Biography
The first role in the cinema brought Evgeny Samoilov more frustration than satisfaction. By 1936 - the debut on the screen - the theater actor managed to play and the Chatsky in the "grief from the mind," and Grishchieva in Boris Godunov. The artist of the theater of Vsevolod Meyerhold Pette the frivolity of the movie.
But a proposal was made from the famous director Alexander Dovzhenko: the role of Colonel Nikolai Shchors in the ribbon eponymous not only opened the actors to the audience, but also paved the road to cinema for Samoilov. Throughout the century, his talent was revealed both on theatrical stage and in front of the camera. Love for the cinema was transferred to children - Tatyana Samoilov and her brother Alexey also became actors. The last role of the legend of Soviet and Russian cinema was played by the 91st year of life.
Childhood and youth
The actor was born in St. Petersburg in 1912, date of birth - April 16. His mother was a housewife, the family provided Father Valerian Samoilov, who worked on the Putilovsky factory (now - the Kirov plant). In 1905, the story of "Blood Sunday" began in 1905. Many later in an interview with "arguments and facts" Evgeny Samoilov recalled that his father told about participation in the demonstration on January 9. The procession led by George Gapon was shot in his eyes, the worker managed to escape only by a miracle.
The artist has always remembered the house on the Moscow-Narvskaya posture, in which he lived in childhood. It was one of the three buildings on the street, and immediately behind him began the Park Yekateringof, in which he loved to spend time. Another favorite place was the Russian Museum. Little Zhenya dreamed of becoming an artist. Drawing and literature - items by which he received top grades, while the exact sciences were given to him with difficulty.
Love for the art of his son departed father. Valerian Samoilov gladly spent the evening reading books for Eugene and his brother and drove grown children on the performances of the Alexandrinsky Theater. The high school student Evgeny Samoilov entered the private school of acting skills, founded and taught in which the actor of the imperial theaters Nikolai Hotovot.
Plans to conquer the scene for Samoilov did not lead - went to take exams to support a friend, but turned out to be enrolled. Visits to Alexandrinka became more often - theatrical art delayed the young man. And in 1930, the 18-year-old graduate of the Leningrad Art Polytechnic was received by Leonid Vivien: the director collected the youth troupe for the Leningrad Acting Theater. In 1934, Samoilov goes to the theater named after the Vsevolod Meyerhold, despite the fact that listening to the actor fails.
"So the Orobel, that words could not say," recalled the actor later. "He looked around and immediately offered me to go to his theater - gave the role of Petit in the" Forest ".For the island followed by Hugo, Pushkin, Griboedov. Samoilov received the main roles. And during this period, the artist decided to respond to the filled offers to play in the cinema.
Films
His debut is the main role in the Lyrical Comedy "Random Meeting", where Galina Pashkov became his partner. Samoilov remained unhappy with these experiences and pulled away from filming the films for a couple of years. Returned him Alexander Dovzhenko. The director who was looking for an actor for the film starring the film "Shchors", looked at Meyerhold for the rehearsal of the novel "How Steel was tempered".
Samoilov was not similar to the character of the script, did not speak Ukrainian and never sat on the horse, but it did not stop it. The return with which the group worked on the shooting, the personality of Dovzhenko and his skills were impressed by Samoilov so much that he later admits: it was the meeting with the director "identified his acting fate for decades ahead."
Meyerhold Theater was closed for the fact that he was "rolled to the alien to the Soviet art of the position," and a few months later "Shchors", for the role in which Samoilov later received the Stalinist Prize. Established and free from service in the theater, before the start of the war, the actor has time to play in 5 paintings, including in the comedy "Four Hearts". Due to the frivolousness of the ribbon, it is released after the completion of the war.
In 1940, Samoilov joins the troupe of the Theater of the Revolution (subsequently renamed Vladimir Mayakovsky's Moscow Academic Theater), which will serve until 1967. For 27 years, he will embody on the scene of the images of Jason, Hamlet, Oleg Koshevoy, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Sergo Ordzhonikidze.
Service Mellengery Artist combines with work in the cinema. At 34, he again becomes a laureate of the Stalinist Prize. The award of the second degree is awarded for the role of Artilleryrs Kudryashov in the film "At six o'clock in the evening after the war." Filmed by Ivan Pyrieval Tape not only showed historical events, but also reflected the spirit of time: the characters of the picture, in spite of everything, believed at the end of the battles and the return of the world.
At the twentieth anniversary of 1940-1960, there is a flourishing film of Samoilov. 27 paintings are published with his participation. It works with Pyriev, East Garin, Abram Room, Vladimir Basov. The filmography is replenished with the roles of General Skobelev in "Higgling heroes" who received a prize for director, Colonel Bobrov to Oleko Dundice, the battalion commander in the "living and dead".
In 1967, Khukruk is changing in the Mayakovsky Theater, and the 55-year-old Eugene Valerianovich leaves the troupe. From next year, he replenishes the acting ensemble of the metropolitan small theater. The very sign work in the film of this period is the role of Colonel Marchenko in the epopea of Sergey Bondarchuk "They fought for their homeland."
The picture comes out in 1975, and a 9-year-old occurs in Samoilov's career. Only in 1984, he returns to the screens in the role of Peter Semenova-Tian-Shanskogo: the film Yuri Solkin "Coast of His Life" is coming out, based on the biography of the Nikolai Miklukho-Maclay traveler.
In the last twenty years of life, the actor appears in five pictures. The final work is an episodic role in the television series "saved under the birch". The artist participated in the shooting, despite the fact that he was 90 years old.
Personal life
The actor married at 20 years of age. His heart conquered a student of the Engineering Faculty of the Leningrad Electromechanical Institute Zinaida Levin. By concluding the marriage in 1932, they lived together for 62 years. In 1994, the wife of Evgenia Samoilov died.
Spouses raised two children. In 1934, the daughter was born, which Tanya called. Parents did not assume that their daughters were prepared by the "Star" fate: roles in the iconic paintings, awards in Cannes and an invitation to Hollywood.
In 1945, a couple had a son Alexey. He also went in the footsteps of his father, but he could not repeat the fame of his or sister. Relations with Tatiana have always been cool.
Full Vladimir Samoilov is the same name of Evgenia Valerianovich. There are no related links between artists.
Death Evgenia Samoilova
Evgeny Samoilov lived 93 years old and until the latter did not leave the service in the theater. He died on February 16, 2006 after a long illness. His grave is located on the Vagankovsky cemetery.Filmography
- 1936 - "Random Meeting"
- 1939 - "Shchors"
- 1940 - "Light way"
- 1941 - "Hearts of Four"
- 1944 - "At 6 pm after the war"
- 1947 - "Admiral Nakhimov"
- 1951 - "Taras Shevchenko"
- 1954 - "Gipki Heroes"
- 1958 - "Oleko Dundic"
- 1964 - "Live and Dead"
- 1970 - "The Wheel of the Empire"
- 1972 - "Long road in a short day"
- 1975 - "They fought for their homeland"
- 1987 - "Boris Godunov"
- 2003 - "saved under the birch"