Burkov actor biography personal

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. A rare case for that time: a popular favorite, which he became thanks to a brilliant roles in the cinema, in his youth was not accepted into any of the theater universities. He created unforgettable images on the stage and on the screen, it is enough to name the Guboshlet from Kalina Krasnaya, Alexander Kopytovsky from the drama “They fought for their homeland”, Misha from the Irony of Fate, or with a slight steam!

Fans with tenderness called him "the ironic Don Quixote of Soviet cinema." Ivan Grigoryevich was a worker at a machine -building plant in the Motovilikh area, then became the main mechanic. Maria Sergeevna was engaged in the economy and upbringing of her son. George was very attached to his mother all his life. Until the age of six, the boy was not much different from his peers, but once, traveling with his parents along the Volga on a ship, Little Zhora fell ill with a typhoid.

Doctors did several operations, but to no avail. The forecasts were the most deplorable. Maria Sergeevna took her son and began to treat him with folk remedies. I walked around all Perm healers, made infusions from their herbal gatherings. And miraculously the baby went recovering. George returned to ordinary life, went to school. But in the first years of study, the Great Patriotic War was on.

From the diaries of Burkov it became known that a hospital was organized at his school. He thought about the proximity of the war, watching from the window the tram on which the wounded was carried. In the hospital, he watched movies with friends, helped the fighters. Like other boys, Burkov played football, played sports. On holidays, the guys gathered at one of the friends, listened to the pavement.

Voices were unconsciously disgusted by an old apparatus: baritone, tenor, bass - sounded distorted, as if the voices of the liliputs. But this did not prevent the boys from enjoying the holiday. Especially Zhora loved to listen to songs about the sailor Zheleznyaka and “Moscow May”. In the early years, Georgy Burkov was not too serious about studying, but his parents, who had almost lost his only son, did not insist that he studied “excellent”.

He had one, but fiery passion - the boy read the book with binge. The peers called him a “walking encyclopedia” for a wide horizons and a lot of various knowledge that was not talked about at school. Relatives noted that from the school, Zhora wrote something all the time in a special notebook, even said once that he would probably become a writer. In the archive of Burkov, many sketches, stories and diary entries have been preserved.

Despite the literary gift, even during the war, George fell in love with the theater. He went to the performances that the troupe of the evacuated Leningrad theaters gave, and enthusiastically looked at the stage, imagining himself on it. He signed up in the amateur art circle, but this was not enough for him. He decided to study at the artist. Four attempts to enter the theater university ended in failure: the foster commissions noted initerly diction and refused Burkov.

The theater career in the year George entered the law faculty of Perm University, and at the same time he was engaged in the evening studio at the Perm Drama Theater. There he was noticed by the leadership of the Bereznikovsky drama theater, noting a strange feature-as soon as Burkov climbed the stage, he pronounced the text completely legibly, his tongue-tied tongue disappeared somewhere.

He was invited to the troupe, and then he moved to the Perm Theater, where he played Vladimir Mayakovsky with brilliance in the play “Blop”. The novice actor managed to work in Kemerovo, playing Yasha in the production of the Cherry Orchard. Once, the famous Moscow critic Olga Pyzhova, who remained completely delighted with the “bug” and Burkova’s game, arrived in Perm. She spoke about the original talented actor to Boris Lvov Anokhin, the artistic director of the Moscow Drama Theater named after George was already 32 years old, when the director invited him to Moscow to listen.

The artistic council approved his candidacy, Burkova was accepted into the troupe of the theater, gave a role in the upcoming premiere and a room in a hostel. The first role on the Moscow theater scrapers for Burkov was Ryaba from the production of Anna. The actor did not have a special education, but he re -read all the works of Konstantin Stanislavsky and Mikhail Chekhov.

Erudition and charm, natural talent and stage experience acquired in the province, soon made the leading actor of the theater out of George. He began to receive the main roles with which he brilliantly coped. Burkov perfectly got used to the image of Pope Princess, in addition, Poprishchina played in the “Notes of a Madman” on the stage of his native theater.

