Kanevsky Leonid Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. He gained all -Union popularity after roles in the film "Diamond Hand" and the television series "The investigation is conducted by experts", playing Major Tomina. In the year, he became the host of the documentary program “The investigation ...” on the NTV channel. His father was a professional fruit and technologist, adored his work, “by eye” could determine the variety of any apple.

Mother in her youth studied at the conservatory, then devoted herself to raising children: Leonid and the eldest son of Alexander. Subsequently, she received an economic education and worked in the Ministry of Housing Construction of Kyiv. Leonid Kanevsky in his youth is the only member of the family related to art is the second cousin Anatoly Kanevsky, the actor of the Ivan Franco Theater.

Actor Anatoly Kanevsky, a relative of Leonid, the Kanevsky family occupied two rooms in a communal apartment. When Little Lenya played football with his friends, the ball sometimes flew over the fence. The guards always returned him, but sometimes pierced. Brother Leonid Kanevsky Alexander-a satirist writer in the year, a school friend led Leonid to occupy a drama circle in the club of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the boy immediately realized that he wanted to become an artist.

The father wanted him to continue the family business and would not approve of his desire, considering the desire of his son the Blizh - like how all the Soviet boys dreamed of being a pilot or astronaut. The elder brother Alexander, along with the cousin, was sometimes struck by Leonid. When the boy grew up, he began to engage in struggle, trying to resemble his father - a powerful, stately man.

His coach was the hero of the front Konstantin Kolsky, who trained a soldier. In the end, Roman told Alexander: "The last time I will beat him, and then we won’t, because it is already dangerous." In the future, Leonid tried to keep himself in shape, since, in his opinion, this is one of the duties of the artist. Youth in the year Leonid Kanevsky went to Moscow to enter the theater university.

Together with him, the mother went to the reception exams. Unlike her father, she always believed in her son and supported him. The actor admitted that it was the support of his mother that helped him realize his dream. At first, Kanevsky tried to enter the Moscow Art Theater, but Pavel Massalsky directly told him at the selection committee that they did not need actors with such a texture.

The same story repeated at the Shchepkinsky School. But he managed to become a student of the Schukin school. Upon admission, he read a monologue of the mayor from the “Examiner”, because he believed that with his face in the theater they would never let this role play. He was accepted at the course of Vera Konstantinovna Lvova. Leonid disappeared into the school for days, he liked all the objects: art history, dance, vocals, a foreign theater.

They even studied fencing. In the Moscow communal apartment on Gogolevsky Boulevard, where the young actor rented a corner, 50 people were located in 11 rooms, it was very close to live. The beginning of the acting career Leonid Kanevsky graduated from the Schukin school in the year. He was offered to work in the theater. Vakhtangov, but warned that there were no serious roles for him yet.

Kanevsky began working at the Moscow Theater named after the Lenin Komsomol at the invitation of its director. Under his leadership, Kanevsky played in Chekhov's “Seagull”, in the plays of Edward Radzinsky “Pages of Love” and “Film Films ...”. Efros played not just a big, but the main role in my life. In the cinema, Kanevsky got episodes, mainly a negative nature: drunkards, gangsters, smugglers.

His debut on the screen took place in the film “Forty minutes before Dawn” Kanevsky played the owner of the Selpo in the Belarusian village. Leonid Semenovich was never offended by the directors for being given small roles, because there were many suggestions. In the year, Anatoly Efros went to the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya and took away 11 actors with him, and Kanevsky also hit them.

He was able to play in the “Examiner”, in “Romeo and Juliet” he got the role of Signor Capuletti’s servant, and Capulet himself was played by the brilliant Leonid of Armor. In this theater, Kanevsky served up to a year. His character, a former art critic, in one of the scenes discussed Leonard da Vinci and Mona Lisa's smile. All -Union popularity Leonid Semenovich literally woke up famous in the year, after the comedy screens of Leonid Gaidai “Diamond hand”.

He got a small role of one of the smugglers who were waiting at the pharmacy Gesh Kozodoev in order to wrap a gypsum with diamonds into his hands. At the site of the filming of the "Diamond hand" in Baku, the restaurant "Damn the shoot" was opened. In the year, the actor received a large and positive role in Major Alexander Tomin in the detective television series “The investigation is conducted by experts”, taken based on real crimes.

