Evgeny Burenkov is a famous film and theater actor of the Soviet period. For his active creative activity in 1977, he received the title of Honored Artist of the Soviet Union. The outstanding actor devoted his whole life to the theater, where he played more than 80 roles, and to cinema, where he starred in more than 50 films of various genres: from military dramas to comedies. The heroes he embodied on the stage and screen are loved and remembered by the audience.
Childhood
Evgeny Burenkov was born in early December 1924. The place of his birth was the small village of Maloe Polozovo, which is located in the Smolensk province.
Education
Eugene Burenkov barely had time to finish school, when the Great Patriotic War began. And already in 1942 he was called to the front. It is known that he went through the whole war, and in victorious May 1945 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. When the war ended, he became the leading and reader of the ensemble of the Baltic Fleet. At the same time, he joins the party. But soon, in 1949, Evgeny Dmitrievich had to refuse performances with the ensemble, since he entered the Shchepkin Theater School. In 1954, the future talented theater and film actor successfully graduated from an educational institution.
Theatrical career
Immediately after graduating from the theater school, Evgeny Burenkov enters the Moscow Maly Theater. His theatrical activities in this institution, starting on August 1, 1954, he continued until the end of his days. Evgeny Dmitrievich not only became the leading actor of this theater, but also played in many performances, creating many interesting and diverse characters.
At the beginning of his theatrical activity, the roles were small. For example, the second merchant in the play "Profitable Place", the lackey in the theatrical production of "Woe from Wit", a fighter in "Northern Dawns" and others. But soon he began to play on the stage more serious and significant characters. For example, Seliverstova in the play "One Night", Lineva in "Money", Ignat in the production of "House of Cards" and others.
In total, in the creative piggy bank of the actor Burenkov for 34 years of work in the theater, there are 87 roles in various performances. The most significant works of Evgeny Dmitrievich are considered the following: the role of Bekhtin in The Explosion, Seregin in the production of Before Dinner, Lyapkin-Tyapkin in The Inspector General, Radamant in the play The Man Who Laughs, and others.
Cinematic career
Evgeny Burenkov, films with which the audience likes, made his film debut in 1955. Director Andrei Frolov invited him to play the role of Evgeny Medvedev in the comedy film "Guest from the Kuban". The musical picture tells how the harvesting took place, and how the young combine had to prove with his own efforts that he was already a real person. Two years later, actor Evgeny Burenkov starred in the film "Sisters" directed by Grigory Roshal. In this film, he played the role of Philemon.
In 1957, Yevgeny Burenkov, whose actor the audience knows and loves, starred in three films: “Fiery Versts”, where he played the role of Vareha, “Tight Knot” and “Night Patrol”. The most significant works of this period were roles in such films as “Three came out of the forest,” where Evgeny Dmitrievich played Gennady Skvortsov, “The Sun Shines for All,” “Cruelty,” and others.
The actor Burenkov got his first main role only in 1960, when the director Victor Eisymont suggested that Yevgeny Dmitrievich bring to life the welder team leader Ivan Degtyarev in the film “The End of the Old Berezovka”. The hero of the film decided to help his friend whose sister was pregnant, and the father of the child did not want to admit it. But, helping Lisa, Ivan himself falls in love with a woman.
Good appearance helped the outstanding actor to act in films, as most often he was offered positive characters. Actor Burenkov has always had many job offers. So, among his roles there are a large number of party and state figures, military leaders and Soviet leaders. So, very often Evgeny Dmitrievich was offered to play Vasilevsky, whom the whole country and the world know as a talented Soviet marshal. Burenkov played this role in the following films: “Liberation”, “Soldiers of Freedom”, “Stalingrad” and “Battle for Moscow”, directed by Yuri Ozerov.
In addition, the roles of Evgeny Dmitrievich in military and adventure films were also seen by the audience. This is the character of Colonel Borodin in the film "Major Whirlwind" directed by Evgeny Tashkov, and Isidor Kasyanov in the drama "Taste of Bread" directed by Alexei Sakharov, and Andrei Demushkin in the "Special Unit", and the head of the military school in "Gypsy", and others.
Despite the fact that the cinematic piggy bank of the talented actor Burenkov contains 56 works, his character of the serious and responsible Baulin in the famous film “Eternal Call” was especially remembered and loved by the audience.
Personal life
Nothing is known about the personal life of the outstanding artist. The great actor Yevgeny Dmitrievich Burenkov died on April 19, 1989 in the capital. He is buried in the suburbs.