Biography
According to a well-known aphorism, people have long been laughing at three things - politics, sex and departure of natural necessary. In the Soviet Union, the second and third topics were banned, and political satire turned into a continuation of the general line of the party. Actor and director Alexander Menaacher managed to find a new reason for Soviet citizens for laughter - the dialogues of the spouses and the distribution of family roles. However, a comedian is known not only by creativity, but also by the fact that he is the father of Andrei Mironova.Childhood and youth
The famous estrad artist was born in April 1913 in the family of St. Petersburg lawyer Semen Menacher and his wife Anna, Jews by nationality. A year after the emergence of Alik (this, the homemade name Alexander) of the father engaged in stock operations was counted to the first merchant guild. Menackers lived in the center of St. Petersburg and had a country house in Gatchina.
Although the childhood and adolescence of Alexander fell on the years of revolutionary shocks and transformations, parents sought to give his son a great education. However, it soon became clear that the young man stretches to artistic improvisation and musitization is stronger than to academic science. The passion of Alik was to create musical instruments from home utensils.
From 15 years, Menacher Jr. worked as a musical designer in the Leningrad Live Newspaper "Machine" - played on the piano, dodged himself, removed the sounds from all sorts of cracks and poklyuk. A talented guy noted the pop artist Boris Kruzzhev and introduced him as a pianist into his Blue Jazz team. Alexander vocational education received on the acting department of the studio at BDT and the Director of the Faculty of Technical School of Stage Arts.
Personal life
In his youth, Alexander Semenovich married Ballerina Irina Luskari, daughters of film actresses Ida Laskari, the first in the family of lipisker who changed the surname on the pseudonym. From the Union with a dancer at Menacher, the son of Kirill was born.When Alexander's first century was 3 years old, the man left the family, because I met the love of my life Maria Mironov. The actress, even before the acquaintance with Menacher, has time to play in Volga Volga, for the sake of Alexander Semenovich also went to significant changes in his personal life. After the first night with a man, she sent the first husband, the operator and the scriptwriter of documentaries Mikhail Slutsk, a letter with the news, which submits on a divorce.
The first son of Menacher became famous for the maternal surname - Kirill Luskari put the dances in the films "Man-amphibian", "Straw Hat", "Pokrovsky Gate", wrote play and prosaic works. Andrei Mironov, born at Alexander and Mary in 1940, brilliantly continued acting dynasty. Molded, Menacher's children became friends. Friends and the grandchildren of the actor - Cyril Laskari Jr., Marketing Director of the TV channel "Friday", and Maria Mironova Jr., Artist, known for numerous roles in the cinema.
Theater and films
Alexander Semenovich created a unique theater of two actors, in which, together with his wife, played miniatures from family life. In Sketches, the Mironova had an amplua of a powerful nearby woman, and Menacher had a podkin husband.
In the acting duet, Alexander Semenovich retracted the background, giving Maria Vladimirovna the opportunity to demonstrate all the verge of artistic talent. In the archives of the family, a photo of speeches of a creative tandem has been preserved.
In the filmography, Menacher prevailed paintings-Review, unifying pop rooms and comic scenes. The film "Short Stories", published on television screens in 1963, film critics consider the transmission of "Zucchini" 13 chairs "". This is especially true for the Duet of the Mironovaya and Menacher, who created the images of the Pani of Christina and her husband in the "short stories".
In the television comedy "New Year's abduction", Alexander Semenovich played himself - the artist of Menacher. In the film, a wife and younger son of the actor appeared in the film in the film, as well as Muslim Magomayev, Edita Pieha, Zinovy Vysokovsky, Lyudmila Zykina, Alexander Kanevsky, Maya Plisetskaya and a number of Soviet pop stars and cinema.
According to the plot, participants of amateur amateur in order to spend a pre-New Year concert with a light in the fire unit, celebrities abduct. In the role of a policeman who is investigating the crime, Mikhail Pugovkin appeared.
Although in the full-length filmcoming "Merry Stars" of the names of the heroes of Alexander Semenovich and Mary Vladimirovna - Menacher and Mironov, the characters are not artists, but a bureaucrat official and his capricious spouse. In 1966, the Actor voiced the cartoon "about the evil stepmother" on the scenario of Lagarnas Lazar.
The play "Male and Women", according to which directed by Boris Lviv-Anokhin and Felix Slicks removed the film, playwright Leonid Zorin composed specifically for a family acting duet. In the picture, whose name reminds of the famous tape of Claude Lelouch, Menacher appeared in the image of Anania Garunsky - "Men's Men and Charming", and Mironova played eight female roles.
Death
Starting from 55 years old, Alexander Semenovich suffered several heart attacks, the first of which had caused the abolition of the wedding of Andrei's son with actress Tatiana Egorova. After the stroke, the actor called the playwright Grigory Gorin, who suffered a mop, and, without losing sense of humor, said:"You can congratulate - I reached your dictation."The cause of Menacher's death in March 1982, on the eve of Andrei's birthday, became another heart attack. Alexander Semenovich was buried in the grave of the testa and mother-in-law at the Moscow Cemetery.
Filmography
- 1954 - "Merry Stars"
- 1963 - "Short Stories"
- 1969 - "Abduction"
- 1978 - "Man and Women"