Konstantin Sorokin is a well-known film and theater actor who played mostly comedic roles. In the theater, he played more than 150 roles, and in the cinema he starred in more than 70 films. Each time his heroes opened in a new way to the audience, but they always looked at the heroes of Konstantin Nikolaevich with surprise and interest. In his personal life, the actor was unlucky, although women liked him and could easily seduce them.
Childhood
Sorokin Konstantin Nikolaevich was born on the third of September 1908. His parents had nothing to do with the world of cinema. So, the father of the future actor, Nikolai Nikanorovich, worked as a simple caster, and my mother, Sofya Mikhailovna, was engaged in the house and children. But in 1918 he became an orphan and quickly moved from Pskov to his aunt.
Hobby for reading
Every day in childhood, the future actor had to deceive his aunt, who sheltered him at home, but on the condition that he could live, but he should not hope for food. Therefore, the boy had to not only study, but also work at the factory. But he left early, telling his aunt that he was going to the factory, and he spent two hours every day reading in the library.
All his life, Konstantin Sorokin read a lot and loved to do it. The actor had an excellent memory, so he could easily quote any texts, even philosophical or historical.
Education
It is known that Konstantin Sorokin graduated from the factory school at the factory "Red Shipbuilder" of the city of Leningrad. After that, he entered the private theater studio of Nikolai Khodotov, and then successfully graduated from it in 1930.
Theatrical career
Immediately after graduating from the theater studio, Konstantin Sorokin, whose actor the whole country knows and loves, began to serve in theaters of different cities: Arkhangelsk, Pskov and others. This went on for three years. During this time, he was able to play about 150 roles. Since 1933, Konstantin Nikolaevich became an actor in the music hall and miniature theater of the city of Leningrad. In 1942, he transferred to the theater studio of the film actor.
Cinematic career
In 1936, a cinematic biography of Konstantin Sorokin began. In the film "Dubrovsky" directed by Alexander Ivanovsky, he played Paramoshka. After that, every year he starred in several films, but most often these roles were small and episodic. That is why he is considered the master of the episode, since the actor Sorokin, even in his small roles, was magnificent and talented: it was impossible not to notice him.
That's why most often the actor Konstantin Sorokin, whose biography is eventful, played in the movies either priests, or small roles of athletes, or sentries. And if in the movie he was still simple and funny, then in life everyone knew him as a wise man, a philosopher.
Many directors offered the talented actor only roles in comedy films. In 1942, in the film "Kotovsky" directed by Alexander Faintsimmer, artist Sorokin Konstantin played a young orderly who did not want to part with his beautiful forelock. And when the nurse cuts off a block of forelock, then he is just ready to tear it to pieces. He calls his comrades who shaved their heads with boobies, but only until Kotovsky himself hears this and shows his head to him. And then he, too, has his hair cut.
In 1950, the talented and gifted actor Sorokin starred in the film "Generous Summer" directed by Boris Barnet. After the war, the soldier Petr Sereda returns home, where, having met labor drummer Oksana Podpruzhenko, he immediately falls in love. Soon, Peter became an accountant on this collective farm, and his friend Nazar became chairman. But suddenly Peter begins to be jealous of Oksana for his friend. In this film, the charming actor Sorokin played the head of the collective farm, Philip Fedorovich Teslyuk.
Teslyuk has a lot to do, but an interesting scene is where he bought a manufacturing bull. Before the actor, the bull was held on sticks by experts, and the actor himself quickly and without sticks approached the animal, although experts tried to stop him. The director recalled that the actor Sorokin never gave advice on how to shoot him, but every shot with him made Boris Vasilievich laugh.
In 1956, the talented actor Sorokin starred in the film "Different Fates" directed by Leonid Lukov. Yesterday's schoolchildren Tanya, Styopa, Fedya and Sonya enter adulthood, but they do it in different ways. Tanya chooses the beautiful Fedya, and then cheats on him with the famous composer. And Sonya sacrifices everything in her life, recovering for Stepa, whom Tanya rejected. In this film, Konstantin Nikolaevich plays the head of the personnel department Pyotr Petrovich. The hero of the actor Sorokin is friends with the director of a large plant, which allows him to rule over people.
In 1965, Konstantin Sorokin starred in the famous film "Cooking" directed by Edmond Keosayan. The protagonist confesses to the lively girl Peacock in her love, not choosing a place and time. He gets a ladle on the head from the girl, and soon everyone knew about this story on the farm. Therefore, the young Cossack woman was forced to leave her home and go to the field, where she got a job as a cook. But soon the lover, Stepan Kazanets, also arrives there.
