was noticed by members of the film crew of the film "Shield and Sword". Who could not find an artist for the role of Heinrich Schwarzkopf. Then they noticed a young man with a "typically Aryan appearance." In the same year, the actor played his second famous role - the Red Army soldier Andrei Nekrasov in the revolutionary drama Two Comrades Were Serving. After these pictures, he became a famous and sought-after actor in cinema and theater, where he began to be given serious roles.

In 1973director Mark Zakharov invited Yankovsky to the famous Lenkom, where his first job was the role of Goryaev in the production play "Avtograd XXI". In this theater, Oleg Yankovsky worked almost until his death, playing the main roles in many classical and modern performances. With Zakharov, he starred in the films "An Ordinary Miracle" (1976) and "The Same Munchausen" (1979).

The famous Soviet actor Yankovsky has played in about a hundred films, including "Mirror", "Doctor Zhivago", "Regicide" and "We, the undersigned". The last picture was Pavel Lungin's film "Tsar" (2008), where he played Metropolitan Philip.

Nikolai G. Grinko

Few people already remember this famous Soviet actor who played in more than 130 films. Nikolai Grigorievich Grinko was born on May 20, 1920 in Ukraine in the city of Kherson, where he spent his childhood. Parents often took him with them to work in the theater, where his father worked as an actor, and his mother as an assistant director. From an early age, he dreamed of becoming an actor. He first appeared on stage at the age of five. After leaving school, he entered the theater institute, but did not pass the competition. Then the war began, on the fronts of which he spent four years.

After demobilization, he worked as an assistant director, then as an actor in various Ukrainian theaters. In 1949 he graduated from the studio theater at the Zaporizhia Theatre. Since 1955, the artistic director and artist of the Kyiv Symphonic Jazz VarietyOrchestra "Dnipro" During this period, Grinko performed a lot with parody and comedy numbers.

Carlo's best dad

Since 1951, actor Nikolai Grinko began acting in films. In 1961, he got his first big film role as an American driver in The World Incoming. For this work, he was awarded a prize - a Studebaker car, however, the actor was not allowed to receive it. Grinko's acting talent was greatly appreciated by the famous director Andrei Tarkovsky, with whom he starred in the films "Ivan's Childhood", "Passion for Andrei" and "Stalker".

However, this famous Soviet actor was most remembered by the Soviet audience for the role of Papa Carlo from the film "The Adventures of Pinocchio" (1976) and Professor Gromov from "The Adventures of Electronics" (1979). The tall, lean artist endowed many of his heroes with kindness, warmth and wisdom, great positive charm.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Eremenko Jr

Born February 14, 1949 in the Belarusian city of Vitebsk, in an acting family. After graduating from high school, on the second attempt he entered VGIK. Moreover, he never hid that he got into a prestigious institute thanks to his father, People's Artist of the USSR Nikolai Eremenko. From 1971 to 1976 he worked at the Theater-Studio of the Film Actor, then he focused on cinema.

The debut on the big screen took place in 1969 in Gerasimov's film "By the Lake". This was followed by shooting in popular Soviet films, inincluding "Red and Black" (1976), "Going through the throes" (1977) and "Tavern on Pyatnitskaya". In 1980, he was recognized as the best actor in the country for the role of senior mechanic Sergei Sergeevich in the first Soviet action movie "Pirates of the XX century". After this film, Eremenko became not just a famous Soviet actor, but a superstar of Russian cinema.

In subsequent years, he starred a lot, among the best films are "In Search of Captain Grant", "In the Beginning of Glorious Deeds" and "Sniper". The last role of the actor was the father of Cosmos in the cult television series "Brigada", which was released a year after the death of Nikolai Eremenko.