Shapovalov Vitaly is a well-known and talented film and theater actor. He worked at the Taganka Theater, where he played more than 10 roles. Also, Vitaly starred in about 50 films, performing diverse roles. His personal life is still unknown to the audience. But his work in cinema received a large number of awards and prizes, the actor won the love and recognition of the audience.
Childhood
Shapovalov Vitaliy was born on May 1, 1939 in the Ukrainian village of Yurkovka, Stavishchensky district. The future actor does not remember his father, since at the very beginning of the war he died. Mother Oksana, as the actor himself recalled, was a real Ukrainian woman who not only easily drove a tractor, but also had a strong, strong-willed character. She was not even afraid, while in occupation, to slap the German, who tried to pester her.
Education
It is known that the future actor Shapovalov studied well at school, but was not always disciplined. From some photos of Vitaly Shapovalov, you can understand that he was involved in sports. Also in childhood, the future actor loved to participate in school activities. For example, he danced beautifully and was fond of music.
Vitaliy Shapovalov did not even think about choosing an actor's profession in the future. According to the recollections of the actor himself, he was never in the theater in his childhood, and did not even have an idea that such a thing exists. Therefore, while studying at school, when he began to think about which area to build his career in the future, he chose between music and football.
Vitaliy Shapovalov sang especially well, and he also played the guitar excellently. Therefore, after graduation, he went to enter the music school of the city of Khabarovsk. He chose a pipe class. Only after the army did the future actor enter the Moscow Theater School named after Boris Schukin. His Vitaly successfully graduated in 1968. By the way, it was in the school that Shapovalov was given the nickname Chapin, which was then transferred behind the scenes to the circle of friends.
Theatrical career
In 1968, Vitaly Shapovalov, an actor whose biography is eventful, enters the troupe of the Taganka Theater. When the director changed in this theater and Yuri Lyubimov was expelled from the Soviet Union, then Vitaly Vladimirovich, together with Leonid Filatov and Veniamin Smekhov, transferred to work in the capital's Sovremennik Theater. Since 1985, he has played on this scene in two performances: “And in the morning they woke up ...” and “Twin”.
In 1987, actor Vitaly Shapovalov again returned to the Taganka Theater. He worked there for a long time - only after 22 years, the actor quit due to his health. This happened due to the fact that Vitaly Vladimirovich was injured: he had a hip fracture. In the future, the trauma and complications that she caused will greatly affect the life and fate of the famous actor ...
At the Taganka Theater, he played diverse roles in ten performances. So, in the play “The Dawns Here Are Quiet ...” he played the role of foreman Vaskov, and in the theatrical production of “Pugachev” he was Emelyan himself. In the famous play “The Master and Margarita” Vitaly Vladimirovich appeared in the role of Pontius Pilate, and in the play “Boris Godunov” he plays the main character.
Career in cinema
Actor Vitaly Shapovalov, whose personal life is closed to the public, began his creative career in 1969, when he starred in the short film "Mr. Twister." In the same year, he played a small episodic role in the film "Echo of Distant Snow" directed by Leonid Golovnya. A little later, he starred in the role of driver in the film "The Road Home".
In 1970, Vitaliy Vladimirovich took part in the film almanac "In the Lazor Steppe" directed by Yu. Lugin. Here he successfully played the role of Maxim. In 1972, the famous and talented actor Shapovalov starred in two films at once. So, in the film "Summer Dreams" directed by Vitaly Koltsov, he plays the main male role - Stepan Kozanets. Together with other men of his Cossack farm, unexpectedly for the female half of the village, he begins to go to the club for a rehearsal of the play. And this is justified by the fact that a young and pretty leader of this club arrived.
In the historical film "Sveaborg" directed by Sergei Kolosov, actor Shapovalov plays a small role as a soldier. Many children remember the unclean power from the tale "Ivan da Marya" directed by Boris Ritsarev. The plot of the film takes small spectators to the kingdom of King Eustigneus the Thirteenth, who was constantly unlucky. But then he made friends with an ordinary Russian soldier Ivan. The werewolf, played by actor Shapoval, really liked the children.
In 1981, Vitaliy Vladimirovich accepted the offer from the director Vadim Derbenev to star in the film “Woman in White”. In this two-part film, a talented actor plays Count Fosco. In the detective film "Loop" directed by Arkady Adamov, the famous actor got the role of a local in Tukhums.
A corpse was found in one of the pits of an abandoned construction site - a young girl was killed. Three well-known investigators take up this matter. They will have to establish the cause of death and, if it is not suicide, then find the culprit. Captain Jan Yanovich, who is played by the famous actor Shapovalov, also helps them in this investigation.
In 2004, Vitaliy Vladimirovich played the role of Bobrov in the film “Gemini”, directed by Zinovy Roizman. A certain criminal Fatima successfully commits his crimes. She always manages to hide. Investigator of this case is assigned to investigator Peter Erozhin.
The film "Dead Souls"
In 1984, actor Vitaliy Vladimirovich Shapovalov agreed to shoot in the film "Dead Souls" directed by Mikhail Schweitzer. The main character travels to small provincial cities, offering landowners to sell dead souls. One of these landowners is Nozdrev, played by actor Vitaly Shapovalov.
The film "The Humble Cemetery"
In the dramatic film "The Humble Cemetery" directed by Alexander Itygilov, Vitaliy Vladimirovich also played one of the main roles. This film was released in 1989. No one ever thought that people also work in the cemetery and that their laws reign among them. This film tells about the life of the workers of the best and most prestigious cemeteries in the city.
But this “humble” cemetery actually turns out to be not so humble either. Severe and cruel manners reign in this territory. And the people who connect their fate with him tragically live their lives. In this film, Shapovalov plays one of the cemetery workers. He performed his hero Alexander Raevsky with special trepidation and very sincerely.
TV Shooting
Since 2002, the famous actor Shapovalov starred in television series. These are such serial films as Kamenskaya, Turetsky March and Secrets of Palace Coups. In 2002, the famous actor plays the role of Kamenskaya's father. First, in the second episode of the series that became popular, and then in the third part. In the film "Turkish March" he successfully and talented plays the role of Marshal Kiselev.
In 2008, in the eighth episode of the multi-part film “Secrets of the Palace Revolutions”, Vitaly Vladimirovich plays General Leontiev. Filming in this film was the last for the talented actor Shapovalov.
Voice acting cartoons
In 1969, the actor Vitaliy Vladimirovich Shapovalov first voiced the animated film "Mystery Buff". After that, in 1975, followed by the scoring of another animated film called "What the hell do you want?". Five years later, he voiced the author in the animated film "Bear's Skin Is For Sale." In 1985, Vitaliy Vladimirovich voiced the cartoon "Perfil and Thomas."
Personal life
The actor Shapovalov always hid his personal life from the public and the press. Therefore, there is no information about his family. It is only known that he was divorced and his wife's name was Irina Borisovna. But in this article there is a photo of Vitaly Shapovalov, an actor whom the whole country knows and loves.
As already mentioned, in 2009, the actor broke his hip neck, because of this, he could not work for some time. But soon his condition improved, and the actor began to act in films again, and also returned to the theater. But already in the fall of 2017, Vitaliy Vladimirovich unexpectedly went to the hospital due to complications that occurred after his surgery on the joint. While Vitaly Vladimirovich Shapovalov was in intensive care, in the metropolitan theater on Taganka, where he worked for many years, they began to collect money for his treatment, which was very expensive. Indeed, in the theater everyone was like one family. The artist Vitaly Shapovalov died on November 14, 2017. The money that his friends and colleagues raised was never sent for treatment.