Dead stars: 15 Russian film and theater actors whom the world said goodbye to in 2020

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The world suffers irreparable human losses every year. However, 2020 will forever go down in history not only with its crises, global pandemics, but also with a large number of losses in the acting environment. Today I would like to remember stars of national cinema and theater, which died in 2020, whose names are inscribed in capital letters in the history of the country. As long as we are alive, the memory of those who delighted us with their magnificent acting in the cinema and on the stage will be alive in our hearts.

Inna Vladimirovna Makarova

Inna Makarova - Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR (1985), winner of the Stalin Prize of the first degree. Inna Vladimirovna was born on July 28, 1926 in Taiga (now the Kemerovo region) - she died at the age of 94 - on March 25, 2020 in Moscow after a serious illness.

The filmography of the actress is more than 50 films. However, three of them - the most famous, included in the treasury of Russian cinema, made her the star of the blue screens - these are "Young Guard", "Height" and "Girls". Inna Makarova's film debut took place in 1945 in the film It Was in Donbass, where she starred as a partisan, and the actress's last film work was The Secret of the Snow Queen (2015), where Inna Vladimirovna played the Fairy of Time.

You can read about the formation of an actress, about the most iconic roles and vicissitudes of her life in Post memory of Inna Makarova.

Evgeniya Vladimirovna Uralova

Evgenia Uralova - Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1994). Evgenia Vladimirovna was born on June 19, 1940 in Leningrad - she died at the age of 80 - on April 17, 2020 in Israel from a long illness. The ex-wife of actor and director Vsevolod Shilovsky and bard Yuri Vizbor.

The filmography of the actress is about 40 films. She made her debut in 1959 in the tape - "A Tale of the Newlyweds", the last role - "Rita" (2010). The most significant works, loved by the audience - "July rain" (1966), "Sevastopol" (1970), "Circle" (1972), "Waiting for a miracle" (1975), "Aty-bats, soldiers were walking" (1976), TV series "Children of the Arbat" (2004).

Tatiana Alekseevna Parkina

Tatyana Parkina is a Soviet and Russian actress and singer. Tatyana Alekseevna was born on April 13, 1952 in Riga - she died at the age of 68, on May 6, 2020 after a serious long illness in Moscow. In the last few years of her life, the actress was diagnosed with oncology.

The filmography of the actress contains about two dozen films. Fame was brought to her by Boris Durov's painting "I Can't Say Goodbye", released in 1982, in which the actress played the role of Martha. Among other serials and films with her participation - "The Envy of the Gods", "Red and Black", "Shoemaker", "Captain of the Pilgrim", "Applause, Applause …". In addition to her acting talent, Tatyana Alekseevna had strong vocals. Even in graduation performances at VGIK, she performed romances, and in the intervals between filming she toured the country with the Moscow Association of Musical Ensembles.

However, unfortunately, the actress ended her film career quite early. Why this happened, read in our publication: Unfinished romance with the cinema of Tatiana Parkina.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Kokshenov

Mikhail Kokshenov - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, film director, People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2002). Mikhail Mikhailovich was born on September 16, 1936 in Moscow - he died at the age of 84 - on June 5, 2020 in Moscow. The actor was treated for a long time in a rehabilitation center in the Moscow region after suffering a stroke in 2017.

The actor's filmography includes more than 130 roles in films and serials, a dozen roles in "Yeralash". Mikhail Kokshenov is also known as a director. On account of his 15 films, mainly of the comedy genre, as well as seven films filmed according to his scripts by other directors.

He made his film debut in 1957 in the film "Height". He is well known to the audience for his roles in the films "Shirley-Myrli", "It Can't Be!", "Sportloto-82", "The Most Charming and Attractive". How joker and heartthrob Mikhail Kokshenov became the most popular of Russian actors - read in our publication.

Victor Alekseevich Proskurin

Viktor Proskurin - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1995). Viktor Alekseevich was born on February 8, 1952 in Atbasar, Akmola region (Kazakhstan) - died at the age of 68 - June 30, 2020.

On May 25, the actor was hospitalized in a Moscow clinic with suspected bronchopneumonia. For more than a month, doctors fought for the life of Viktor Alekseevich. The cause of death was an attack of suffocation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It should be remembered that a few years before this, the actor had managed to defeat the oncological disease. After a long break, when Viktor Proskurin reappeared on the blue screens, few people recognized him. He has changed a lot in appearance and weighed only 42 kilograms.

The actor's filmography is about 140 film projects and 20 roles on the stage. The actor made his debut in the film "Eagles of Chapaya" (1968), playing Vitka, the last role - "Black Sea" (2020) - Boris Viktorovich Panin, professor.