The scriptwriters of the project, Alexander and Olga Lavrov, were investigators in the past. In the subjects, the emphasis was not on crimes, but on the motives of criminals and their psychology. Actors, including Kanevsky, along with the detectives of Petrovka, 38 went to searches, sat on interrogations.During the filming, Tomin made a serious career, rising from captain to Colonel.

Major Tomin is a song of the inspector in addition to fame, this series brought Kanevsky and troubles. When he was at a creative meeting in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a thief was caught in his hotel room. He said that he would become a “star” in the criminal world if he had robbed one of the “experts”. Leonid Kanevsky in the role of Major Tomin, in addition, because of the role of Kanevsky, he lost a favorable role in the film “Dog on the Shen”, the directors considered that the performer of the role of Major Tomin is not worth playing the servant.

Director Jan Frida on the Khudovite was “not recommended” to shoot Kanevsky. The role was eventually received by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. But Georgy Jungwald-Khilkevich in a similar situation insisted that Bonasie in the “Three Musketeers” should play Leonid Semenovich. Leonid Kanevsky in the film “Three Musketeers” in the eighties “Experts” no longer had such success.

Many other criminal films and series appeared, which depicted reality much darker. Kanevsky began to work for a children's audience. In the year, he voiced Mr. Fix in the dubbed version of the Australian animated series “Around the World in 80 days”, a little later starred in the films “Mary Poppins, Goodbye” and “Peppy Long -Chops”. The frame from the film "Peppy of the Long Herders" in years in an integral attribute of the image of Leonid Kanevsky became a mustache.

Before that, he wore the bacenbard, but after the play “Veselchaki”, where he got the role of the artist Variet, clung to the mustache of his soul. Once, for a role, he shaved them, thereby causing an attack of laughter in his daughter. Leonid offended and even left the house for a couple of hours. Then he cooled down, but the mustache no longer shaved. In the year, he played the operator in the multi -part film by Konstantin Khudyakov, "The Cellress".

The main roles were played by Yuri Yakovlev and Leonid Filatov. Kanevsky admitted that working with such actors was a great pleasure. Unfortunately, the picture was not very successful. The move to Israel in the invitation of director Yevgeny Arya Kanevsky emigrated to Israel, where he created the Russian -speaking theater "Gesher" with him. First, together with Mikhail Kazakov and Valentin Nikulin, they traveled the whole country with tour, and a full house was waiting for them everywhere.

However, the first six months were difficult. There were problems with salaries, moreover, it turned out that not all viewers understand Russian. The actors began to teach Hebrew, and by the end of the year they played Dostoevsky’s “idiot” in two languages. When the performances at the Moscow Art Theater were played by Oleg Tabakov, the dealers sold tickets for a double price, but the hall was always full.

Leonid Kanevsky in Baku: in and however, not everyone enjoyed the current situation. For example, Kirill Safonov, who began to work at the Gesher in the year, did not take root there. There were few roles, and in his free time he had to earn extra money by a taxi driver and a waiter. Already in Safonov hastened to return to Russia. The actor emphasizes that he did not emigrate to Israel, but lived in two countries, never tearing off his connections with Russia.

Although, of course, the contrast of a safe Tel Aviv with a criminal situation in Moscow X at one time struck him. The new roles in Leonid Kanevsky were happy to accept Vladimir Khotinenko’s proposal to revive the series “The investigation is conducted by experts”. Only 4 episodes were shot, since the continuation went unnoticed.

Many law enforcement officers came to the profession, inspired by Tomin. In the year, he became the host of a series of documentary films “The investigation ...” on NTV. Kanevsky talked about crimes committed in the USSR for a year. Also, a lot of attention in the project was paid to the everyday life and morals of Soviet citizens, their psychology and social position.

Now Leonid Kanevsky is conducting the program “The investigation was conducted by Leonid Semenovich personally edited all scenarios. Most of all, he liked to talk about talented fraudsters and scammers who became criminals because of personal and social failures. The heroes of the program are dead, executed, falling under the rink of time. I have the right to talk about them now, explaining to people that this time was so stuck, forced to get on this road.

I am their lawyer. Many are pretty to me. So called the maniac-star Fedor Kozlov, who operated in Novosibirsk in the year. Kozlov made 10 attacks on girls, 5 of them killed.