Biography
The magnificent master of theatrical scene Leonid Markov easily passed on to the movies. High growth, open masculinity and fascinating voice made a man of the star of Soviet screens. However, friends and colleagues Markov are confident that the acting Talander did not manage to appreciate the dignity, and Leonid never played "his", "the very" role.Childhood and youth
Leonid Markov appeared in the small Kazakhstan village of Alekseevka. Despite the place of birth, by nationality, the actor Russian. His father Vasily Demyanovich served as an actor in provincial theaters, and Mom Maria Petrovna worked with him, only makeup.
When Lenya was small, the family was constantly moving. Father translated into one city of the immense union, then in another. Markov managed to live in Kineshma, Ashgabat, Saratov, Vologda and even Yakutsk. Leonid, together with the sister of Roman Markova, who also became a famous actress, grew behind the scenes. The children came to the scene early, they were involved in children's productions.
Lenya for the first time I learned the features of the acting profession, speaking in the Saratov Drama Theater. Debuted on stage in the play "Uncle Tom Hut". It is noteworthy that the love of this difficult did not come immediately. The boy did not experience passion to the theater, Maniiled Other classes - Leonid perfectly painted, sculpted from clay, worked on a car thread, hatching the dream to become an artist. And also, unlike sister, he studied well at school.
In adolescence, he decided to devote the lives to acting, following the Roman enrolling in the studio, which Vologda Theater discovered for young tagging. Khudruk Lia Rothbaum looked at the non-residential talent of Leonid Markov and, together with his sister, he took it to "show in Moscow."
The guys took in the ranks of the Studio of the Moscow Theater. Leninsky Komsomol. Once away from the background of the house, Leonid with Rimma learned what hunger was (the post-war card system was still operating) and the lack of a roof above the head. I had to live even at the station. Later brother and sister sheltered theatrical subsidiary, and then the hostel of the Energy Institute.
Theater
The professional biography of Markov began with the stage of the Theater of the Leninsky Komsomol, in the troupe of which the young man was enrolled in 1950. In the future, the actor changed a lot of temples Melpomen. He played in MDT them. Pushkin, shone on the scene of the theater. Mossovet, season went into a small theater.
Leonid Vasilyevich was able to be replayed in performances constituting the backbone of repertoires. He has tried the images of Yasha in the "Vishnevian Garden" Chekhov, Petrushina in the "live corpse" of Lion Tolstoy, reincarnated in Timofeya Rvana in a play on the work of Mikhail Sholokhov "Raised virgin".
The list of theatrical roles are Petrophin Petrovich from the novel of Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment", the antipa from the "Zykov" Maxim Gorky. And these are only the plays set by the works of classics.
Films
In the movie Artist debuted in 1955. Markov got an episodic role in the painting "Mother". Soon a breakthrough could happen in the film. Grigory Chukhray was going to put the play Boris Lavreneva "Forty-first" and on the main party - a White Guard officer - Seriously considered Leonid Vasilyevich. The actor brilliantly passed the stage of samples, but after a long random director made a choice in favor of Oleg Strizhenov.
Critics and sister Rimma say it was a gold chance for Markov, a gift of fate. Like the Rasputin image in the film element of Klimov "Agony", which he also did not bring in the end. Rimma Markova stated with regret: brother, alas, just did not know how to fight for the role, and did not want.
Until the early 70s, the actor filmography was replenished slowly. And in 1971, the "Russian Field" melodrama was released on the screens. This film and Markov himself included the list of his favorite works, and the audience, finally reviewed the actor's talent - the role of Avdius Ugrumov brought all-union fame. The composition of the artists of the starry - Nonna Mordyukova, Vladimir Tikhonov, Lyudmila Kittyaeva, Vyacheslav innocent.
In full force, Leonid Vasilyevich declared himself in the late 70s - early 80s, creating a bright gallery of characters. Together with Oleg Yankovsky and Kirill Lavrov, a trio of the grooms in the drama "My tender and gentle beast". I reincarnated in a gloomy, quiet and fitted widower of Urbenin, for whom the calculating heroine went under the crown.
Magnikov turned out to be a magnificent scientist Smirnovsky in the comedy of Eldar Ryazanov "Garage". The thinking and responsive supervisor Anatoly Petrovich showed no horses in the manufacturing drama "Horses". In the film "Flying with Cosmonaut" appeared in the form of a fair and intelligent colonel militia.
Leonid Markov managed to join the acting of the adventure tape "Osters of Treasure". Director Vladimir Vorobyev entrusted a man the role of Pirate Billy Bons, the first assistant on the ship of Captain Flint. Oleg Borisov, Fyodor Knikov, Valery Zolotukhin became his colleagues for this painting.
In memory of the audience, Leonid Vasilyevich remained like a hero of still many films. I remember the actor in the roles of "seven hours to death", "kindergarten", "snakes". The point in the career put a mystical comedy "Hotel" Eden, "where Markov got the main role. Yes, what - played Satan. However, another pair of actors became unusual characters: Alexander Pankratov-black served the functions of the guardian angel, and Tatyana Dogileva reincarnated into the witch.
Personal life
Leonid Markov became popular with the opposite sex, women adored him. Rimma's sister recalled:
"I didn't understand his beauty, because blondes for me as men did not exist. I could never take in a sense why women literally tear his brother on the part. He is so shy, quiet. Lenya first fell in love with our fellowboard and, when he saw that some kind of guy came up with her, fainted - such was sensitive. "Leonid's novels went about legends, love doves even disassembled at the trade union. The actor had four official wives. They say the first family collapsed because of the jealousy of the spouse. The two subsequent marriage also turned out to be short. And only with the last spouse Elena Leonid Vasilyevich lived two decad.
The novel twisted during the showing of the performance, at that time the girl worked as an engineer on television. As Elena Vladimirovna admitted, in a state man fell in love immediately.
The difference in age - 16 years - did not interfere with happiness, the spouses spent a lot of time together. Leonid has heard an interesting interlocutor, erudite, read. The actor drew well and loved to relax with his wife at the cottage. After the death of her husband, Elena Markov looked around that she did not give birth to children in this marriage.
Death
Leonid Vasilyevich played in the picture of the "snakes" dying from the character's cancer. After six years, the same disease of the overall and the actor itself. Doctors diagnosed the gastric cancer, from which Markov "burned" in a short period of time.
A talented actor died in early March 1991, his grave is located on the main alley of the Kuzminsky cemetery.
Filmography
- 1955 - "Mother"
- 1971 - "Russian field"
- 1975 - "The Peasant Son"
- 1976 - "Red and Black"
- 1978 - "My tender and gentle beast"
- 1979 - "Garage"
- 1979 - "Vera and the Truth"
- 1980 - "Horses on the crossing do not change"
- 1982 - "Treasure Island"
- 1983 - "Kindergarten"
- 1985 - "Snakes"
- 1991 - "Hotel" Eden "