Biography of dead actors

He was 89 years old. Alexander Shirvindt was called "king of phlegmatic humor." He was one of the most popular Soviet actors, although he played only one main role, and not in the most famous picture - the pretty fraudster Leonido Papagatto in the comedy “Million in the Mating Brain”. And also - Harris in the Three in the boat, probably, this role can also be called the main thing, Major Alfred in “Heavenly Swallows”, one of the friends of Zhenya Lukashin in the Irony of Fate, Director of Firellley in the “Princess of the Circus”, the restaurant pianist Shurik in the “Station for two”, the bureaucrat of Myasoedov in “Forgotten Melody for Flate”.

Sometimes appeared in the frame for several minutes, but any episode with his participation became a decoration of the film. There is the concept of “acting type”: the type is dictated by appearance and character, and few are able to transform into anyone. Shirvindt’s type was completely defined: even playing ordinary people, he remained with a imposing barin with high self -esteem, who moves slowly and weightily, he is confident and calmly calmly calm, in any situation he wants to say: he carries himself with emphasized dignity.

A smoking tube with which he often posed was very approaching the image of the artist. In the cult performance of the X on the stage of the Moscow Satire theater, they made up a magnificent duet with a rapid, sparkling Andrei Mironov: he - Figaro, Shirvindt - Count of Almaviv. In total, Alexander Shirvindt played 64 roles in the theater and 53 on the screen. He was born in the family of the violinist orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater, a friend of the famous Leonid Utesov.

Parents put their son to a music school, but when choosing a profession, he, in his own words, without hesitation chose the theater. He graduated from the Schukin Theater School, played at the Leninsky Komsomol Theater "Lenkom" and the theater on Malaya Bronnaya. In the year, he finally found himself in the Satire Theater. For about 20 years he was his artistic director, a quarter of a century - a professor of "pike".

Friends for the whole life are perhaps the greatest glory of Shirvindt brought a pop duet with Mikhail Derzhavin, in which he played a gloomy character, and his partner - expansive and verbose. The phrase “Shirvindt and Derzhavin” was at one time as stable as “Ilf and Petrov” or “Kartsev and Ilchenko”. Mikhail Derzhavin died: actor, comedian, a resilient is the concept of Stand-up Comedian-a comedian jokes on stage.

Shirvindt and Derzhavin could be called the SIT-Down Comedians, because they usually did it sitting. The actors were born in one maternity hospital in the center of Moscow - only Shirvindt was a little older. Then they remembered some family party all their lives, at which Shura was given a drink of champagne, but Misha was not yet. Together we studied at the Pike, served in the Satire Theater, in the X years they became famous in the world of the metropolitan bohemia as participants of the actor of the “Kaputniks” who flourished in the house, and in X they waged Sunday “Morning Mail” on television.

Their friendship lasted 72 years, until the death of Derzhavin. Roman Kartsev, an artist, familiar on the phrase “Yesterday, is five, but large” views and hobbies, Alexander Shirvindt, preferred fishing and was a fan of the Torpedo football club. He said that more exquisite delicacies loves sprats and melted cheese. Often playedovelasov played, but categorically refuted the amorous victories attributed to him and joked that he ruined the life of only one woman - his wife, architect Natalya Belousova, with whom he celebrated a diamond wedding in the year.

In an interview, Shirvindt complained simultaneously on a lack of freedom and permissiveness, he said that he was “interesting, but scary” to live in Russia, but he did not show political activity - he said, too ironically treated everything. Why are they needed? And then I understand that this is a crowd. Without a crowd, the theater is impossible! The theatricality of existence applies not only to the Duma, but of absolutely all the spheres of our life.

” Lack of urgent need, acute desire to do something. ” All the same, everyone smokes, drink and cheat. ” I never sign collective letters, because I think that you need to live individually, as you are. And you have to answer yourself. ” Satisfaction is not happiness. Happiness is an attribute of stupidity. A person who more or less thinks and worries something is not happy.

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