Zharov Mikhail is a famous theater and film actor, who in 1949 received the title of People's Artist. Mikhail Ivanovich took part in more than 60 films, and also actively played on the stage. Over his entire creative life, he has performed more than 40 roles in performances. It is known that the talented actor Zharov tried his hand and as a director in the theater and cinema. Also, Mikhail Ivanovich voiced the characters of animated films.
Childhood
Zharov Mikhail was born on October 15, 1899 in the capital. His parents had nothing to do with cinema. The father of the future actor did not know his parents, since he was thrown into the Nikolaev shelter, where he later was brought up. It is known that the father of the future actor received a surname from his mentor. So he became Ivan Zharov. He worked in a printing house.
More is known about the actor’s mother. Anna Semenova Drozdova belonged to serfs who lived in the Smolensk province.
Work in the printing house
The father of the future actor worked all his life in the printing house. Therefore, when Mikhail was fourteen years old, he also arranged for him to be a student of a typesetter in a printing house.
Theatrical career
At the age of 17, Mikhail Zharov, whose biography is eventful, began to work first as an administrator, and then as an assistant in the troupe of the Zimin Opera House. But the industriousness of Mikhail Ivanovich was so high that soon they even began to trust him in the role of extras.
In 1918, Mikhail Zharov entered the theater of the Artistic and Educational Union of Workers' Organizations. Famous directors Arkady Zonov and Valery Bebutov became his teachers in this studio.
In 1918, Mikhail Ivanovich’s first debut on the theater stage took place: he played in the comedy “Windsor Pranks”, where he successfully and talented played the role of the Jester.
Two years later, after graduating from the studio, the young actor moves to the Hero Experimental Theater. He played in the play "Thunderstorm", playing the role of Kudryash and Tikhon. In the theatrical production of "Marriage" he got the character Anuchkina. Successfully he also played the role of Shanbursi in the play “Piggy Bank”.
Soon Mikhail Zharov, an actor whom the whole country knows and loves, becomes an artist of the First Mobile Art Theater of Classical Comedy, which performed at the front. Here, a talented young man played the role of Trinculo in the play "The Tempest", and Leporello in the theatrical production of "The Stone Guest". It is known that in the play "The Golden Cockerel" he successfully portrayed the stargazer. In the theatrical performance "Captain Bransbound" he also talented played the role of Drinkower.
Mikhail Zharov in 1921 began performing on the stage of the Rogozhsko-Simonovsky Theater named after Safonov, and soon moved to the GITIS Theater, where he was given mostly episodic, but very serious roles. For example, in the play Death of Tarelkin, he played Madame Brandakhlystova beautifully, and in the theatrical production Teacher Bubus, he played the secretary. Also known and talented actor played a serious episodic role of a batman in the play "Mandate".
A special place in the theatrical career of the famous actor Mikhail Zharov, whose biography and personal life is always interesting to the audience, takes part in the theater movement "Blue Blouse". This collective was engaged not only in pop performances, its main direction was agitation. They staged performances in which a variety of topics were raised. The focus could be on both international political issues and minor events from everyday routine.
This theatrical direction, which began its existence in 1920, successfully campaigned for three years. Such an unusual theater got its name because of the special clothes worn by all the actors of this theater, including Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov. A loose blue blouse and black trousers are the main costume in which the actor went out on the stage.
In 1926, Mikhail Zharov transferred to the Baku Worker Theater. After working in it for two years, he leaves it, but already in 1929 he returns again. In 1928, actor Zharov played at the Kazan Bolshoi Drama Theater. But already in 1930 he moved to the Realistic Theater. But here he did not stay long. The very next year he transferred to the Chamber Theater, where he worked for eight years. It was on his stage that he played the role of Alexei in the play “Optimistic Tragedy”.
In 1938, the famous actor Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov moved to the Maly Theater and remained working there until the end of his life. Here he played in thirty performances. So, he successfully performed the role of Kasyan in the theatrical production “My Friends”, as well as the role of Kovalev in the play “The Last Day”.
