Biography
George Vicin - Soviet actor and movie actor. People's Artist of the USSR. Known participation in comedy film.
Georgy Mikhailovich Vicin, the famous Soviet actor and cinema, was born in 1917 in the town of Terioki (now - Zelenogorsk). When the boy turned 8 months old, the family moved to Moscow. According to official information, the actor was born in 1918, but the date was changed by Mom, so that the sown would take into a health camp. Maria Matveyevna decided to take such a step, because George did not pass by age, and the places remained only in the younger group. The mother of the future actor knew as a hardworking woman who had grown her son. Mare Matveyevna returned from the war and seriously ill, so he lived for a short time.
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In childhood, George was a shy boy, so no one even imagined that he would choose an acting profession. But in school years, the guy decided forever to leave shower in the past, starting to go to the local theatrical studio. Then the young man firmly decided that he wanted to become an actor.
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After school, George enters the School of the Small Theater, where he studied little time, as the leadership was exposed to a student with a very funny wording - "for a frivolous attitude towards study." It was so rained the future celebrity that in the fall he decided to flow at once in 3 theater studios. After passing the entrance tests of the talented young man, they are invited to the Wild Studio (the Moscow Theater Team, organized by actor Alexei Wild) and the Theater of Revolution, as well as the Vakhtangov School. Vicin chose the last option. The actor was not delayed in this prestigious educational institution, and a year later I was transferred to the MCAT-2 Theater Studio, which he successfully completed.
Theater
Since 1936, Vicin has been working at the Yermolova Theater. The theater career of the artist developed rapidly, the viewer quickly loved the young artist. It is safe to say that Vicin is popular at this time and in demand, because regular crowds of fans went on performances with the participation of a novice actor. Employees of theatrical institution recalled that if Vicin was not played, the visitor simply passed the ticket to the cashier and went. Even harsh theatrical critics recognized the talent of the artist and wrote exclusively positive reviews.
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In total, Georgy Mikhailovich worked on the stage of the Ermolova Theater 33 years. Vicin played a lot of roles, but the main production in which the actor participated was the comedy play "Taming of the Teller". The image of an old-imparent, whom the artist played, liked the viewer so much that the halls were always filled to refusal. The scenic career was in full swing when the actor decided to change the theater for the cinema. It was unexpected, but soon it will be clear that a similar decision will affect creative biography positively, because in the future the actor will become the legend of Soviet cinema.
Films
The cinematic debut of the actor took place in 1951. The artist played an episodic role in the picture "Ivan Grozny". Later, he was approved on the main role of Gogol in the film "Belinsky". A lot of famous actors came to the sample, but the director's assistant approved the candidacy of Vicin, seeing in the challenge to the role of Gogol's features. It is noteworthy that for his film from Georgy Mikhailovich played Gogol three times, such a natural and realistic studied character looked like.
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Vicin is a diverse actor who managed any images. But the popularity came after comedy roles. The first famous comedy, in which George played the young football player Veshnushkin, became the film "Spare Player". Interestingly, he fell on samples by chance. Vicin was tried on a role in Fin Cartine Finzimmer, but an attempt was unsuccessful. The actor was already wanted to return to Moscow, but he noticed the assistant director. After successful samples, Georgia was approved to the major role of Vasi Vasznushkin, a young promising athlete.
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Vicin has always been very thoroughly prepared to transfer a new image on the screen. Before the shooting, the actor paid a lot of time to sports training, performing exercise at the stadium to fit the hero of the film. When the artist was offered the role of Springkina, he was not 25, as the director thought, and 37. In this regard, the actor was a phenomenal person, the age of Vicin for others remained a mystery. The actor looked very young, and in his 40 could easily play a young guy for 17 years. All because Georgy Mikhailovich led a healthy lifestyle: did not smoke, did not drink, and also did not forget about yoga classes. The actor responsibly and scrupulously referred to health, did not like the feast and ignored the noisy gatherings. At the same time, the roles of drunks performed reliably and realistic.
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After the brilliant role of Vasi, Vasznushkin actors were invited to the film "She loves you!". Vicin played perfectly by performing complex tricks. An episode with water skiing was assumed to remove with a double, but the director decided to use George. Alarm trick Actor performed perfectly.
In 1955, he was invited to the painting "Marriage Balzaminov". The director persuaded the artist for a long time, who did not agree in any way, because he got the role of a 25-year-old guy, and at that time the artist turned 48.
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This recognition came to the actor after participating in the picture "Dog Barbos and an unusual cross", because in this film the viewer for the first time saw a cult trience - a coward, a balbes and experienced. After that, Yevgeny Morgunov, Yuri Nikulin and Georgy Vicin became nationwide favorites. This legendary Trinity appeared more than once in the films of Leonid Gaidai: "Moonshoes", "Operation" s "and other adventures of Shurika", "Caucasian Captive or New Adventures of Shurik".
