Biography
Yuri Vasilyev - People's Artist of the Russian Federation, the famous actor starred in the history of Soviet cinema "Journalist", "Bat Mouse" and Moscow does not believe in tears. "
The future star of screens and pets of Russian women was born in Moscow a couple of years before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Although Yuri was very small and the horror of those terrible years did not even remember, all the same, the war was reflected in the character and worldview of the actor.
The artist's family was very intelligent and belonged to the intellectual elite of the capital. Mom worked as a librarian, and his father is an engineer. Vasilyev Most wanted to learn to understand other people, and the best opportunity for this, the future artist saw reincarnation into other images. Therefore, at the end of the high school, the young man enters one of the most prestigious theatrical universities of the country, Moscow guitis named after Lunacharsky, which Vasilyev graduated in 1961.
The gifted and talented actor was immediately invited to the troupe of the famous small theater, and there Yuri Vasiliev served until the end of his days, remaining the consistent participant of almost all the play of the theater.
Films and theater
In the cinema, Yuri Vasilyev made his debut, studying at the last year of the institute, and immediately in the lead role. The actor played the role of Nikolos Stangas in the dramatic tape of "lips of sponges". Then followed the film "Washington History" and Melodrama "Tsari". But all-Russian popularity artist brought the production drama "Journalist".
It would seem that the young, attractive and talented actor should have not had a penalty from the proposals of directors and screenwriters. But the bulk of the filmography of Vasilyeva continued to be teleface. Most likely, it was due to the fact that the theater for Yuri Nikolayevich always stood in the first place.
From the 1960s, the year of his own debut in the cinema, and before the beginning of the 70s, the actor appeared only in five movie recorders, but in the theater Yuri Vasilyev for the same period received 16 roles. The actor's repertoire included both the classic and modern actuator.
The weighty part of the theater biography of Vasilyeva was the roles in performances according to the recognized works of Russian classical literature, and most often the basics of performances became works, initially intended by the authors for drama: the play "Power of Darkness" Lion Nikolayevich Tolstoy, his own play "Live Corpse", dramatic play " Thunderstorm "and the comedy" Mad Money "Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, drama in verses Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov" Masquerade ", the famous comedy Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol" Auditor ".
An actor appeared in the performances of world classics, and, for example, in the production of Lady Windermier Fan, on the work of Oscar Wilde, Yuri Vasilyev played first a unnamed young man, and after a year he received the role of Mr. Dam. Yuri Vasilyev also played in the "Robber" of Friedrich Schiller and the late play of Henrik Ibsen "Yun Gabriel Borkman."
I did not go around the creative biography of Yuri Vasilyeva and the works of Soviet authors: "Wings" Alexander Evdokimovich Kornechuk, "Love Yarovaya" Konstantin Andreevich Treneva, "Money" Anatoly Vladimirovich Sofronova, "Port Arthur" Alexander Nikolayevich Stepanova and others. Moreover, "Port Arthur" became the debut performance of a young actor. Yuri Vasilyev played an unplaced sailor. Subsequently, the actor played again in this formulation, but an already significant role of Akinfiyev.
In the 70s, the number of kinocartin, in which the actor was shot annually, the beginning of steadily growing. Fans could see him in the military picture of "personal happiness", television series "First joy" and a musical comedy "Handsome man". But, nevertheless, most actor cinematic roles remained secondary.
The peak of the Glory of the Artist fell at the end of the 70s. At first, the actor played Prince Orlovsky in the humorous operelette "bat", and then depicted on the screen of selfish Rodion Rachkov in the cult melodrama "Moscow does not believe in tears", which was awarded the famous prestigious film "Oscar".
None of the film crew participated in the awards ceremony. The director of the awarded "Oscare" generally found out only from the news message in the time program. The cherished award instead of the representatives of the film crew received an attache on the culture of the USSR Embassy in the United States. In the Soviet Union itself, the film received a state prize.
The plot of the paintings tells about the life of three provincial girls who came to conquer Moscow, but faced with human cruelty and many problems on the way to happiness. The role of Yuri Vasilyeva in this famous film is rather negative. The actor played a man who found out that his beloved is not a professorial daughter, but who came from the province of the plant, and chokingly threw the girl, despite the fact that she is pregnant.
It is also worth noting the work of Vasilyeva, as a movie "Horses on the crossing do not change", the production drama "We live here", the musical "We are from Jazz" and the youth picture Valentin and Valentina. In the last years of life, Yuri Nikolaevich continued to work a lot. He participated in the creation of a fantastic militant "Creek Dolphin", the spy tape "announcement is not subject to" and the criminal drama "nothing happened."
The last film in the life of Yuri Nikolayevich Vasilyeva was the tragic melodrama "just do not leave" in which he starred with Elena Sotnikova.
Personal life
With the only spouse, the actress Nelli Kornienko, Yuri Vasilyev met on vacation in Gelendzhik. A stormy resort novel is not UGAS and on return to Moscow. Young people met for about three years, and then got married. After 8 years of joint relations, the spouses were born daughter of Catherine, who was the only child Yuri Nikolayevich.
At the same time, the feelings of lovers were so great that her husband and wife were not parted at home or at work, since Nelli also went to work in a small theater. Vasilyev and Kornienko played together a couple of times in the cinema. For example, in the debut picture of the actor "Sponge catcher" in love, in fact, showed their own feelings, because the actors' characters were also in love with each other.
In the personal life, the actor was a very quiet and intelligent person. He did not like to give interviews, attract the attention of the public to his private life. The modesty of the man was even the fact that he built a private house in the suburbs with his own hands, whereas he had all the opportunities to get anything with the help of one phone call.
Death
At the beginning of the summer of 1999, the actor Yuri Vasilyev arrived in his car to pass the mandatory technical inspection to the maintenance station. A few hours spent on the heat, as well as the nervous setting too worried a man. Upon returning home, having emerged, the actor could relax on the sofa, and soon the spouse discovered his minded body. The cause of death was a heart attack. It is noteworthy that shortly before the tragedy Yuri Nikolayevich was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
Yuri Nikolaevich is buried at the Don Cemetery. The grave of the actor is combined with the grave of parents Yuri Vasilyeva.
Filmography
- 1960 - "Sponge Catches"
- 1962 - "Washington Story"
- 1967 - "Journalist"
- 1973 - "The Last day"
- 1977 - "First joy"
- 1979 - "Bat"
- 1979 - "Moscow does not believe in tears"
- 1979 - "Unusual Summer"
- 1980 - "Horses on the crossing do not change"
- 1982 - "We live here"
- 1983 - "We are from jazz"
- 1984 - Valentin and Valentina
- 1989 - "Nothing happened"
- 1992 - "Just do not go"
- 1992 - "Killing Gonzago"