The idols of millions of Soviet viewers still delight us with their talent thanks to the broadcasts of old films, which gradually disappear no. The list of famous Soviet actors is quite large; in this article, brief biographies of only four popular artists are presented. Each of which left a noticeable mark in domestic cinema.
Anatoly Dmitrievich Papanov
The actor was born on October 31, 1922 in the small town of Vyazma, Smolensk province, where a monument is now erected to him. Anatoly Dmitrievich's father was the commander of the Red Army, in his spare time he participated in the theatrical performances of the military garrison. When the productions required children, they were played by Anatoly or his sister. In 1930, the family moved to Moscow.
Papanov studied poorly, so he went to work early. He found a foundry worker in the repair shops of the plant. At the same time, he began to study in the theater studio at the Kauchuk factory, soon becoming the main star of an amateur troupe.
At the age of 15 he made his film debut, playing a very small role in the film "Lenin in October" (1937), which was not even indicated in the credits. Before the war he managed to appear in four more films. He fought from the first days of the war. In 1942, after a severe wound, Anatoly Papanov was commissioned.
Actor career
After graduating from GITIS, he worked in the Klaipeda Russian Drama Theater, and since 1948, in the Moscow Satire Theater. In his youth, the actor Anatoly Papanov played only secondary and episodic roles in theatrical productions. Only in 1954 he was entrusted with the first significant role. When it was urgent to replace a sick artist.
The first serious work in the movie was the role of General Serpilin in the military drama "Alive and Dead" (1964), after which he began to act in films. Papanov, one of the few famous Soviet actors who were given equally convincing dramatic and comedic roles. Although he liked the audience thanks to his roles in the famous comedies Leonid Gaidai's The Diamond Arm and Eldar Ryazanov's Watch Out for the Car. The voice of Papanov was spoken by the Wolf from the popular Soviet cartoon "Well, wait a minute!". The last work of the actor was the role in the film "Cold summer of the fifty-third ...".
Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky
One of the most famous Soviet actors of the post-war generation has become a real sex symbol of the country. Yankovsky was born on February 23, 1944 in the small Kazakh town of Karsakpay, in the family of a former guard officer. Soon they moved to Saratov. Oleg was nine years old when his father died from wounds received during the First World War. The family lived hard, three children were supported by one mother.
At the age of 14, Oleg was taken to his older brother Rostislav, who worked at the Minsk Drama Theater. Here Jankowski made his stage debut, replacing the actress-travesty, who played the boy Edik in the “Drummer” by A. D. Salynsky. After graduation, he entered the Saratov Theater School. As it turned out a few months after the start of studies, they accepted him instead of his middle brother Nikolai, who passed a creative contest. They just got mixed up. He was taken to the local theater only thanks to the insistence of his wife - actress Lyudmila Zorina. And for a long time, the actor Oleg Yankovsky was known in the city as the husband of the star of the Saratov Theater.
Both a true Aryan and a good friend
He got into the cinema almost by accident, in 1968 in Lviv, where the Saratov theater was on tour, he was noticed by members of the film crew of the film “Shield and Sword”. Which could not find an artist for the role of Heinrich Schwarzkopf. Then they drew attention to a young man with a "typically Aryan appearance." In the same year, the actor played his second famous role - the Red Army soldier Andrei Nekrasov in the revolutionary drama "Two Comrades Served." After these paintings, he became a famous and sought-after actor in the cinema and theater, where he began to be given serious roles.
In 1973, director Mark Zakharov invited Yankovsky to the famous Lenkom, where his first work was the role of Goryaev in the production play Autograd XXI. Oleg Yankovsky worked in this theater almost until his death, playing the main roles in many classical and modern performances. At Zakharov, he starred in the films “Ordinary Miracle” (1976) and “The Same Munchausen” (1979).
The famous Soviet actor Yankovsky played in about a hundred films, including Mirror, Doctor Zhivago, Regicide, and We, the Undersigned. The last picture was the film of Pavel Lungin "Tsar" (2008), where he played Metropolitan Philip.
Nikolai Grinkorevich Grinko
Few people already remember this famous Soviet actor who played in more than 130 films. Nikolai G. Grinko was born on May 20, 1920 in Ukraine in the city of Kherson, where his childhood passed. Parents often took him to work in the theater, where dad worked as an actor, and his mother was an assistant director. From an early age he dreamed of becoming an actor. The first time he went on stage at the age of five. After graduation, he entered the theater institute, but did not pass the competition. Then the war began, on the fronts of which he spent four years.
After demobilization, he worked as an assistant director, then an actor in various Ukrainian theaters. In 1949 he graduated from the theater-studio at the Zaporizhzhya Theater. Since 1955, the artistic director and artist of the Kiev symphonic and jazz pop orchestra "Dnipro". During this period, Grinko performed a lot with parody and comedy numbers.
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Since 1951, the actor Nikolai Grinko began acting in films. In 1961, he received his first major role in the movie - the American driver in "The World Enters." For this work he was awarded a prize - the Studebaker car, however, the actor was not given to receive it. The acting talent Grinko was greatly appreciated by the famous director Andrei Tarkovsky, in whom he starred in the films "Ivanovo Childhood", "Passion for Andrei" and "Stalker".
However, this famous Soviet actor was most remembered by the Soviet spectator for the role of Pope Carlo from the movie "The Adventures of Pinocchio" (1976) and Professor Gromov from "The Adventures of Electronics" (1979). The tall, lean artist of many of his heroes endowed with kindness, warmth and wisdom, a great positive charm.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Eremenko Jr.
Born on February 14, 1949 in the Belarusian city of Vitebsk, in an acting family. After graduating from high school, on the second attempt he entered VGIK. Moreover, he never hid the fact that he was in a prestigious institute thanks to his father, People's Artist of the USSR Nikolai Eremenko. From 1971 to 1976 he worked in the Theater Studio of the Cinema Actor, then focused on the cinema.
The debut on the big screen took place in 1969 in Gerasimov’s painting “By the Lake”. This was followed by filming in popular Soviet films, including "Red and Black" (1976), "Walking through the agony" (1977) and "Tavern on Pyatnitskaya". In 1980, he was recognized as the country's best actor for the role of senior mechanic Sergei Sergeyevich in the first Soviet action movie "Pirates of the XX Century." After this film, Eremenko became not just a famous Soviet actor, but a superstar of domestic cinema.
In subsequent years, he starred a lot, among the best works of films - "In Search of Captain Grant", "At the Beginning of Glorious Deeds" and "Sniper". The last role of the actor was the father of Cosmos in the cult television series "Brigade", which was released a year after the death of Nikolai Eremenko.