The role of the artist is often coming against the inner world. So, the creative destiny of Alexei Smirnov was filled with comedy roles, and the drama gift was left not in demand. To the 100-year anniversary of the actor - the material 24cm about the life of a comedian with a tragic biography.
There was such a guy
Alexey Smirnov was born on February 28, 1920 in the Yaroslavl province. After 6 years, the family moved to Leningrad. In the late 30s he entered the theater studio at the Leningrad Theater of the Music Comedy.
In the 1940th debut on stage. A girl appeared. Smirnov sang her serenada and stolen flowers for lover with flower beds. Young bought rings and filed an application to the registry office.
But the wedding did not take place. The war began.
There is always a place in life in life.
The commander of the Fire Artillery Battery Alexei Smirnov passed the floor of Europe. And in minutes, silence was led by homemade. In the battles for Oder, he was injured and after a severe contusion of the Communications. Later, the award did not advertise and the military past did not brave.
After the war
After the injury, Smirnov could not be children. Having experienced a personal drama, he declared a girl who waited that they would break up. The reason for this act bride will learn a few years later.In 1946, he returned to the scene of the theater of Muzkomediya, by performing roles in the crowd. Salary lacked, my mother was sick. Separate housing was the former front line not allocated.
The turning point in the creative biography was 1952, when Smirnov in Lengosstrade began to give the role of good-natured healthy. The film driver began only at 36 years old, with the Military Drama "Baltic Glory", but also there was a comedy episode.
At the peak of glory
In the 60s followed the proposal for the execution of comical characters. Folk love Smirnov brought a role in the comedy Gaidai. Phrases Fedi from "Operations" s "and other adventures of Shurik" melted on quotes.
Acquaintance on the filming of the film "Bunny" with actor and director Leonid Bykov turned into friendship. Later, the bulls offered Smirnov role in the film.
The episode at the grave of the pilots from the film "Only the" old men "go into battle." He entered the story as the most dramatic, emphasizing the diverseness of the actor. In 1976, Alexey Makarovich Smirnov assigned the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Personal life
After breaking with the bride, the relationship with the actors did not make up. He was complex due to appearance and was concerned about the inability to have children. Being lonely, Alexey Makarovich was carried away by collecting: collected books, kept in a dried or declared form of various insects and cut out notes about himself from newspapers and magazines.In dreams about the child, Smirnov mastered wooden toys and attributed them to the boarding school for children with disabilities. At the same time, he tried to adopt a boy with congenital heart disease, but a lonely man chose to refuse.
Lit quiet
In 1979, Alexei Makarovich, Leonid Bykov died, died. According to some sources, after that, Smirnov began to abuse alcohol, which undermined his health. The actor fell into the hospital with a heart attack.
On May 7, 1979, the actor was prepared for discharge, but he never got home on that day. There are several versions of the death of the star at once: some say that Smirnov became bad after the memories of the death of a friend during a banquet on the occasion of discharge, others - that the state of the actor worsened at home, and he again fell into the hospital. Alexei Makarovich's attending doctor noted that the fate for him was the bottle of alcohol, which he secretly drank from the doctors on the day of statement. Smirnov died of heartbroken.