Livanov actor biography

Creative people surrounded the boy from childhood: the poet Boris Pasternak, film director Alexander Dovzhenko, painter Peter Konchalovsky, actors Mikhail Tarkhanov and Vasily Kachalov were included in the circle of friends of the family. According to the family legend, Vasily of the future people's artist was named precisely in honor of Kachalov. Livanov told about the choice of the profession like this: “My grandfather and father are actors.

Dad was afraid that I would be engaged in acting by inertia. Therefore, he dragged into painting, to drawing. I graduated from the Moscow secondary art school, passed the exam at the Surikov Institute and ... I realized that I would not live without the profession of the actor. ” In the year, Vasily Livanov entered the Schukin Theater School. And they arranged an unthinkable listening to me, ”the actor recalled.

Listening was successful, and the father reconciled with the choice of his son. Vakhtangov, but there he lingered for a short while: a year later he decided that he saw himself only the actor of the cinema, and left the theatrical stages forever. The choice turned out to be true: During his creative career, Vasily Livanov starred in 37 films, playing the most diverse roles: from the poet to the geologist, from Nicholas I to Felix Dzerzhinsky, from the journalist to Don Quixote, from the detective to the doctor of the psychiatric clinic.

Livanov received the first noticeable role in the film “Unpertured Letter”, which was released in the year. On this shooting, the young actor "earned" his famous voice. But director Mikhail Kalatozov invited us to voice winter scenes right on the street. In the degree frost! In the end, nothing came of this: the strongest wind, the microphone boom-boom-boom, and although we screamed from the heart, turned out to be marriage.

And I tore my voice. Lost at all. Then he recovered and became so creaky, ”the actor said later. Further there were roles in the films “Resurrection”, “Blind musician”, “Two lives” ... According to Livanov himself, after the “blind musician” he began to fill up with letters of fans, and the film “Colleagues” in the year made the young actor a star. Nevertheless, the role of Sherlock Holmes in the cycle of television films “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor of Watson” became a kind of business card of the actor.

Soviet and Russian spectators, according to surveys, consider Vasily Livanov “reference Sherlock”. The glory of the television movie back in the days of the USSR went beyond the country, and in the year for this outstanding role Livanov was awarded the honorary membership of the Order of the British Empire. As part of the training, he wrote three tales, they were published by the Literary Gazeta, and then Livanov called the Soyuzmultfilm and offered to write a script and manage the staging of the cartoon.

In his creative baggage - one and a half dozen cartoons, including “Bremen musicians”, “in the wake of Bremen musicians”, “Santa Claus and Summer”. The actor was a lot of engaged not only in directing, but also by voiceing of cartoons. It was from him that Carlson's voice received in “Baby and Carlson”, a crocodile Gene in “Cheburashka”, a black cat in a “Kitten named Gav”, a boaver in “38 Pargians”, Gromozeca in the “Secret of the Third Planet” and dozens of other popular cartoon characters.

In parallel with the work of films and cartoons, Vasily Livanov continued to write fairy tales, stories, stories and essays. In the year, a three -volume edition of his works was published, in - an author’s two -volume, which, in addition to artistic prose, also included the memories of the artist. He told about his first wife Alina Engelhardt: “My first love was youthful - at 17 years old.

She was older, but I was madly in love. She was the daughter of an academician, and I am a Moscow Shpan. Young lady and bully, in a word. She married another, gave birth to two children. And seven years later she married me ... It was my crazy attempt to return my novel yesterday, but it turned out that I had stepped on a rake. I didn’t step on the rake anymore ...

” Livanov lived with his first wife for about 10 years, daughter Anastasia was born in marriage. In the year, Vasily Livanov married for the second time, Elena Balabanova, an artist-master of animated puppet films, became the chosen one. This union has been going on for more than 50 years. She is a real talent, to her opinion, even critical, I listen all my life.

The first marriage is rarely successful ... It is based on love, not on love. My parents and my second marriage became happy. ” In the second marriage, the actor had two sons: Boris and Nikolai.

The artist complained about weakness, shortness of breath and speech disorders. According to the SHOT telegram channel, it was the third hospitalization for a year. During the examination, a stroke was diagnosed, some media also reported on an oncological disease detected by the actor. Vasily Borisovich continues to undergo treatment at home, with the family.