Yury Yakovlev

Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev (russian: Ю́рий Васи́льевич Я́ковлев; 25 April 1928 – 30 November 2013) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1976.

Main works

Yury Yakovlev is best known for his roles in late Soviet film, particularly for his roles in Eldar Ryazanov's and Leonid Gaidai's comedies. Yakovlev's most popular comedic roles in Eldar Ryazanov's films are Poruchik Rzhevsky in '' Hussar Ballad'' (1962), Ippolit in '' The Irony of Fate'' (1976), and comic roles of the tsar Ivan the Terrible and his namesake Ivan Vasilevich Bunsha in Leonid Gaidai's comedy '' Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future'' (1973).Russkiy Mir Foundation Information Service
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Article BELOVED RUSSIAN ACTOR YURI YAKOVLEV DIES AT AGE OF 85 (02.12.2013) ''RUSSKIY MIR FOUNDATION''. Moscow. Retrieved 2021/01/19 (19 January 2021) He also played dramatic roles, such as inimitable complicated psychological role of the Prince Myshkin in '' The Idiot'' (1958), and other cinema roles (''Dangerous turn'', '' Earthly Love'' movies).Ruggero
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''findagrave''. Moscow. Retrieved 2021/01/19 (19 January 2021) He was the leading artist of the Vakhtangov Theater during its heyday.

Life and career

The early years

From a young age he was fond of acting and theatre. At the turn of the 1940s, he studied acting at Shchukin Theatrical School of Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow starting to work as an actor at Vakhtangov Theatre.

Theatrical career

Yakovlev joined the ensemble of the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1952. He played over seventy roles onstage, including Casanova in ''Three Ages of Casanova'', Duke Bolingbroke in ''Glass of Water'', and Prokofiev in ''Lessons of Master''.

Film career

Yakovlev became really famous as a cinema actor in 1958, after his inimitable complicated psychological role of the Prince Myshkin in '' The Idiot'' directed by Ivan Pyryev. He achieved international fame playing the role as Prince Myshkin. Yakovlev made his first appearance in an Eldar Ryazanov comedy in 1961, in ''The Man From Nowhere''. Yakovlev followed his first success with regular appearances in Ryazanov's comedies, most notably splendid film Hussar Ballad in 1962, in which he played phantasmagoric role of Poruchik Rzhevsky. The feature was such a resounding success that Rzhevsky's character gave rise to innumerable Russian jokes.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Yakovlev branched out into further various roles, from the nobleman Stiva Oblonsky in the 1967 adaptation, the classic Soviet movie adaptation of Tolstoy's '' Anna Karenina'', directed by Alexander Zarkhi, to jealous fiancé Ippolit in Ryazanov's '' The Irony of Fate''.Биография Юрия Яковлева
/ref> Perhaps his most famous roles were the tsar Ivan the Terrible and his namesake Ivan Vasilevich Bunsha in Leonid Gaidai's 1973 comedy '' Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future'' - the movie about the travel using the time machine (based on the play '' Ivan Vasilievich (play)'' by Mikhail Bulgakov).

Decline in popularity

His participation in two-part film "Love Earth" and "Destiny" - a series of movies about the World War II brought him the USSR State Prize for 1979. His film career effectively came to a halt after the role of the alien Bi in Georgiy Daneliya’s 1986 sci-fi comedy '' Kin-dza-dza!'' where he starred alongside Yevgeny Leonov and Stanislav Lyubshin. The last role in Ikno was the role in the film ''The Irony of Fate 2'' (''Ирония судьбы. Продолжение'') as Ippolit Georgievich.

Death

Yakovlev felt ill in early morning of 29 November 2013. He soon fainted in his home. He was rushed to a Moscow hospital where he died there on 30 November 2013 from heart failure, aged 85. On the same day, the death of Yuri Yakovlev was reported by RIA Novosti to ''Times.am'' 'with reference to the theater's press service.
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USSR People's Artist Yury Yakovlev died in the hospital
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Bibliography

In 1997, the publishing house ''Art'' (''Iskusstvo'') published a book by Yakovlev entitled ''Album of my destiny'' (russian: Альбом судьбы моей, translit=Al'bom sud'by moyey)

