Actor Viktor Ilyichev is a famous Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Based on the statistics presented in the magazine called “The Soviet Screen”, the man is among the 20 most removed artists of the Soviet Union, having played more than 100 roles before his collapse. What is known about actor Viktor Ilyichev? About the biography and personal life of the artist? We will talk about this in detail in our article.
Biography of actor Viktor Ilyichev
Victor Grigorievich was born on February 5, 1946 in the city of Leningrad. From a young age, the future actor devoted a lot of time to creativity. So from 13 to 17 years Ilyichev played in the theater at the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers. A little later he began to attend a children's studio at the Lensovet Theater, and played many characteristic roles there.
After graduating from school, the future actor Viktor Ilyichev by that time had seriously decided to connect his fate with the theater, he decided to enter his native city at the state theater university. Here he was able to comprehend the basics of performing skills with the help of the famous teacher and theater director G. Tovstonogov.
At the age of 20, he performed one of the main roles in the well-known student production of “The Visual Song”, which was quite popular among the generation of the 60-70s of the XX century.
Achievements in the profession
After receiving the diploma of actor Viktor Ilyichev at the age of 23, he was accepted into the troupe of the Leningrad Theater, in which he worked for ten years. Since 1973, the man decided to go to an academic theater, on the stage of which he played for about two years.
After 30 years, Victor took a decisive step and changed the stage to film. But it is worth noting that the artist appeared on the big screen for the first time, while still a student, starring in the episodic, but vivid role of the applicant in the picture of G. Nathanson called "Elder Sister."
Then there were four other secondary roles, and already in his fifth film, he played the main role. It was a participation in the film "Personal Life of Kuzyaev Valentin", where actor Viktor Ilyichev appeared as a modest guy who tries to take part in all matters, putting his shyness into the background.
Artist Role
After some time, the actor formed his role. As a rule, he played the role of charming, rustic and modest men. For the most part, he played his contemporaries - typical hard workers, students, or ordinary children.
His characters possessed different qualities: kindness, intelligence, meanness, cowardice - but always his play evoked a smile from the viewer. As many theater and film critics believed, Viktor Grigorievich was a brilliant supporting artist, whose appearance on the screen always caused a smile and a huge amount of positive emotions among viewers.
Among the most striking paintings of the artist I would like to note: the role of Osadchy in the military-heroic work “Chronicle of a Dive Bomber”, Long in the heroic film “Look Into Both”, Fabio in the musical-costumed film “Dog in the Hay”, Fedka-Bull in an adventure film "The Green Van", Makara in the rogue work "Genius", as well as Savchuk in the comedy "The Cat in the Bag."
Actor Viktor Ilyichev: personal life
It is known that Viktor Grigorievich was married once. His wife was a famous ballerina named Svetlana Oiseva, who for 20 years was dancing on the stage of the Opera and Ballet Theater in the city of Leningrad.
It is also known that the actor has a son named Mikhail - born in 1970. He, like his father, graduated from the theater university of his native city. In 1994, he played a cameo role in the film "Russian Account".
Since the mid-90s, the guy moved with his parents abroad. At the moment he is in the United States of America, where over the years of residence he received two economic education.
Living Abroad
In the mid-90s, when a large-scale roll of the so-called cooperative cinema took place, work for Russian actors for several years was not at all. Various artists turned out to be without work, including such popular actors at that time as Viktor Ilyichev. In his filmography, more than 50 works, and this despite the fact that the man stopped playing in Soviet cinema when he was not yet fifty years old.
It was at that moment that a proposal came from abroad to the artist’s wife - the ballerina Svetlana, who studied with M. Baryshnikov in her youth. Old friends offered a place in the American ballet school. The woman agreed to such a position and emigrated to the United States with her husband and son.
The death of the actor
Viktor Grigoryevich died at the 65th year of life. At this time, he and his family lived in Florida (United States of America), where he moved in the mid-90s after his wife Svetlana.
While abroad, the man played in only 3 scenes: “Without breaking the law”, “Inhibited reflex” and “Marriage at 24 o’clock”. The main thing for the artist was the housework.
A man died on October 8, 2010 in the city of Boca Raton. The cause of the death of actor Viktor Ilyichev was a serious long illness. A few months before his death, the medical staff of the artist was diagnosed with cancer, which was already in an advanced stage. Doctors began to treat Victor, but everything turned out to be futile.
After some time, at the Florida forum, fans of a talented actor wrote that Viktor Grigorievich, like no other, knew how to feel beauty and always admired it. After the death of the artist, compatriots said that no one could replace Ilyichev in Russian cinema.