Sergei Yursky
Sergei Yurievich Yursky (Russian: Серге́й Ю́рьевич Ю́рский,[2] 16 March 1935 – 8 February 2019[3]) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and screenwriter. His best known film role is Ostap Bender in The Golden Calf (1968)[2]
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| Born | Sergei Yurievich Yursky 16 March 1935 Leningrad, Soviet Union |
| Died | 8 February 2019 (aged 83) |
| Occupation | actor, film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1957–2019 |
| Spouse(s) | Zinaida Sharko (m.1961 - d.1968) Natalya Tenyakova (m. 1970[1]) |
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Biography
Yursky was born in Leningrad, USSR, on 16 March 1935 in the family of Yuri Sergeyevich Yursky. He studied at the Faculty of Law of Zhdanov Leningrad State University.
In 1959 he graduated from Ostrovsky Leningrad Theatrical Institute, Leonid Makaryev's course.
From 1957 till 1979 he was one of the leading actors of Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater in Leningrad. The leading part in Wit Works Woe (1962) by Alexander Griboedov made him one of the most significant actors of his generation. His director's debut Moliere (also known as The Cabal of Hypocrites) by Mikhail Bulgakov in 1977 was highly acclaimed, but was not accepted by Georgy Tovstonogov, and led to Yursky's departure from the theatre.[4]
From 1979, he was an actor and director of Mossovet Theater in Moscow. Also worked as an actor and director in Moscow Art Theatre, as well as in Belgium, France and Japan.
Yursky performed one-man recitals of poetry and prose, touring widely with them in USSR, then Russia and beginning in the 1990s many countries with Russian-speaking population.[5]
Partial filmography
- 1960: Povest o molodozhyonakh
- 1961: Dostigaev i drugie
- 1961: Nowhere Man - Chudak
- 1962: Chyornaya chayka
- 1963: Krepostnaya aktrisa - knyaz Nikita Petrovich Baturin
- 1965: Time, Forward! - Margulies
- 1966: The Republic of ShKID - Vicknicksor
- 1968: The Little Golden Calf - Ostap Bender
- 1969: Interventsiya - Masks
- 1969: Pravdu! Nichego, krome pravdy! - Daniel Defoe (uncredited)
- 1969: King Stag - Tartaglia
- 1973: Slomannaya podkova - Jules Ardan
- 1975: Vybor tseli - Robert Oppenheimer
- 1976: The Darvish Detonates Paris - Musje Jordan
- 1977: Günlarin bir günü - (segment V odin prekrasnyj den')
- 1978: Bir ailalik bag evi
- 1979: The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (TV Mini-Series) - Gruzdev
- 1979: Little Tragedies (TV Mini-Series) - Improviser
- 1982: Padeniye Kondora
- 1983: Look for a Woman (TV Movie) - notary Rochet
- 1984: Vyigrysh odinokogo kommersanta
- 1985: Skazki starogo volshebnika - Keeper of fairy tales
- 1984: Love and Pigeons - Uncle Mitya
- 1986: Mglistye berega
- 1987: The End of Eternity - Computer Hobbe Finge
- 1988: Istoriya odnoy bilyardnoy komandi.
- 1990: Chernov/Chernov
- 1991: Au! Ograblenie poezda
- 1992: Ekstrasens - Master
- 1993: Pistolet s glushitelem - American Spy
- 1995: Zadoc et le bonheur - Sheremetieff
- 1995: Ispoved neznakomtsu - First inspector
- 2006: Master i Margarita - Berlioz (voice, uncredited)
- 2006: Osobennyy - (voice)
- 2007: Korolyov - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
- 2009: Poltory komnaty ili Sentimentalnoe puteshestvie na Rodinu - Father
Awards
- 1968: Honoured Artist of the RSFSR
- 1987: People's Artist of the RSFSR
- 1991: Kinotavr Grand Prize in feature films
- 2000: Pushkin Medal
- 2005: Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of IV degree
- 2010: Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of III degree