Soon appended on the screen in the films "Business People", "Twelfth Night", "Old, Old Tale" and others. In 1990, the actor toured a lot around the country with two colleagues, and his photos are increasingly recognized by ordinary Soviet citizens, not at all interested movies. Also tried to allocate time and theatrical work, played in the theater of the film actor.
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George Vicin is also an excellent declamator, because in addition to acting, he voiced the cartoons. In the artist's account, dozens of animations: "Konk-Gorbok", "High Mountain", "Snowman-Mailing" and many others.
Vicin's films were loved by the Soviet viewer. People remember the famous works that Leonid Gaidai created, and decades later continue to watch exciting paintings. Nevertheless, in the creative biography of the actor there are art films, where Georgy Mikhailovich, as always showed himself just brilliantly, phenomenally playing funny characters, but the wide audience bypassed such filmters by the party. We are talking about the film "Increic Lyudi", which undeservedly found itself in the shadow of other creations, where Vicin noted.
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In the picture of Villena Azarov, the actor played Masters-Hairdresser Alexei Ivanovich Tyutyurin, a man with a very kind and soft character. In the plot, Hero Vicin constantly falls into unpredictable situations affecting his life. Once in the next shot on the way to work, the hairdresser is late, and the bosses do not believe in the incredible stories of the employee, refusing to sign the characteristic, which will contribute to the head of the head.
The brilliant performance of the role, as well as songs that loved adults and children - a vivid example of the professionalism of the actor. George Vicin managed to convey the essence of life situations, and sometimes the unfair perception of the truth from the people.
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The Kininomedy "Increactible Lygun" can be safely recorded on the list of best works George Vicin, and the picture is attributed to the semantic films of the comedy genre, which clearly demonstrate how hard to survive good in the modern world.
Personal life
Nadezhda Topolev - the first civilian wife of the actor with which Vicin lived for many years. The pair did not form a relationship officially. According to the daughter of the actor, the hope did not want this, and the father did not insist. It is noteworthy that the beloved woman was much older artist. After parting, Vicin did not throw a topolev, brought products and medicines, tried to always help.
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With Tamara Fedorovna, official wife, the actor lived until the last days, it was the spouse and cared for him. The pair had a daughter Natasha, whom Vicin loved very much.
Natalia Vicin often recalls her father. Once in an interview with the daughter of the legend of the Soviet cinema, he said that the famous actor liked to draw. According to a woman, George Mikhailovich more approached a different profession - artist and sculptor.
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It is known that in the break between the shooting, the actor could quickly make an outline portrait of colleagues. Partners George Vicin on the film "Caucasian Captive" is remembered by a cartoon for Yuri Nikulina, made by an artist on filming film.
Death
Older than the years, the great artist moved to a small "Khrushchev", giving his daughter a spacious apartment in the center of the capital. In the late 90s, Vicin had a little communicated with whom, tried not to give an interview. It only went out to feed the pigeons.
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The actor died on October 21, 2001. The cause of death is chronic liver and heart disease. In the hometown of the artist installed a monument in his honor.
On October 25, 2001, a civil servant in the Central House of Cinematographers in Moscow took place. On the same day, the People's Artist buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.
Thousands of Muscovites came to say goodbye to the legend of Soviet cinema. Farewell ceremony visited both prominent figures of cinema: Nikita Mikhalkov, Nina Golshikova, Alexander Shirvindt, Alexey Buldakov, Natalia Varley, Vladimir Etush and others.
The mourning ceremony was modest, because the actor himself did not like the bustle around his person at all. Only after death it became known that Georgy Mikhailovich worked to the last to provide a family.
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Soviet artist loved animals and birds very much. Having learned about this, two Muscovites from the approval of Vicin's relatives brought a cell with 12 pigeons to a dihokhide, releasing birds at the moment of the actor's body takeaway.
The Chairman of the Union of Cinematographers Nikita Mikhalkov made a farewell speech, which clearly describes the professionalism and achievement of the actor.
"The comedic artist of this scale in Russia was not and will never be. Just having heard his last name, people were silent, a smile always appeared on the faces. He had a gift to look at his characters as if from the side, and therefore even negative heroes always adored the audience, "said Nikita Mikhalkov.Filmography
- Behind matches
- Comedy for long days
- Hands up
- Life threatening!
- Operation "s" and other adventures of Shurik
- Rival
- Journey Pana Klyaksi
- Twelve Chairs
- Sun, again the sun
- Brave guys
- Several love stories
- Incorrigible liar.
- Caucasian captive
- Formula Rainbow
- Gentlemen of Fortune