Oleg Yankovsky

Oleg Yankovsky

Oleg Yankovsky, May 2007
Born Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky
(1944-02-23)23 February 1944
Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, USSR
Died 20 May 2009(2009-05-20) (aged 65)
Moscow, Russia[1]
Occupation Actor
Years active 1965–2009
Spouse(s) Lyudmila Zorina (1941)
Awards


Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky (Russian: Оле́г Ива́нович Янко́вский; February 23, 1944 – May 20, 2009) 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.

Life

Born into a noble family of Russian, Belarusian[2] [3] [4] and 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 World War II, namely The Shield and the Sword (Shchit i mech) (1968) by director Vladimir Basov and Two Comrades Were Serving (Sluzhili dva tovarishcha) (1968) by Yevgeni Karelov.

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).

In the early 1990s Oleg Yankovsky also played quite different roles in Georgi Daneliya’s tragic comedy The Passport (1990) and in Karen Shakhnazarov’s historical and psychological drama The Assassin of the Tsar (Tsareubiytsa) (1991). In 1991 he was the President of the Jury at the 17th Moscow International Film Festival.[5]

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 Paul (2004) and as Komarovsky in a TV adaptation of Doctor Zhivago (2006), directed by Oleg Menshikov.

The last film Yankovsky appeared in was Tsar, which was released in 2009 and demonstrated at the Cannes Film Festival on the 17th of May 2009, just three days before his death. Yankovsky played the sophisticated role of Metropolitan Philip in his last film.

Filmography

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]

Honours and awards

Soviet and Russian awards
Cinematic and public awards

References

  1. 1 2 Умер Олег Янковский (in Russian). NEWSru.com. May 20, 2009. Retrieved May 20, 2009.
  2. ↑ http://fishki.net/1859458-den-rozhdenija-olega-jankovskogo.html
  3. ↑ http://teleprogramma.pro/stars/85874/
  4. ↑ http://kstati.by/persons/abc/ya/54-ya/1756-2008-11-20-06-09-47.html
  5. ↑ "17th Moscow International Film Festival (1991)". MIFF. Retrieved 2013-03-02.

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