Theater Director
Mikhail Ivanovich tried his hand and as a director of theatrical performances. He staged three performances on stage. In 1938, he became the director of the production of “Full-time Headquarters”, which took place at the Chamber Theater. In 1950, at the Maly Theater, together with Dudin, he created the play Voice of America. And in 1961, he staged the work Poachers.
Cinematic career
Actor Zharov began his cinematic career in 1915, playing a small episodic role as an oprichnik in the film Tsar Ivan the Terrible. Then came other episodic roles. For example, in the film “The One Who Gets Slaps” he plays the corporal, and in the film “Aelita” he successfully plays the role of a man.
The talented actor Zharov got his first main role in 1925 in the film "The Road to Happiness" directed by Sergei Kozlovsky. The young Red Army soldier Yegor Mironov fell in love with a pretty young girl. But his wife is waiting for him at home. Returning home, he learns that his wife died in childbirth, so he returns to his beloved.
But still widespread fame and glory came to actor Zharov only in the 1930s. At this time, for filming in various films, he was invited by the most famous directors. It was at this time that he played his best role - the bandit in the film "A ticket to life."
One of the main roles of the actor
The brightest and most significant work in the career of the actor Zharov was the film "Gemini" directed by Konstantin Yudin. In this comedy project, the man played the base manager Vadim Eropkin. The main character finds two twins. Since they have no parents, the woman decides to adopt them, but Eropkin, who was going to marry Lyuba Karaseva, opposes such an act of mercy.
Once the kids disappear, and their search leads to the fact that not only their mother is found, but it also turns out that it is Vadim Spiridonovich Eropkin who is their father. This film was released in film distribution in 1945.
Director's work in the cinema
It is known that in 1946, the famous actor Mikhail Zharov, whose films many people know, tried himself in the role of director in cinema. So, his first film was the film "Restless Farm", in which the viewer is transferred to wartime.
During the Great Patriotic War, the soldier Ogurtsov hurries to his new place of service. On the way, he meets a girl, and when he gets to the object of the elder Semibaba, played by the director Zharov himself, he is surprised at how fun and musically the days go here.
In 1973, Mikhail Zharov, together with directors such as Ivanov and Rapoport, directed the film Aniskin and Fantomas. The main male role, Aniskina, in this film is played by Zharov himself. His hero is trying to investigate an amazing and unusual box office robbery.
In 1977, the indefatigable Mikhail removes another film, which is a continuation of the previous one. This is the film “And Aniskin Again,” which was shot together with the director Ivanov. It tells how the investigation into the theft of exhibits from the Museum of Applied Arts, which is located in the village, is ongoing.
Sounding cartoons
In 1943, Mikhail Zharov, whose biography and personal life is difficult to describe in one article, is voiced by the animated film "The Tale of Tsar Saltan." In this animated picture, he gave his voice to one of the main characters - Tsar Saltan.
Personal life
The famous and popular actor in Soviet times, Mikhail Zharov was married four times. His first wife was a teacher of the Russian language, honored teacher Nadezhda Guzovskaya. In this marriage, the actor had a son, Eugene, who then went in the footsteps of his father. The famous and talented actor concluded his first marriage union in 1919, but he lasted only nine years.
In 1928, the famous actor Zharov married a second time. The new darling of Mikhail Ivanovich was Lyudmila Polyanskaya. She gave birth to an actor with two sons, but these children of Mikhail Zharov died in infancy. The couple lived together for four years, and then Mikhail Ivanovich left the family, leaving his wife and apartment, and even their favorite books.
The third wife of the hero of our article is Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, who was also an actress in cinema and theater. Their marriage lasted five years, and then broke up due to a new romantic hobby Lyudmila Vasilievna.
With the fourth wife, the famous actor had a difference of 30 years. Mikhail met the daughter of a cardiologist Maya Gelstein in Istra sanatorium. They created their family in 1949, and two years later, a happy couple had a daughter, Anna, who later became an actress. After that, another girl was born - Elizabeth.
Actor Zharov died in mid-December 1981 in the capital.