Selected filmography

*1953: '' The Great Warrior Skanderbeg'' (''russian: Великий воин Албании Скандербег'') as Warrior
*1956: ''Early Joys'' (''Первые радости'') as Vasily Dibich, lieutenant
*1957: '' No Ordinary Summer'' (''Необыкновенное лето'') as Vasily Dibich, lieutenant
*1957: ''Pervye radosti'' as Dibich (uncredited)
*1958: '' The Idiot'' (''Идиот'') as Prince Myshkin
*1958: '' Wind'' (''Ветер'') as Leonid Zakrewsky, lieutenant
*1959: ''Gorod na zare'' as Altman
*1959: ''Ballad of a Soldier'' (''Баллада о солдате'') as narrator (uncredited)
*1960: ''Zare navstrechu'' as Pyotr Sapozhkov
*1961: '' Nowhere Man'' (''Человек ниоткуда'') as Vladimir Porazhaev
*1962: '' Hussar Ballad'' (''Гусарская баллада'') as Lieutenant Dmitry Rzhevsky
*1963: '' Bolshaya doroga'' as Polivanov
*1964: '' Summer Is Over'' as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
*1964: '' An Easy Life'' (''Легкая жизнь'') as Alexander P. Bochkin, underground businessman
*1964: ''Russkiy les'' as German Officer Walter Kittel
*1966: '' Beware of the Car'' (''Берегись автомобиля'') as narrator (voice)
*1966: ''Friends and Years'' (''Друзья и годы'') as Yuri Derzhavin
*1967: '' A Pistol Shot'' (''Выстрел'') as count
*1967: '' Anna Karenina'' (''Анна Каренина'') as Stiva Oblonsky
*1968: '' Crash'' (''Крах'') as Andrey Pavlovich Fyodorov
*1969: ''Subject for a Short Story'' as Potapenko
*1970: ''Korol-olen'' as Deramo
*1970: ''Sinyaya ptitsa'' (voice)
*1972: '' The Seagull'' (''Чайка'') as Boris Alexeyevich Trigorin, writer
*1972: ''Grandads-Robbers'' (''Старики-разбойники'') as narrator (voice)
*1973: ''Skhvatka'' as Joachim
*1973: '' Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future'' (''Иван Васильевич меняет профессию'') as Ivan the Terrible / Ivan Vasilievich Bunsha, building superintendent
*1973: '' Much Ado About Nothing'' (''Много шума из ничего'') (TV Movie) (uncredited)
*1975: '' Earthly Love'' (''Любовь земная'') as Tikhon Bruchanov, Secretary of district committee of Communist Party
*1975: '' The Irony of Fate'' (''Ирония судьбы, или С лёгким паром!'') (TV Mini-Series) as Ippolit Georgievich
*1977: '' Destiny'' (''Судьба'') as Tikhon Bruchanov, Secretary of district committee of Communist Party
*1978: ''Yuliya Vrevskaya'' as Nikolai Nikolaevich
*1978: ''Pravo pervoy podpisi'' as Narrator (voice)
*1979: ''Barkhatnyy sezon''
*1980: ''Poema o krylyakh'' as Igor Sikorskiy
*1981: ''An Ideal Husband'' (''Идеальный муж'') as Sir Robert Chiltern
*1982: ''Carnival'' (''Карнавал'') as Mikhail Solomatin, father of Nina
*1982: ''Beshenye dengi'' as Ivan Telyatyev
*1986: '' Kin-dza-dza!'' (''Кин-дза-дза!'') as Bee - the wandering Patsak singer
*1986: ''Vremya synovey''
*1987: ''Levsha''
*1987: ''Izbrannik sudby'' as Narrator (voice)
*1988: ''Shtany''
*1988: '' Treasure Island'' as Ben Gunn (voice)
*1990: '' A Trap for Lonely Man'' as Police inspector
*1991: ''Sem dney posle ubiystva''
*1992: ''Plashchanitsa Aleksandra Nevskogo''
*1992: ''Tantsuyushchiye prizraki''
*1992: '' Gardemarines-III'' (''Гардемарины-III'') as Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin
*1992: ''Davayte bez fokusov!...'' as Ot avtora
*1993: ''Children of Iron Gods'' (''Дети чугунных богов'') as general
*1993: ''Supermen ponevole ili eroticheskiy mutant''
*1999: '' East/West'' as Vieil Homme Kommonalka
*2007: ''The Irony of Fate 2'' (''Ирония судьбы. Продолжение'') as Ippolit Georgievich (final film role)

Honors and awards

*Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts
* Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1961)
* People's Artist of the RSFSR (1968)
*People's Artist of the USSR (1976)
* Order "For Merit to the Fatherland":
**2nd class (10 June 2008) - for outstanding contributions to the development of domestic theatrical and cinematic arts, many years of creative activity
**3rd class (17 October 1996) - for services to the State and outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical arts
* Order of Lenin (1988)
* Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1978)
* USSR State Prize (1979) - for his role Tikhon Ivanovich Bryukhanova in two-part film "Love Earth" and "Destiny"
*Stanislavsky State Prize of the RSFSR (1970) - for his performance as Yegor Dmitrievich Glumova in the play "The Wise Man Stumbles" by Alexander Ostrovsky
*State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and Art in 1994 (29 May 1995) - for the performance of the State Academic Theatre named Eugene. Vakhtangov "Guilty Without Guilt" on the play by Alexander Ostrovsky
*Russian Federation President Prize in Literature and Art in 2003 (13 February 2004) - for outstanding creative and scientific contribution to the artistic culture of Russia
* Golden Mask Awards, awarded with "Silver Mask" for best actor ( Salvador Allende, "Unfinished Dialogue") (1976)
*Gold Medal for AP Dovzhenko film ''Destiny'' (1978)
*Crystal Turandot Award (1998)
*Prize of the business community, "Idol" for high service to art (1999)
*Chekhov Medal (2010)

References

External links

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Yakovlev on the Vakhtangov Theatre HomepageBiography of Yury Yakovlev

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Russian male film actors
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