Viktor Proskurin is known for his roles in such legendary films as "Cruel Romance", "War-Field Romance", "Marry a Captain", "Big Break", "Belorussky Station" and others. In 2017, the actor starred in the Russian historical fantasy Dzhanik Fayziev The Legend of Kolovrat.

Viktor Proskurin was an extraordinary person, not used to retreating. Therefore, there were legends about his difficult character in the acting environment.

Nikolay Nikolaevich Gubenko

Nikolai Gubenko - Soviet theater and film actor, film director, screenwriter, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1985). Nikolai Nikolaevich was also a statesman and political figure: he was the last Minister of Culture of the USSR (1989-1991), a deputy of the State Duma of the II-III convocation. Nikolai Gubenko was born on August 17, 1941 in Odessa - he died one day before his 79th birthday, on August 16, 2020 in Moscow. In the spring, the actor was hospitalized with suspected coronavirus in one of the Moscow clinics. Doctors did everything possible to put Nikolai Gubenko on his feet, but his pneumonia worsened, and later his condition worsened altogether.

At one time, Nikolai Nikolaevich was a brilliant theater artist, the best on Taganka. All the main roles were his. But he himself wanted to be the director of his own destiny, so he founded in 1992 the theater "Commonwealth of Taganka Actors", the permanent artistic director of which he was until the end of his days.

The actor became famous for his roles in cinema, in particular in the films They Fought for the Motherland and The Noble Nest. His filmography includes 20 films, 7 directorial films, 6 scenarios. The artist had a well-delivered voice and wonderful vocals. It was in his voice that the actors spoke and sang in some of the films he shot.

Vladimir Alekseevich Andreev

Vladimir Andreev - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theater director and teacher, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1963), People's Artist of the RSFSR (1972) and the USSR (1985). Vladimir Alekseevich was born on August 27, 1930 in Moscow - he died at his dacha - on August 29, 2020, barely celebrating his 90th birthday.

From 2012 until the end of his life, Vladimir Andreev was the president of the Moscow Drama Theater named after I. M. N. Ermolova, to whom he devoted his whole life. On the stage of this theater as an actor, he played up to fifty roles and created almost the same number of productions as a director. Andreev also worked at the Maly Theater. There were also foreign productions on his account, in particular in Germany.

The viewers also knew and loved Vladimir Alekseevich. The artist made his debut in the tape - "True Friends" (1954), the last role of the actor - in the sports dramatic feature film directed by Vasily Chiginsky "Lev Yashin. The goalkeeper of my dreams" (2019). The artist's filmography includes about 50 films. He also has almost 20 films on his account as a director.

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Boris Vladimirovich Klyuev

Boris Klyuev - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, teacher, professor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2002). Boris Vladimirovich was born on July 13, 1944 in Moscow - he died at the age of 77 - on September 1, 2020 in Moscow from cancer.

Boris Klyuev was one of the leading actors of the State Academic Maly Theater, in which he played more than 70 roles throughout his creative career. The actor is also known to a wide range of TV viewers, whose filmography includes more than 120 films and TV series. He made his debut in 1968 in the film - "The End of Saturn", one of his last bright roles - pensioner Nikolai Petrovich in the comedy series "The Voronins". Popularity at one time brought the actor to the actor the role of a spy Trianon in the movie "TASS is authorized to declare …".

10 facts about the star of the series "Voronin", unknown to a wide range of viewers in Post memory of Boris Klyuev.

Irina Viktorovna Pechernikova

Irina Pechernikova - Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1988). Irina Viktorovna was born on September 2, 1945 in Grozny - she died one day before her 75th birthday - September 1, 2020 in Moscow.

She made her film debut in the 1967 opera The Stone Guest. She is best known for her role as a school teacher in the film "We'll Live Until Monday." She starred in the films "Cities and Years", "Discovery", "Two Captains", "Birds of Our Hopes" and others. In the 1990s, she left the cinema, and 20 years later she resumed her creative activity. Irina Pechernikova actively began to participate in various film projects and on television, including a participant in the TV show "Formula of Beauty".

About the difficult life of a beautiful actress, our publication Moments of happiness Irina Pechernikova: How an actress learned not to bend under the blows of fate

Irina Konstantinovna Skobtseva

Irina Skobtseva is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR. Irina Konstantinovna was born on August 22, 1927 in Tula - she died at the age of 94 - October 20, 2020 in Moscow. The day of her death mysteriously coincided with the death of her husband Sergei Bondarchuk, an outstanding actor and director, who passed away on October 20, 1994 at the age of 74.

