Biography
Leonid Kmiti - the artist, who began his career in his middle a movie, and at the end of his life was shot at one platform with Yuri Nikulin, Valery Zolotukhin and Vladimir Vysotsky. For more than half a century, the actor played in 63 films, but his famous made him the role of Ordarza Komdiva in the Ribe directors of Vasilyev "Chapaev".Childhood and youth
About the childhood actor is almost nothing known. Born in the spring of 1908, Alexey Kmita early went to work. The young mechanic of the machine-building plant after the working day attended theatrical workshops, and then graduated from the Institute of Stage Arts.
Starting to film, the guy was literally reborn. At first, the former worker invented the pseudonym: he threw the last letter from the last name and took the yard the nickname of Lenka. Then the actor cured from stuttering, who suffered from childhood. According to legend, Alexey-Leonid fell into a well, sipped by snow, and shock got rid of the defect. Good dictation appeared on time - the era of a silent cinema went away.
Films
KMIT made his debut in the tapes of the university teacher Yevgeny Veniaminovich Chervyakov, subsequently heroically deceased when the protection of Leningrad. The first tape with the participation of Leonid "Golden Beak" is considered lost.
In 1931, the actor played a major role in the peer campaign film - the future director of the "Children of Captain Grant" Vladimir Weinshtok - "Hurricane". The brave working correspondent Alexey Koval performed by Kmita was very convincing.
In 1936, the actor starred in the picture of a partner in a silent movie Igor Ilinsky "Once Summer." The comedy, resembling the plot of the "Golden Calf", had not a very successful rolling destiny due to weak operator work. Also Kmiti played in the films of Sergei Gerasimov ("Do you love you?", Komsomolsk) and Ivan Pyryeva ("Favorite Girl").
Starfriend became the role of Petka in the tape of 1934 "Chapaev". Simply truncuable orders of Vasily Ivanovich explained the wisdom of military affairs, just as in 45 years in Telesage, Igor Maslennikova Sherlock Holmes revealed the deductive method to Dr. Watson. The lyrical line of Petki and Anki is made to the film on the Personal Recommendation of Joseph Stalin. The result of the leader of the peoples revised the picture of dozens of times.
In wartime, KMIT traveled to the front as part of Agitbrigad. In the 60s-70s, Leonid Alexandrovich played small roles in such a favorite viewers paintings, like "To me, Mukhtar!" and the "Taiga Master", as well as an adventure film for children "Kortk".
Personal life
In 1931, who replenished the filmography of Kmita by 5 kinocartin, the actor fell in love with the young circus, Alexander Demyanko. In incomplete 16 years, Sasha, who was able to play a saxophone and chose a quiet, gave birth to the first daughter of Inn. After a few years, the paths of the artists diverged. Inna remained with his father. 10 years after the birth, Alexander's daughter died in prison, where he was on espionage charges.
The second wife of Leonid Alexandrovich became Galina Radish, who was only six months older than Padderitsa. At 17, Galya gave her husband to Irina's daughter. It is curious that the daughters of Kmiti "awarded" by different patrimonies: the older recorded as Leonidovna, and the younger - as Alekseevna.
Personal life of the spouses Kmita overshadrated the pathological jealousy of Leonid. In the late 50s, the woman left her husband, but the actor gave up. When Galina gave birth to Denis, Leonid Alexandrovich adopted the boy.
Baby Father - Actor Nikolai Gritsenko, who did not recognize the Son, in the mid-1970s of the 20th century, played in the film, which spawned no less anecdotes than "Chapaev", - the television series "Seventeen Moments of Spring".
Jokes about Vasily Ivanovich and Petchu pertured the Kmita. The actor had a hard character and often swore with his colleagues. The biography of a talented and non-drinking artist could be more successful if Leonid Aleksandrovich did not enter the rancings with directors and did not suit family scandals. The last years of the life of KMIT spent alone, removing in episodic roles.
Death
Leonid Alexandrovich died on March 10, 1982, the day after the 74th birthday. The cause of death is myocardial infarction.The legendary "Petka" found the last shelter on the Kuntsevsky cemetery of Moscow. 14 years old near Leonid Alexandrovich buried Inna Kmiti. Above the grave is a monument with two photos - father and daughter. In 2019, the second wife of the actor and his adopted son went away from life. Galina and Denis are buried on the Troyekovsky cemetery.
Filmography
- 1928 - "Golden Beak"
- 1931 - "Hurricane"
- 1934 - "Chapaev"
- 1936 - "Girl hurries for a date"
- 1936 - "Once in the summer"
- 1940 - "Favorite Girl"
- 1955 - "Alien Rod"
- 1959 - "Moumu"
- 1960 - "Michman Panin"
- 1961 - "Raised virgin"
- 1964 - "To me, Mukhtar!"
- 1968 - "Taiga Master"
- 1973 - "Cort"
- 1980 - "Star Inspector"