Krasnopolsky Alexey: childhood and the career of a popular actor

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Krasnopolsky Alexey - Honored Art Worker of the USSR, popular theater and film actor. He lived a bright life filled with interesting events and meetings. He had a lot of fans in the Soviet Union and beyond. In the article, the reader will get acquainted with the key moments of the biography of the remarkable actor Alexei Krasnopolsky.

Childhood years of a popular actor

Alyosha was born in the summer of 1904 in the small Volga town of Penza. There were no representatives of the arts in the Krasnopolsky family. Parents were simple workers at the factory. But the boy from childhood grew up as a very creative child. He loved to draw, read detective stories and adventure novels, and learned to play the guitar. The father wanted his son to go in for sports more, and gave him to the football section, which, however, was of little interest to the boy. He was attracted to the stage, so Alexey took part in school performances with pleasure.

The teachers praised the talented boy and advised him to enter the theater. Krasnopolsky did just that,after graduating from school, he entered the Penza Theater and Film Studio. An active young man could not sit idle for a long time. In his second year, Alexey Krasnopolsky got a job in a popular traveling theater. Here he worked for about five years. The artistic director often noted the great potential of the young man.

On the theater stage

In early 1930, Alexei was invited to the troupe of the Saratov Theater. The young man, without thinking twice, decided to leave his native city and moved to Saratov. On the stage of the Saratov Theater, he played in many performances and earned wild popularity among local residents.

However, soon Alex decided to move to Ukraine, where he was immediately accepted into the best drama theater in Kharkov. Here the young man became famous as an actor who could play any role: from charming hooligans to beautiful knights. However, this theater was not the last in the career of Krasnopolsky Alexei. After the Great Patriotic War, he went to the N. V. Gogol Theater. As the actor said in his interviews, he never regretted that he had chosen this place. He liked everything about the theatre, from the atmosphere to the management.

Aleksey Krasnopolsky in the world of cinema

The film debut took place when the actor was 35 years old. Director Vladimir Brown offered him a role in the film "Sailors". Alexey played a positive, courageous and responsible hero. The image created by the actor has become associated with many viewersa real man.

The appearance of this bright actor on the screens of the country did not go unnoticed. Many directors have taken an interest in them. Soon the audience was able to see Alexei in Leonid Lukov's film "Big Life". Here he also plays in all respects the right, positive hero - the party worker Ilya.

The actor gained great popularity after the release of the adventure film "The Mysterious Island", based on the popular novel by Jules Verne. The picture tells about the brave and brave travelers trying to survive on a desert island. In the filmography of the actor, the following works can also be distinguished: "The Golden Echelon" (film, 1959), "Outpost in the Mountains" (1953) and "If You're Right…" (1963).

Private life

Companions of the popular actor were colleagues in the service shop. Alexei's first wife was Anna Strizhova. The young man looked after the chosen one very beautifully, and she agreed to become his wife (although initially she did not have feelings for the young man). The couple has long been considered a model of love and fidelity. They lived without noisy scandals, practically did not quarrel and were always together. Alexei often told reporters that his family was much more important to him than his career and social events. However, unexpectedly for many, the couple broke up.

For the second time, Alexei also chose an actress as his wife - Emilia Milton. He lived with her until his death. The couple are buried next to each other at the Vvedensky cemetery.