The audience of the older generation, the actor Lev Prygunov, whose filmography includes several dozens of diverse paintings, is known for the roles of Dima Bondarenko from "Children of Don Quixote", "Frenchman" from "Tavern on Pyatnitskaya", Uncle Leva, who kidnapped the boy Anton from the "Criminal Quartet". .. Younger spectators remember him in completely different roles in more modern films - the blind Glushko from The Shootout Game, Viktor Sergeyevich, Katya's father from Still I Love ..., Ivan Ilyich Morozov from The Marines.
Childhood. Sudden death of father
The future actor Lev Prygunov (his filmography is vast and diverse) was born in April 1939 in Alma-Ata. His father was George Prygunov - a teacher, a botanist, a natural scientist. He fought in World War II.
Leva was only seven years old when dad taught him to shoot well. At twelve the boy went hunting. George died tragically when his son was only ten years old. In 1949, Prygunov Sr. led schoolchildren, including Leo, into the mountains, on a biological expedition. In one of the gorges he found a purple thrush nest - on top of a mountain. This bird was called "blue." The next morning, George went to the nest and died. The son suggested that the father fell off the cliff. Lev Prygunov forever remembered this terrible day on which his father died in his arms.
Mom's Relatives
Since that time, all the cares for raising the boy fell on the shoulders of his mother, Tamara Nikolaevna, who worked as a teacher. Her family had 14 children. Many babies died in infancy, but eight survived. Leo's grandfather - Tamara's father - was an archpriest, he had a parish in one of the villages of the Tyumen region. He died as a martyr in 1918, when the Civil War was on. One of the seizures of the village by the Red Army turned out to be the last for the grandfather. Upon learning that the White Guard officer once lived in his grandfather’s hut, the soldiers mocked the old man, dragging him by the hair in the village for a couple of hours. Parishioners begged for pardon from the execution, to which the grandfather was sentenced. He was released, but this did not save him: in a couple of days he died.
After the death of George, the father of the protagonist, his (George) wife - Leo's mother - became seriously ill, lay in the hospital for a long time. Therefore, the boy spent a lot of time in childhood with aunts.
The way from an ordinary dream to its fulfillment
The future actor Lev Prygunov, whose photo can now be seen on the pages of glossy publications, grew up a quiet and reserved boy. He almost did not communicate with peers, he did not study very well and read little. Like his father, Leva often went to the steppes and forests, where he studied wildlife. Since childhood, the boy was fond of ornithology and botany.
Trying to extend and strengthen the memory of his father, he even became a student of the Faculty of Biology of the Alma-Ata Pedagogical Institute, thinking that he would become a biology teacher. But there, Leo survived only two years.
An innate craving for art made itself felt. After all, it was her Leo who suppressed, mindful of his scientist father. Now he began to understand his own path. So Lev Prygunov, whose filmography is known to many, took documents from the pedagogical institute and left for Leningrad. In the city on the Neva, he immediately entered the Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography (course of Tatyana Sotnikova).
After its graduation, the aspiring actor began to play on the stages of various theaters - the Drama Theater. Stanislavsky, Theater Studio, film actor and others.
The beginning of the creative path
Until now, Lev Georgievich believes that his most beloved, best and most dear to his heart is his debut, “Leaving to the Shore”. Then he was a third-year student. It was from these shootings that the filmography of Lev Prygunov began to replenish. Other films with his participation later appeared on the screens: “They went east” (Italian soldier Bazzoti), “Children of Don Quixote” (Dima Bondarenko, the doctor’s middle son), “Step from the Roof” (Glum), “Missing Expedition "(Kazankov) and many others.
At the same time, at the same time as having a successful career start, the young actor refused to cooperate with the Soviet special services, for which he was excommunicated for several years from domestic cinema, and he could not go abroad either. But time passed, the situation improved. Jumpers again began to act in film.
The time of perestroika was quite difficult for many actors, so Lev Georgievich had to take up work, to which his soul did not lay especially. The filmography of Lev Prygunov nonetheless consists of a significant number of rather interesting and successful works. These include “How the Steel Was Tempered,” “The Heart of Bonivur,” “Charlotte’s Necklace,” “The Criminal Quartet,” “Born of the Revolution,” “The Shootout Game,” “Operational Alias” ...
Grey Cardinal
Despite dozens of roles played, this one again attracted the attention of the general public to a talented actor.
10 years ago, the TV series “And Still I Love” was released, which told the story of the not-so-happy life of a simple girl, Vera, who, by chance, met a guy from a very decent family. As they would say now, the guy belongs to the "golden youth". They start a romance. But before Vera, Vadim (the same guy) met with Katya, whose father was Victor Sergeyevich. It was him who was played by Lev Prygunov. Filmography (TV shows occupy a significant place in it) of this actor is very extensive.
Viktor Sergeyevich has been friends with Vadim's parents for many years and completely agrees with them on the issue of uniting their two families thanks to the wedding of children. But life decided everything in its own way. Having caught Katya in the company of a stranger, Vadik breaks off all relations with her and starts dating Vera. Yes, she is a girl of “not their circle”, awkward, does not know much. But she is very sincere. And Vadim likes this. Victor Sergeyevich, seeing everything that is happening and wanting to help Katya to regain her lost groom, seeks to destroy the relationship of Vera and Vadim in all possible ways. Anna Bronislavovna, the mother of Vadim, who at the wedding of her son with Vera concludes an agreement with Viktor Sergeyevich that he will contribute to the fact that this marriage does not last long, is adding fuel to the fire.
And Viktor Sergeyevich is trying. He arranges an internship for Vadik in Paris. Katya flies with him. At this time, having pressed on the young driver Sergey, he forces him to tell a tale that this guy and Vera are lovers.
Now the filmography of Lev Prygunov would not be complete without such a hero. Many more ugly actions were performed by the character of Leo Prygunov. One can only be surprised at the accuracy of each gesture, facial expressions, intonation with which the actor uttered each phrase and played his scenes.
About personal
Not always easy and fun was an actor named Lev Prygunov biography. His personal life, children, photos, biography have been of interest to viewers for many years.
The first time he married in the mid-sixties. His wife was called Ella. In this marriage, the only son of the actor was born - Roman. Now he is a famous filmmaker. Unfortunately, a long and happy life did not work: in a terrible car accident, Ella crashed to death.
For Lev Georgievich, what happened was a huge tragedy. He hardly realized that he remained a single father. At first, the grandmother helped to raise the boy, and when she died two years later, Roma was assigned to a boarding school, where children and other actors studied.
Despite this situation, he and his son still have wonderful friendships. As soon as the actor had a free minute, he took Roma to him. They went to rest together, spent together all the time that was possible at that time.
Second marriage
With his second wife, Olga Lev Prygunov, whose personal life and filmography are still of interest to ordinary people, he met only six years after the tragedy. And although she is sixteen years younger than her husband, their union has been going on for three and a half decades.
It was Olga who helped him raise Roman, for which the adopted son is still grateful to her.
His life today
Actor Lev Prygunov (his filmography and biography is still of interest to admirers of his talent) continues to be removed to this day. This year the release of the detective thriller Dead Lake is planned. The plot of the picture revolves around a town in the middle of the taiga. At the very beginning of the story, the strange murder of the daughter of a local tycoon. The capital’s Interior Ministry official is involved in the investigation. To complete his new assignment, he will need to learn about the secret life of the town.
Almost all the free time Leo Prygunov, whose filmography is very diverse, devotes to drawing. After all, the actor has been engaged in this type of art for almost half a century. He writes still lifes in the style of energy realism. He also writes poetry and publishes poetry collections.