Felix Antipov is a famous Soviet and Russian actor. He played in the cinema and theater. He had the title of "People's Artist of Russia".
Actor Biography
Felix Antipov was born in Moscow. He was born in 1942, in the midst of the Great Patriotic War.
After he graduated from high school, he went to work in an orchestra, as he had a craving for music. He played the trombone and various percussion instruments. After he went to serve in the army.
Later in his memoirs, Felix Antipov admitted that if he had not entered the theater school, he would most likely have connected his life with music.
His fate was such that he entered the Shchukin school on the first attempt. It didn’t even take him several years, like many other actors who later became famous. He was engaged in the creative workshop of the People's Artist of the RSFSR Anna Orochko. The famous theater actress, who played several roles in the movie.
Choice way
Even while studying at the theater school, Felix Antipov proved himself to be a man who seeks to dishonestly make money. At least according to the laws of that time. He was tried for illegal currency transactions. Got three years probation.
He graduated from the school in 1968. Despite the vicissitudes of the law, he had no problems with employment. Yuri Lyubimov called him to the Taganka Theater, and Andrei Goncharov to the Mayakovsky Theater. These directors valued talent more than political unreliability.
But at the same time, communicating with Antipov, Goncharov recalled a suspended sentence, saying that he would have to keep an eye on him in the theater. Lyubimov reacted very differently, saying that he knew everything, but he didn’t care. The choice in favor of the Taganka theater was obvious. In addition, his musical talents and excellent vocal data fell to the court here. In many productions, he played several musical instruments.
Taganka Theater
At the Taganka Theater in 1968, Felix Antipov made his debut. The actor played the role of Motyakov in the play "Alive" based on the novel of the same name by Boris Mozhaev. True, the fate of the production was short-lived. A year later, she was banned by the Soviet Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva. It was a play about the confrontation of the peasant living in the Ryazan region with the collective farm authorities.
Soon Antipov Felix Nikolaevich became one of the leading actors of the theater. It was very difficult, because Lyubimov was often accused of leaving unfairly little space for actors in his productions. This experimental path, along with the troupe, also went through Antipov. Like everyone else, he often played in the performances of Lyubimov in several episodic, sometimes even unnamed roles in one performance.
But there were loud, notable works in his career:
- Marmeladov’s role in Crime and Punishment;
- Fedor in The Brothers Karamazov;
- Chichikov in the “Audit Tale” based on the Gogol's “Inspector”;
- Orgona in Tartuffe by the French playwright Moliere.
The last of these roles, he first performed in 1968, and then played it until his death.
Theater critics noted that Lyubimov was particularly passionate about Antipov as an actor. Gave him roles in almost all productions.
Movie roles
In 1971, the first films in which Felix Antipov made his debut appeared on wide screens. The filmography of the actor began with the film of Ilya Averbakh "Drama from Ancient Life." This is a love story of a count hairdresser and a serf actress. Antipov got the role of a priest.
In total, he has several tens of roles. Moreover, mainly in Russian, not Soviet cinema. Before the collapse of the USSR, he still played Unclean Force in the tale of Boris Rytsarev “Ivan da Marya”, the foreman of Sizykh in the detective Oleg Goyda “Loop” and appeared in an episodic role in the phantasmagoric parable of Vadim Abdrashitov “Servant”.
Then followed a long break, during which the actor concentrated on theatrical works.
Azazel and others
His return to domestic cinema took place in 2002. Got a role in the detective Alexander Adabashyan "Azazel" Felix Antipov. Films in which he played in the 2000s mainly became popular with viewers. In this adaptation of Boris Akunin’s novels, the hero of our article played the role of Xavier Feofilaktovich Grushin.
The actor also noted his work in the comedy drama Oleg Babitsky and Yuri Goldin "Theatrical novel" (played by Likospastov), ​​the melodramatic musical film Leonid Rybakov "The Book Thieves" (played the role of a philosophizing elevator), and the action movie of Pyotr Buslov "Boomer. The Second Movie" (in the image of Uncle) Misha), the biographical drama of Nikolai Dostal's “Testament of Lenin” about the fate of the Soviet dissident writer Varlam Shalamov (played by Ignatius Kornilievich).
He took part even in domestic sitcoms. For example, many may recall him as General Polezhaikin from the situational comedy sitcom Daddy's Daughters.
Recent movie work
In recent years, Antipov also played several prominent roles in domestic films.
In 2009, in the melodramatic comedy series Sergey Korotaev, Alexander Koruchekov and Dmitry Petrun "Sleeping Area". He played the role of the brother of one of the main characters of Anna Maslova.
In 2010, appeared in one of the series of the series "Univer" in the image of a veteran cosmonaut.
In 2011, he was entrusted with the role of the USSR Minister of Defense Dmitry Yazov in the drama of Alexander Mokhov "Yeltsin. Three days in August." This is a picture that details the events in Russia in August 1991, when the fierce confrontation between Boris Yeltsin and the GKChP begins.
In 2016, Antipov died. The actor died after a long illness. He was 73 years old.