Soviet actor who earned the nickname "block man." His interviews are interesting and informative. It's about Viktor Fedorovich Smirnov. What is known about the life and work of the artist?
The birth of a wonderful artist
The future actor of theater and cinema Smirnov Viktor Fedorovich was born on August 4, 1945 in the town of Klin (Moscow region). After graduating from school, he learned the craft of glassblower and worked for some time, consolidating the profession.
He devoted his free time to amateur performances. The scene completely swallowed him, and he makes a radical decision - to change his profession. He enters the Gorky Theater School in Nizhny Novgorod, successfully graduated from the institution in 1972.
In the theatre
At the end of the educational institution, the biography of actor Victor Smirnov begins, which immediately takes into its ranks the Penza Regional Drama Theater. A.V. Lunacharsky. Smirnov has been performing on his stage for ten years. In his acting “piggy bank”, participation in such outstanding productions as “Quiet Flows the Don”, “A Man from the Side”, “Othello”, “A Date in the Suburbs”.
Later, he moved to St. Petersburg to be among the troupe of the Alexandrinsky Theater. On the new stage, Viktor Smirnov was given the first role to play Emelyan Pugachev in the work "Captain's Daughter." It was a triumphant debut, after which he fell in love with the St. Petersburg audience and became a significant theater actor.
Working on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, he played in such powerful productions as The Power of Darkness, Hamlet, The Undergrowth, Uncle's Dream, Three Sisters, Vassa Zheleznova, and The Examiner.
His colleague in the theater, Galina Karelina (people's actress of the RSFSR), says that Viktor Smirnov influenced others, colleagues, and indeed all of Russia. Everyone was bribed by his wide soul. Colleagues of actors and directors nicknamed him "block man." Not only because he was tall enough and powerful physique, but rather, for his charisma.
To the cinema
A wide range of viewers recognizes Smirny from the gangster Petersburg-3 series, popular in the early 2000s, where he plays Dmitry Burtsev, director of TKK LTD. Also, everyone knows Smirnov by the role of the chief of the Odessa menace in “Liquidation”. But this is far from his first trials in the domestic film industry.
In the biography of actor Victor Smirnov, the first appearance on the screens occurred in 1967. It was a Soviet color film directed by Alexander Ivanov and Eugene Schiffers - “The First Russians”. The film tells about the life and struggle of the first Communards of Altai, which are destroyed by the Cossacks. After several years, Viktor Fedorovich did not act in films at all. And now, in 1975, he fell on the set of "The Missing Expedition." Here he plays a small role. By the way, Viktor Smirnov rarely gave leading roles, although he even played episodic roles with full dedication.
The filmography of Victor Smirnov is replenished in 1980 with the film “A sharp turn”, directed by Sergei Vysotsky. Again, the role is not the main one, which, unfortunately, for Viktor Fedorovich is already becoming a regularity. Masterfully, he plays a secondary role in the science-fiction feature film Mirror for the Hero. In this picture-parable, the action takes place in a small village in the Donbass. Smirnov plays the director of the Tyukin mine. The plot of the film is somewhat similar to the American melodrama "Groundhog Day" with Bill Murray in the title role. Everyone who knew Smirnov noted his great sense of humor. And in "Mirror ..." the role of Tyukin is somewhat comical. Each time in a new scene, when he meets a hero, he had to behave in exactly the same way as in the first.
In every minor character, Viktor Fedorovich knew how to shine, leaving critics no chance to miss him. After watching the film “Mirror for the Hero”, the mine director smiling and devoted to his work and the party’s task is forever remembered.
Victor Fedorovich during his career in cinema starred in 70 films, where even episodic, secondary roles in his performance are unique.
Personal life
According to the biography of actor Victor Smirnov, for the first time he married Lidia Kolesnikova, deputy chief editor of Pioneer Truth. They had a joint son, Ilya. After a while, the couple broke up. But the actor’s personal life did not end there.
Three daughters (Catherine, Elizabeth, Faith) gave him a second wife - Tamara Mikhailovna. Little is known about the relationship of the actor with the children.
Death
August 12, 2017 can be called the final point in the biography of the artist. Heart stopped beating with actor Victor Smirnov. The cause of death is a serious illness with which he struggled in recent years. At the same time, he continued to attend rehearsals and even played on stage. Until the last, he did not leave his beloved profession.
Therefore, it is symbolic that the farewell to the actor was spent in his native theater, in which he worked for forty years. His body rests at the Serafimovsky cemetery, which is located in St. Petersburg.
The biography of actor Victor Smirnov is full of many strong roles. He was remembered as a serious and reasonable person, not without a sense of humor and charisma.