Oleg Yankovsky
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 Oleg Yankovsky, May 2007 |
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| Born | Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky February 23, 1944 Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, USSR |
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| Died | May 20, 2009 (aged 65) Moscow, Russia |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1965–2009 |
| Spouse(s) | Lyudmila Zorina (1962–2009) |
Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky (Russian: Олег Иванович Янковский) (February 23, 1944, Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, USSR – May 20, 2009, Moscow, Russia[1]) was a Soviet/Russian actor who has excelled in psychologically sophisticated roles of modern intellectuals. In 1991, he became, together with Alla Pugacheva, the last person to be named a People's Artist of the USSR.
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[edit] Life
Born into a noble family of Polish stock, son of Life-Guards Semenovsky regiment's Stabskapitän, Oleg Yankovsky formed an ambition to emulate his brother Rostislav and joined the Saratov Drama Theatre in 1965. His film career was launched two years later, when he was cast in two movies about the World War II.
During his remarkably prolific screen career, Yankovsky appeared in many film adaptations of Russian classics, notably My Sweet and Tender Beast (1977) and The Kreutzer Sonata (1987). A leading actor of Mark Zakharov's Lenkom Theatre since 1975, he starred in the TV versions of the theatre's productions, An Ordinary Miracle (1978) and The Very Same Munchhausen (1979) being the most notable. For his role in Roman Balayan's Flights in Dreams and Reality (1984) Yankovsky was awarded the USSR State Prize. He has been better known abroad for his parts in Tarkovsky's movies The Mirror (as the father) and Nostalghia (in the main role).
Starting in 1993, Yankovsky ran the Kinotavr Film Festival in Sochi. He continued to receive awards for his work with several Nika Awards from the Russian Film Academy for his directorial debut Come Look At Me (2001) and Valery Todorovsky's Lyubovnik (2002). He appeared as Count Pahlen in Poor, Poor Pavel (2004) and as Komarovsky in a TV adaptation of Doctor Zhivago (2006), directed by Aleksandr Proshkin.
The last film Yankovsky appeared in was Tsar, which was released in 2009.
[edit] Filmography
- Two Comrades Were Serving (1968) as Andrei Nekrasov
- The Mirror (1975) as the father
- My Sweet and Tender Beast (1977)
- An Ordinary Miracle (1978) as The Wizard
- The Very Same Munchhausen (1979) as Baron Munchausen
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Stapleton
- Flights in Dreams and Reality (1984)
- The Kreutzer Sonata (1987)
- Nostalghia (1983) as Andrei Gorchakov
- Come Look At Me (2001)
- Lyubovnik (2002)
- Poor, Poor Pavel (2004) as Count Pahlen
- Doctor Zhivago (2006) as Komarovsky
[edit] Death
On May 20, 2009 Yankovsky died from pancreatic cancer in Moscow, aged 65. A civil funeral took place at Lenkom theater. His burial was held on May 22, 2009, at Novodevichy Cemetery in presence of his close relatives only.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Умер Олег Янковский" (in Russian). NEWSru.com. May 20, 2009. http://txt.newsru.com/cinema/20may2009/oleg.html. Retrieved on May 20, 2009.
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- Oleg Yankovsky at the Internet Movie Database
- Obituary by the Associated Press on Legacy.com
