Alexey Loktev was incredibly popular and in demand in the 60s of the last century. The actor himself, like his partner in the film “Farewell, doves!”, Is attributed to people with a failed creative fate. However, two such cult films as “Farewell, doves!” and “I am walking in Moscow”, in which Alexey Vasilyevich starred in the leading roles, forever entered his name into the list of stars of Soviet cinema.
Gone Idols
Alexei Loktev himself did not like the words that came into our vocabulary after the collapse of Soviet ideology. "Star", "cult" - it's not all about him. “Idol” - yes, he was an idol. And the last (2006) film in which he played himself is called “How Idols Left”. People of the older generation remember the images created by him in such films as “The Life of Klim Samghin” or “Reward (posthumously).”
And in other roles, he was always good, and the images created by him cause nostalgia for those glorious times, to which the songs “So we began to grow up for a year ...” and “And I go, I walk around Moscow ...”.
Car accident victim
Alexey Loktev added to the endless list of actors who died in car accidents. And this death, not through his own fault, seems even more tragic because the artist, who seemed to have forever broken his career and life with alcoholism, managed to return to a normal human and creative life and even create his own theater.
Heredity
The creative biography of Alexey Loktev began with an episode in the popular film “Different Fates” by L. Lukov, which appeared on the screen in 1956. The young man was 17 years old, and he had already tried to enter VGIK, but did not enter the competition with the motivation “not photogenic”.
About the actor’s career as the only possible boy dreamed of since childhood. He inherited a craving for theater from his mother, who herself was a talented actress of amateur theater. Her talent is evidenced by the fact that the leaders of the Moscow Art Theater, who toured the Urals, noted her work and was invited to Moscow. But the parents did not let go.
The beginning of the creative path
Alexey Loktev was born in 1939 in Orsk, but already in 1943 he became a Muscovite, as his father was transferred to the capital. The boy went to both the school and the actor’s studio at ZIL. There, over the years of training, Alexei replayed many roles from Pinocchio to Mercutio and, of course, dreamed of continuing to go on the stage. Therefore, he began to act immediately after school at VGIK.
After the failure, only mother and son grieved, the father was glad and took the young man to his factory. Likhachev. However, a year later A. Loktev successfully passes the entrance exams, and he is enrolled as a student at the Theater Institute. Lunacharsky.
First success
And immediately in the first year, Alexey Loktev is an actor. He was invited to the main role of Genka in the film "Farewell, doves!" They invited him persistently, since he sacredly believed in his non-photogenicity and was hiding from assistant directors Jacob Segel. The picture was released in 1961, and incredible popularity fell upon the young man (in the film introduced himself to the girl “Gennady, written with two“ n ”).
The most stellar role and further career
In 1962, after graduating from GITIS, he entered the theater. Pushkin. Alexey Loktev (actor), whose biography in big cinema began more than successfully, working in the theater, continues to act in films. The second picture brings him all-Union fame.
And the role of Siberian Volodya Ermakova, who turned out to be travel in Moscow, became his most stellar. Then, one after another, work began in the paintings “First Snow”, “Our Home”, “Tunnel”, “In Russia”. All the paintings were diverse, the popular actor did an excellent job with the roles. He was loved and recognizable. After 10 years of service in the theater. Pushkin Alexei Loktev in 1972 transferred to the Maly Theater, where he worked until 1980. Then he moved to Leningrad and became an actor in the
Drama Theater. Pushkin.
Hard years
Outside the 80s. Too many actors did not endure the heavy perestroika time. Yevgeny Matveev, who until the year 1986 served as secretary of the Union of Cinematographers, could not say without tears that the salary of a theater actor is equal to the cost of a sausage stick, and there is little that can be done. Actor Alexei Loktev, whose personal life was also not cloudless, began to drink heavily in Leningrad. In the city on the Neva, he lived with his youngest son and common-law wife Elena Alekseevna Usenko, because of a serious illness which later they both moved to the village of Kalinino (Tver Region). The official wife, theater actress at the Liteiny S. M. Loshchinina-Lokteva, dies in 1988.
Director Talent
But Alexey Vasilievich had the strength and courage to start a new life. In 1989, he returned to Moscow. He is taken to the Glas Theater, which was directed by Nikita Astakhov. A.V. Loktev in the 90s tries himself in directing. He was staged performances that did not go unnoticed by the public and criticism: "I will be back!" (about Igor Talkov), "I believe!" (pr to the works of Shukshin), “Fedor and Anya” (about the last love of F. Dostoevsky). “The last love of Dostoevsky”, in which A. Loktev was a director and played a major role, on the stage of the theater named after Mayakovsky walked with great success for several years. The actor and director creates his own theater (TAL), and the musical and poetic performance “Visions on the Hill”, dedicated to Nikolai Rubtsov, was a great success with the audience.
Actor's death
In September 2006, Alexei Vasilievich Loktev arrives at the Amur Autumn Film Festival. Actors and directors visited the surrounding villages with concerts. The car in which A. Loktev, the chairman of the jury of the Novozhilov festival, his assistants and the driver, crashed at a huge speed into a minibus traveling along the main road. Alexey Vasilyevich died on the way to the hospital. Just before his death, the Honored Actor of the RSFSR, State Prize laureate (the role of Pavel Korchagin in the play “Dramatic Song”) A. Loktev gave an interview in which he said that he lives powerfully, interestingly and is generally in harmony with himself. The actor was buried at the Volkovsky cemetery in St. Petersburg.
Alexei Loktev left four children and five grandchildren. In each article about him, it is noted that the husband of the eldest daughter is the soloist of the group "Alice" Konstantin Kinchev. The song of this group called "What Next" is dedicated to Loktev.