Unusually and talented actor Sorokin played his role as the grandfather of Plum. An unusual lyrical and comic figure was obtained by the actor. He likes to drink, lie, and also will not miss a single girl. Often he tells his fellow villagers stories that are hard to not believe. But many of them turn out to be invented by his grandfather Plum. It’s Grandfather Plum who starts all the gossip in the village. But in the film's finale, his gossip and stories are no longer interesting to anyone.
The role of actor Sorokin in the film “Guardian” by directors Albert Mortchyan and Edgar Khodzhikyan turned out to be fun. This film was released in 1970. The main character Misha Koroyedov does not want to do anything, but at the same time he wants to get everything out of life. Once he meets a pretty waitress Lyuba, who offers him to become the guardian of an elderly woman who is allegedly constantly sick and is about to die. The most interesting thing is that Antonina Ivanovna does not have a relative, and therefore she wants to leave her guardian all her household, as well as her house on the seashore.
Michael begins to look after his grandmother, but it turns out that she is interested in sports, makes him constantly work, and she is also an honorable walrus of the city. In this film, the talented actor Konstantin Sorokin played the moonshiner Mitri Prokopych Samorodov. After exposing the old woman, Michael and his friend turn to him. They are surprised that, having moved to a one-room apartment, the moonshiner took with him only the moonshine still.
Work at Mosfilm
In 1941, Konstantin Sorokin, films with which the audience knows and loves, was enrolled in the staff of the Mosfilm film studio. It is known that a talented actor, despite the fact that there is very little information about him, starred in 75 films.
"Air cab"
In 1943, the talented actor Sorokin starred in the film "The Air Carter", directed by Herbert Rappaport. At the beginning of the war, pilot Baranov falls in love with Natasha Kulikova, who is just starting her career as an opera singer. Ivan Baranov is not young, but he nevertheless met her when he was forced to land a plane. But the girl’s mother is against this marriage, since she believes that the best husband for her daughter will be Svetlovidov, a famous singer. But the opinion of mom is not interesting for young and in love people.
But when the war begins, the pilot Baranov asks to be transferred to fighter jets, but his leadership refuses. When he carries ammunition, falls behind the Germans, then, having lost his orientation due to thick fog, he cannot fly out, and only the voice of his beloved woman helps him in this situation. In this film, actor Sorokin plays the role of the theater administrator of Transdanubia. He is impudent and not always predictable.
Zadunaysky out of all the actors singles out the tenor Ananiya Palych, whom he takes care of and tries to help in his love for the beginning singer. But this tenor himself already has a large crowd of fans. To save his ward from all annoying girls, he tries to dress like an opera singer, so that they constantly confuse them.
The most significant role of the actor
In the mid-sixties, when the career of a famous and talented actor was slowly approaching completion, Konstantin Sorokin still hoped that something would change in his cinematic life and he would stop playing only comedic characters. That is why in 1964 he agreed with pleasure to the proposal of the director Samson Samsonov to star in the film “Three Sisters”.
This time, actor Sorokin got the role of a strange cynic Chebutykin, who was tenderly attached to his three sisters. During the filming, the talented actor was happy. Subsequently, it was this role that Konstantin Nikolaevich considered the most significant in his life. No one else offered him such roles.
Last role
In 1975, the famous actor Sorokin played his last role in the film "Ivan and Colombina" directed by Ivan Chechunov. The main character, Ivan Cheprasov, returns from the army and immediately comes to work in a motorcade. But the boss, seeing that the guy is young, decides to give him an old and wrecked car that no one wants to repair. The drivers call this car “Columbine” among themselves.
It was this very “columbine” that became a test for the young driver, where all the features of his character showed up. In this film, Konstantin Nikolaevich got the role of Yegorych.
Personal life
It is known that Konstantin Sorokin, whose personal life is always interesting to the audience, was able to charm women beautifully, but at the same time he was always faithful and decent to them. It was believed that the talented actor was very courteous towards the ladies, and even there was an opinion that he had increased attention to them.
Relationships in marriage he did not work out. But he loved his daughter madly. And despite the fact that he was lonely, he was in no hurry to enter into a new marriage.
The actor died in mid-May 1981 in Moscow. The cause of his death was myocardial infarction. The talented and famous actor Konstantin Sorokin is also buried in Moscow.