Eduard Alexandrovich Bredun is a famous Soviet film actor. He had a bright career, which broke off early enough. The audience remembered him by his roles in the films The Case of the Motley, Ivan Vasilievich Changes the Profession, and Twelve Chairs. In this article, you will learn about his biography and creative career.
Childhood and youth
Eduard Alexandrovich Bredun was born in 1934. He was born on the territory of the Stalin Region in the Ukrainian SSR, which is now called Donetsk.
His father, Alexander Evdokimovich, was a military man, his mother's name was Tamara Semenovna (surname in her name is Fedorovskaya).
When the Great Patriotic War began, little Edward and his mother went to evacuate. They stayed in Kazakhstan. In 1942 they settled in Semipalatinsk, where his father, who taught topography at a military school, also arrived soon.
After the war, the actorâs childhood passed in Balti on the territory of Moldova. It was there that Eduard Alexandrovich Bredun joined the drama club, which worked at the city House of Pioneers. Then he lived in Chisinau.
At the same time, he initially decided to follow in his father's footsteps, enrolling in the Suvorov Military School in Tambov.
Creative career
After school, Eduard Alexandrovich Bredun realized that his calling was to be an artist. He enters VGIK. The head of the creative workshop of the hero of our article was the People's Artist of the USSR Julius Yakovlevich Raizman.
Since 1957, Edward receives a graduate diploma, and from the next year begins to serve in the Theater Studio of the film actor.
His debut on the big screen took place in 1955 in the little-known film "Green Dol" in a cameo role. Then in the melodrama of Mikhail Kalatozov âFirst Echelonâ he plays Genka Monetkin, in the drama of Leonid Lukov âDifferent Fatesâ - the drinking companion Stepan Ogurtsov, and in the adventure military film Mikhail Vinyarsky âThe coordinates are unknownâ - a character named Bragin.
Popularity for the actor comes in 1958. In the detective drama by Nikolai Dostal âThe Case of the Motleyâ, Bredun gets the role of Mitya Neverov. This is a story about Soviet intelligence lieutenant Sergei Korshunov, who is returning to Moscow after serving in Germany. He becomes a criminal investigator, trying to investigate a series of convoluted crimes.
After this picture, the photos of Eduard Alexandrovich Bredun began to appear regularly in Soviet film magazines. Among his other outstanding works, it is necessary to note the role of Andrei Yarchuk in the comedy by Grigory Lipschitz âThe Artist from Kokhanovkaâ, Lukash Shirokov in the drama by Vasily Pronin âCossacksâ, Pasha Emilyevich in the film âTwelve Chairsâ by Leonid Gaidai, and speculator radio pieces in Vasily Gaidaiâs science fiction comedy âIvan changing profession. "
It is noteworthy that Bredun played in the production of the novel by Ilf and Petrov âThe Twelve Chairsâ and with Mark Zakharov, which was released five years later. This time he appeared on the screen in the image of a relative of Alchen.
A family
The personal life of Eduard Alexandrovich Bredun at first was successful. On the set of the picture "First Echelon", he met actress Isolda Izvitskaya, who was two years older than him. They soon got married.
In the mid-1960s, the hero of our article was in the shadow of the star wife, whom came to popularity after the role of Maryutka Basova in the heroic-revolutionary drama of Gregory Chukhrai âForty-firstâ. The people around turned to Edward exclusively as to Izvitskayaâs husband. It made him angry. The actor began to drink.
Together with her husband, Isolde became addicted to alcohol. In January 1971, Bredun went to their mutual friend.
The actress washed down even more, left alone. On March 1, her body was discovered in an apartment. It turned out that she had been lying dead for a week. The body was undermined by chronic alcoholism and prolonged starvation.
At the end of life
After this incident, the rascal began to drink even more. His creative career did not work out. In the late 1970s, he appeared in small roles in the comedy of Leonid Gaidai "Incognito from St. Petersburg", the melodrama of Vladimir Nazarov "Dove". The last time he appeared on the screen in 1980 in the film "Life Line".
In July 1984, the actor died. The cause of death of Eduard Alexandrovich Bredun has never been officially reported. All friends and acquaintances were sure that he finally undermined his health by abusing alcohol. He was 49 years old. The hero of our article was buried at the Vostryakovsky cemetery.