Favorite actors who passed away at the peak of fame

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

These actors were adored by the public, they were treated kindly by the directors, and had all-Union recognition. But for such popularity, they had to pay a dear price. In their prime and at the height of their fame, these artists suddenly passed away.

Vladislav Dvorzhetsky

Vladislav Dvorzhetsky became known to the general public after the release of the film "Running" in 1971, based on the work of the same name by Mikhail Bulgakov. Then he was invited to his film "Solaris" by Andrei Tarkovsky. So Dvorzhetsky's old dream came true: to star in this eminent director.

Proposals for new roles fell on the actor like a cornucopia. Vladislav Vaclavich worked with incredible dedication, as if he was afraid of not being in time. Health problems were not long in coming. In 1976, during the filming in the Crimea, the actor became ill. He was taken to the Livadia hospital, where he was informed that over the past month, Dvorzhetsky had suffered as many as two heart attacks. The actor went out, but, despite the warnings of the doctors, he plunged into work with the same dedication.

The last film by Vladislav Dvorzhetsky was "Classmates", filmed in 1977. While working on it, the actor fell ill with a severe form of flu, but continued to appear on the set. Dvorzhetsky died a year later. The cause was acute heart failure. The illustrious actor was only 39 years old.

Talgat Nigmatulin

Talgat Nigmatulin always dreamed of connecting his life with cinema. He wanted to make films, but he was destined to become an actor. Charisma and pronounced oriental features of the face secured the role of a negative hero for him. The first roles of the actor were insignificant. All-Union fame brought him participation in the action film "Pirates of the XX century". Talgat was immediately dubbed the Soviet Bruce Lee.

Despite his great popularity, success and demand in the professional field, Talgat Nigmatulin in 1983 joined the Fourth Way sect, in which they preached a mixture of Zen Buddhism and esotericism. Relatives and friends could not understand what prompted the actor to turn to the sectarians.

In 1985, a split occurred in the sect. Spiritual leader Abai ordered Talgat to "knock out" money from those who decided to leave. He refused. On the night of February 10-11, 1985, at an apartment in Vilnius, five sectarians beat Talgat Nigmatulin to death. The actor and karateka did not even resist. He passed away at the age of 35.

Andrey Mironov

Popularity to Andrey Mironov came after the first roles. The parents believed that their son would become a diplomat or translator, but fate decreed otherwise. To their great surprise, the son went to enter the Shchukin school. Intending to realize himself in the acting field, Andrei even changed his father's surname Menaker to his mother's - Mironov.

For a quarter of a century, the actor worked at the Moscow Theater of Satire. There was a time when tickets for performances with his participation in the theater were sold out immediately. The audience went specially "to Mironov".

The actor himself worked with incredible dedication. Performances in the theater, filming in films, endless tours - all this exhausted the actor, but he did not show it. Few people knew that Mironov had a congenital aneurysm of the cerebral vessels. With such a diagnosis, emotional stress was strictly prohibited.

In 1987, during the play "Crazy Day, or The Marriage of Figaro" in Riga, the actor became ill. His friend and colleague Alexander Shirvindt recalled how Andrei Mironov began to sink down on the stage, losing consciousness. Shirvindt dragged him backstage. Mironov only managed to say: "Shura, my head hurts." A cerebral hemorrhage has occurred. For two days, doctors fought for the life of the actor, but to no avail. Andrei Mironov was only 46 years old.

Vladimir Vysotsky

Vladimir Vysotsky called the second most popular (after Yuri Gagarin) according to the results of the survey "Idols of the XX century", conducted in 2010. After leaving school, the future favorite of the public, at the insistence of his parents, went to the Civil Engineering Institute. But after a semester, he himself wrote a statement of expulsion, saying that he would prepare for admission to the theater department.

The hasty decision to leave the mechanical faculty turned out to be correct. Vladimir Vysotsky realized himself in theater, cinema, on stage. The personal life of the artist interested his fans no less than professional activities. It is known that Vysotsky smoked no less than a pack of cigarettes a day and was addicted to alcohol. From this, the actor had kidney failure and heart failure occurred.

The actor was taken out of his grave condition with drugs. Maybe the doctors themselves unwittingly showed the artist a way to get rid of alcohol addiction. In 1975, from single injections of morphine and amphetamine, Vysotsky switched to their regular use.

Attempts to cure him did not give results, because Vysotsky himself did not want to stop. To all the exhortations of his friends, he only replied that they did not understand anything, and drugs stimulate creativity.

Marina Vladi recalled that in 1980, doctors predicted that Vladimir Vysotsky would die soon from an overdose or from withdrawal symptoms. The death of the artist came during the Moscow Olympics. Doctors diagnosed acute myocardial infarction. In order not to spoil the festive atmosphere, the authorities decided not to advertise the death of Vladimir Vysotsky. However, the news spread by word of mouth very quickly. An unprecedented number of people came to say goodbye to the people's favorite. Some even climbed the rooftops to see the procession. Marina Vlady recalled: “I saw how princes and kings were buried, but I didn’t see anything like that!..”

After the sudden death of Vysotsky, his wife suddenly disappeared, and everyone gradually forgot about her. Meanwhile, life of Marina Vlady was full of serious trials.