Yuri Belov is a wonderful Soviet actor. Thanks to the incredible charm and unique talent, he was remembered by the audience for many years. Films with his participation are watched in one breath. This article will discuss the creative biography and life path of the artist.
Childhood and students
Yuri Belov was born in 1930, July 31, in the city of Rzhev, Tver region. The boy’s dad was a military man, so Yuri spent his childhood in the Kuril Islands. The last place of service of Father Belov was the Far East.
The future actor in 1955 graduated from VGIK, the workshop of O. Pyzheva and B. Bibikov, and entered the service in the Theater Studio of the film actor. He studied with Nadezhda Rumyantseva. According to the recollections of the actress, Yuri Belov is a man of exceptional decency and kindness. He was insanely funny and very charming man.
Successful start
A year after graduation, the actor was invited to take part in the famous Eldar Ryazanov's film "Carnival Night" for the role of the handsome guy Grisha. This work instantly made the artist popular. Over the next seven years, the filmography of Yuri Belov only gained momentum. He starred in the films “Girl without an Address” (Solovyov Mitya), “Aleshkina Love” (Arkady), “Come Tomorrow” (Volodya), “The Undefeated” (Grachkin Tolya), “Queen of the Gas Station” (Slavka). All these paintings have become classics of Soviet cinema. And Yuri is one of the most famous artists of Russian cinema. The characters depicted by the actor on the screen were far from always positive, but Yuri’s inner light, his unique charm transformed them. Films with the participation of Belov still cheer up, fill the soul with warm and sincere feelings.
Theatrical activity
In the Theater of Film Actors, Yuri Belov was entrusted with the role of Miloslavsky in the production of "Ivan Vasilievich" based on the work of M. Bulgakov. The actor was incredibly happy. This was the highest achievement of the artist on the stage. He brilliantly coped with the role. According to eyewitnesses, the widow of the writer, Bulgakova Elena Sergeyevna, visited the play. She said that Belov portrayed Miloslavsky exactly as the author intended.
Playing on stage, the actor loved to improvise. He liked to bring fresh colors into the palette of the old, repeatedly played performance. Yuri Belov suddenly could change the whole familiar mise-en-scene of the production. Not all colleagues in the workshop were ready to support him. Soon rumors spread about Belov as an uncomfortable and unpredictable partner. In creative terms, the artist gradually went into the shadows. Possessing a sharp paradoxical mind, undoubted talent and rare charm, he invariably defended his point of view on any occasion. For this he was not loved. Soon, Yuri Belov had to leave the Film Actor Theater.
Career turning point
Since the mid-60s, Yuri was no longer invited to leading roles. Journalist Martynov Vladimir told the story that Belov told him. She has no official evidence. According to the artist, when he starred in the film "Give a mournful book," he was invited to a banquet. In a friendly conversation, Yuri Belov suggested that Nikita Khrushchev would soon be removed from the post of Secretary General. Someone from the interlocutors reported to the artist. Soon, people in white coats arrived for the actor and took him to an insane asylum. He spent several months there. The time spent in the hospital had a great effect on Yuri. Since then, in the world of cinema, he began to enjoy the reputation of an unreliable person with an unstable psyche. The incident completely changed his life.
Episodic roles
After forced treatment in the hospital, Yuri Belov began to appear in films only in small roles. For example, he played grandfather in the film "About Little Red Riding Hood." Leonid Filatov speaks of the actor as a person who, using his limitless charm, could make a full-fledged and memorable work out of an unremarkable role. In the film "Come Tomorrow" Belov is an actor who plays in the episode. However, in this tape, Yuri was remembered by the audience along with the main characters. The small role of a student-Hochmach, who, together with a friend, takes a test for a young girl as a joke, has become one of the most striking and funny in the film.
Filmography
Yuri Belov for his acting life managed to star in 39 films. Among them: “Mother and Son”, “A Man Was Born”, “Thirst”, “May Stars”, “Leon Garros is Looking for a Friend”, “Aleshkina Love”, “Unresponsive”, “A Man from Nowhere”, “A Horse Riding”, “ Hussar ballad "," Lyubushka "," Our mutual friend "," Come to me, Mukhtar "," Sleeping Lion ". In 1972, in the film “Train Stop - Two Minutes,” the actor played a leading role for the last time. According to the director’s memoirs, the image of the protagonist was ideally suited to Belov. The internal state of the undeservedly forgotten actor completely and completely coincided with the inner world of his character - the eccentric peasant Vasily, who has the gift of a real wizard.
After this, Yuri Belov’s career was almost over. He starred in only nine films: “Big Break”, “Nylon 100%”, “100 grams for courage”, “Kysh and Dvuportfelya”, “About Little Red Riding Hood”, “Everyday Criminal Investigation”, “The Woman Who Sings”, "Diplomats involuntarily." In the 80s, the actor almost did not work. He was seriously ill, for ten years he was involved in only four paintings. He played the last role in the film "Two and One" (1988). There he played the Undertaker.
Personal life
The artist had a short affair with Nadezhda Rumyantseva, a former classmate. Actor Yuri Belov, whose personal life is interesting to numerous fans, married (after 40 years) the artist Shvaiko Svetlana. At the time of marriage, his bride was 35 years old. The artist was happy in family life. In 1976, the couple was born a son Svyatoslav. His fate was not easy. The guy became a drug addict and subsequently went to jail. After his release, the young man spent several years in a monastery. Alexander Orlov, a film director, in an interview with one publication said that Svyatoslav realized his mistakes and is now on the right track. Yuri Belov, whose biography is covered in the article, died in 1991, December 31. He never waited for the New Year’s screening of Carnival Night, which reminded him of cheerful youth. The artist rests in Moscow, at the Kuntsevsky cemetery. His wife, Svetlana, survived the spouse for only a few years.
Actor in the memoirs of contemporaries
According to others, Yuri Belov was a strange person. He was a unique storyteller, in whose mouth reality and fiction sounded equally believable. Leonid Filatov recalled that Yura never wished anyone harm, didn’t gossip, didn’t swear, he was very kind and sincere. The artist’s wife, Svetlana Shvaiko, said that her husband loved to travel, warmly recalled his adolescent years spent in the Kuril Islands, and all his life dreamed of visiting Japan. The artist adored the sea, the ocean was his element. And also ... Yuri Belov loved his work very much. The actor, whose biography is sad and instructive, never held on to fame, was very vulnerable and shy. According to the memoirs of filmmaker Alexander Orlov, who, despite the unspoken ban, invited Belov to shoot two of his films, Yuri was a very versatile person. He studied the history of weapons, was interested in literature. But most of all he loved the technique. At first he had a motorcycle with a sidecar. On it, the artist traveled, traveled long distances, even traveled with his wife to the sea. And only in the last years of his life did the artist have his own car.