The debut of the actress took place in 1955 as Desdemona in the film Othello by Sergei Yutkevich. This role earned Irina Skobtseva the title of "Miss Charm of the Cannes Film Festival". The actress is also known for her roles in the films I Walk Through Moscow, War and Peace, Zigzag of Fortune, Mary Poppins, Goodbye!

10 best roles of Irina Skobtseva in Post in memory of the wife of the legendary director Bondarchuk and a talented actress

Armen B. Dzhigarkhanyan

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theater teacher, theater director, People's Artist of the USSR (1985). Born Armen Borisovich on October 3, 1935 in Yerevan - he died at the age of 86 - November 14, 2020 in Moscow.

In April 2018, Dzhigarkhanyan was hospitalized with a heart attack and was in a coma for some time. Having recovered, he returned to rehearsals in the theater. However, the actor's health deteriorated significantly and Armen Borisovich was hospitalized several times with a hypertensive crisis and neuralgia. The cause of death was cardiac arrest due to kidney disease and edema of the body against the background of other chronic diseases.

Since 1996, he has been President and Artistic Director of the Moscow Drama Theater. The creative piggy bank of the great actor has a total of more than 250 roles in theater and cinema. Actor and director Armen Dzhigarkhanyan is widely known to the public for such films as "Hello, I am your aunt!", "The meeting place cannot be changed", "Dog in the manger", "Shirley-Myrli".

Why Armen Dzhigarkhanyan called himself a "lone wolf" and other little-known facts about the legendary actor- in our publication.

Nina Georgievna Ivanova

Nina Ivanova is a Soviet actress and director. Nina Georgievna was born on January 6, 1934 in Moscow - she died at the age of 87 on December 1, 2020 from acute heart failure.

Known to a wide audience for the role of teacher Tatyana Sergeevna in the film "Spring on Zarechnaya Street". At the age of 10, she made her film debut, starring in the movie - "Once there was a girl." In addition, the actress has appeared in such films as "Easy Life", "Such a Guy Lives", "Kievite", "Heirs" and "Love Must Be Treasured".

For some time she worked at the Film Studio. M. Gorky as the second director. Then she left the profession, and after returning in the mid-90s as a director she shot several issues of the Yeralash newsreel. Later she worked as a nurse in a Moscow hospital.

Why it so happened that the actress decided to put an end to her film career, read our publication: The moment of glory and the years of oblivion of Nina Ivanova: Why did the star of the film "Spring on Zarechnaya Street" disappear from the screens.

Boris Grigorievich Plotnikov

Boris Plotnikov - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1998). Boris Grigorievich was born on April 2, 1949 in Nevyansk, Sverdlovsk Region - he died at the age of 72 - December 2, 2020 in Moscow from pneumonia caused by coronavirus infection. I have been on a ventilator for the last week.

The actor's filmography includes more than 70 film projects. Boris Plotnikov is known to the viewer for his films - "Heart of a Dog", "Ascent", "Emelyan Pugachev", "Forest", "Cold Summer of the Fifty-third", "Dulcinea Tobosskaya", "Shadow Boxing", and also starred in the TV series "Godunov "And" Wings of the Empire ". He worked at the Moscow Theater of Satire, the Theater of the Russian Army and the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. He has more than 30 theatrical roles on his account.

About an actor who has never been wasted on trifles: Post in memory of Boris Plotnikov.

Nikolay Nikolaevich Ivanov

Nikolai Ivanov - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of Russia (1992), laureate of the USSR State Prize. Nikolai Nikolaevich was born on January 22, 1943 in Tikhvin - he died at the age of 78 - on December 11, 2020 in Moscow from heart failure.

The actor's filmography is about 35 film projects. Nikolai Ivanov, who starred in the popular serial film "Eternal Call", is known to a wide circle of viewers for films - "Descended from Heaven", "Red Tent", "On Love", "Love a Man", "Grasshopper", "Order: Fire Is Not to open”,“Gum-Gam”,“Battle for Moscow”. Also on account of the actor 15 roles in theatrical productions, including television.

Valentin Iosifovich Gaft

Valentin Gaft - Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theater director, poet and writer, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1984). Valentin Iosifovich was born on September 2, 1935 in Moscow - he died at the 86th year of life - December 12, 2020 in Moscow from a stroke.

The actor's filmography includes more than 150 film projects, among which the most famous are "Seventeen Moments of Spring", "Hello, I am your aunt!" And also the actor has more than 50 roles in theatrical productions. During his creative career, Valentin Gaft appeared on the stage of many theaters, namely the Mossovet Theater, Sovremennik, Satire Theater and Lenkom.

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