Biography
Sergey Gourzo is well known for representatives of the older generation on the roles in black and white feature films taken after the Great Patriotic War. Along with the actors of Nonaya Mordyukovka, George Yumatov and Vyacheslav Tikhonov, he became the idol of thousands of residents of the immense Soviet country.Childhood and youth
Sergey Safonovich Gurzo was born on September 23, 1926 in a densely populated communal apartment located in the center of Moscow. The beginning of the life of the future actor passed in the patriarchal atmosphere, because the grandfather was an arbitrary and a connoisseur of ancient.
The father received a medical education and worked in the hospital in a neuropathologist, and also became famous among students of the capital as a strict teacher of the exact sciences. The mother was an honorary officer of the famous Gnesinsky school, and thanks to this, the family was part of the intelligent metropolitan circle.
Native uncle for the standards of the past was considered the famous artist who played in theatrical productions and filmed in the movies. On weekends, he introduced relatives with newly created artistic films, because in the pre-war time it was too established.
Gurzo grew up in the company of relatives, who loved sports, noisy games, externally and internally resembling ordinary Soviet children. In school years, active teenagers knew how to combine rest with school and often deserved compliments of parents, teachers and friends.
In 1941, when fascists attacked the USSR, Sergey, who heard terrible news, decided to go to war. But due to the lack of an identity card, not put on the 15-year schoolboy, he was forced to stay at home and work in a safe rear.
Noting the 17th birthday, Gourzo went to the front volunteer and, hitting the territory of Poland, was seriously injured in battle. He passed a rehabilitation course in a number of mobile specialized hospitals and by 1944 wanted to be in the ranks again.
However, the medical board decided to send a young man to the capital, where after the victory he contacted the group of advanced intelligent people. Having received the Council to become a student of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, Sergey, to the joy of surviving relatives, plunged into the world of theatrical passions.
The future star of Soviet films was lucky with teachers, and he was supposed to absorb the experience of famous masters. Among them were Boris Vladimirovich Bibikov and Olga Ivanovna Pyzov, famous for lovers of cinema 1930-1940s.
Personal life
In his youth, Sergey Gourzo was an attractive man, and many students of the Cinematography Institute literally went crazy. The guy met with pretty classmates until Simonov's Nadezhda appeared in his personal life - the first legitimate wife.
After a modest wedding, the couple settled in the communal apartment of the actor's parents. In a short, but happy marriage has two children. The twins of Natasha and Seryozha became the pride of his father and mother and presented them later a lot of joyful days.
The cloudless existence ended, after the actor became popular, he was invited to banquets and treat fortified wine. Gourzo addicted to alcohol, neglected family well-being and allowed the misfortune to get into the house.
After dismissal from the theater, Nadezhda, taking care of his son and daughter, without unnecessary scenes and loud scandals filed a divorce application. Sergey for a while remained alone, without comrades and work, but in the end I coped with the situation and survived a series of adversity.
Soon in the field of view, the man appeared an artist Irina Gubanova, and then Anya was born, outwardly similar to his father. Unfortunately, the relationship was rapidly buried because of the harmful addies of Sergey, and it was the first step towards the beginning of the tragic end.
A man did not care about older children because of the novel with a circuit Gitana Leontenko and did not recognize that the twins were safely entered by VGIK. Marriage with a woman left unknown, and the birth of two more kids researchers of the actor's biography described as the last happy moment.
Films
In the student years, Gurzo starred in the "Young Guard" art film, having received the role of hundreds of thousands of people for the role of Sergey Tyulenina. In the face of colleagues and authors painting Nonna Mordyukov, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Vladimir Rapoport and Sergey Gerasimov The future actor found friends.
Most of the participants in the filmization of the famous novel by Alexander Fadeev received the Stalin Prize in 1949. Scripts and directors celebrated the talent of the graduate of VGIK and began to regularly invite a film star to the projects.
In the 50s, tapes "to meet life" and "bold people" came to the screens, and then the audience looked at the "disturbing youth" and "I will insert in the mountains." Gourzo instantly gained popularity thanks to the skill of reincarnation, and his name regularly sounded in the capital's intelligent circles.
Unfortunately, it had a detrimental effect on the further fate of Sergey, because he plunged into the atmosphere of the holiday and began to drink alcohol. He began to neglect rehearsals due to regular parties and did not understand at the time he loses control over the future.
Some family cinematographers closed their eyes to bad habits, and the actor starred in films like "Boring Bories" and "Horizon". And then there was a tape "Two Life" with Nikolai Rybnikov and Vyacheslav Tikhonov, who narrowed about the soldiers who glorified the revolutionary front.
The last work of the actor on the eve of a decade of oblivion became artistic short films "First Ball" and "Diplomat". Due to the health problems caused by alcohol, Gourzo could not fully work, and every appearance in the frame required colossal labor.
Death
After the premiere of the film about the football players shot by Nicholas Rosantsev, Gourzo took part in the party and found himself in the hospital. Due to alcohol poisoning, a man began to experience heart problems in the first days after hospitalization did not notice familiar persons.At 45, Sergey hoped for the redemption of past sins in old age, but fate ordered differently. Death due to heart failure in September 1974 became the news that struck colleagues from the capital and other cities.
Despite the lack of official information on the death of the legend of world cinema, the fans of the actor of various nationalities arrived at the funeral to Leningrad. Applause over the grave located on the southern cemetery became recognition of the popularity of the owner of state awards.
Filmography
- 1948 - "Young Guard"
- 1950 - "far from Moscow"
- 1950 - "Bold People"
- 1952 - "Towards life"
- 1953 - "Job in the Mountains"
- 1953 - "Anxious youth"
- 1956 - "Restless Spring"
- 1957 - "Born Storm"
- 1959 - "Everything begins with the road"
- 1961 - "Horizon"
- 1961 - "Two Lives"
- 1961 - "Diplomat"
- 1962 - "First Ball"