The inimitable was Burkov in the image of Albert Einstein in the same production of Nikolai Pogodin, and in the year his repertoire was replenished with the role of Apollo Murzavetsky in the play “Wolves and Sheep”. On the stage of the Moscow Drama Theater named after Pushkin, the actor played Belamota in the play “The Moon in the window”, and in the production “Ivan and Madonna” he was transformed into the main character.At the end of the X, Georgy Burkov left the stage and in the year headed the Culture Center named after Vasily Shukshin, dreaming of creating an acting school and his own theater with him, as they previously planned with Vasily Makarovich, his best friend.

Roles in the cinema of the big talent of Burkov were also manifested in cinema, although he rarely played the main characters. He was a brilliant actor of the episode, which was immediately remembered by the audience. For his life, Georgy Ivanovich starred in more than eighty paintings of various genres - comedies and dramas, detectives and social tragicomedies - the acting range of Georgy Ivanovich was inexhaustible.

In, immediately upon arrival in Moscow, he starred in the episodes of the paintings “Zosya” and “Khmyr” based on the story of Vasily Shukshin. His resident artist Petya was remembered by the audience as a cheerful balagur, not without a sense of justice. His hero treated his money easily and the bond winning offered to spend on an excursion to the Caucasus: “There will be something to remember!

Immediately after filming, the actor was offered cooperation with the satirical film magazine “Fitil”, on which he worked on a year, creating images of people from the people - electricians, sellers, patients of clinic, workers and employees. In addition, in the year, several more films were released with his participation: “Liberation” by the sergeant, “Our acquaintances” smugglers, “punisher” Nikos.

Next followed the shooting of the military painting "The case of wormwood." The protagonist, pilot Polynin, was played by Oleg Efremov, and his friend and commander of the air regiment Gritsko - Burkov. The audience also fell in love with the character Fedor Fedyaev from the comedy “The Old Woman-Robber”, it was from him that the phrase went to the people: “Nonsense.

Gangs of a bullet. " Frame from the film "Old Rightholders" Kinopoisk. Burkov and Shukshin became firmly made friends, understood each other at a glance. George admitted that a friend helped him grow spiritually, inspired him. Shukshin wrote the fairy tale “Up to the Third Roasters” specifically for Burkov - according to it, Georgy Ivanovich wanted to put his debut production as a theater director.

Phrases: “Rest on me. I never get drunk ”, and“ if not for me, you would have disappeared without me ”, which Misha says, a friend of Zhenya Lukashin in the film“ The Irony of Fate, or with a slight steam! His virtuoso game showed so reliably the hardships of war in the year that veterans who participated in the Battle of Stalingrad began to write letters to the actor.

Burkov also turned out to be touching and truthful, the role of Alexei Gagarin, the father of the first cosmonaut in the world, in the film “So the Legend began”, which tells about the childhood of Yuri Gagarin. The actor in the next masterpiece of Ryazanov “Service Roman” flickered and as always remembered. The impudent and impenetrable “inventory”-Zhora’s factory with their subordinate friends created a very colorful episode in the picture.

And when the words “I sold my homeland for the whole country! The social satire “garage” brilliantly opened the problematic issues of many groups of the country.

The company was compiled by Tatyana Vasilieva and Vladimir Zeldin. Then he played one of the central heroes in the film “On the Poor Hussar, Lit the Word”, after which he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. The complex psychological image of the investigator Boris Antonova Burkov created in the detective film “Profession - Investigator”. After that, he was invited to the main role of General Panfilov to the film-performance “Volokolamskoye Shosse”, in which a thoughtful and serious actor appeared before the viewers.

Frame from the film "Profession - Investigator" Source: Kinopoisk. In it, Burkova can hardly recognize in the image of the old man Varlaam - he got used to the image. In the year, the Baika melodrama was released on the screens, in which Georgy Ivanovich first tried strength as a director. He himself played the main character, taxidermist Zhora Soro -Russian, and other main characters were depicted on the screen Nina Usatova, Tatyana Udarova, Ivan Ryzhov.

The actor masterfully played another main role of the photojournalist “Uncle chlorine” in the delicate and touching picture “Two and One”. The last role in the cinema for Georgy Burkov was the image of the head of the criminal organization, the antique of Evgeny Ugunovkov in the criminal drama “The Murder of the Witness”, the personal life of George Burkov, according to the actor, created his first love, overtook him in the tenth grade, about which he made an entry in his diaries.

The girl was beautiful, with a slender figure and curly brown hair. Very Burkov liked the dimples on her puffy cheeks. He lay down in the bed in the bed in the evening, George thought for a long time about her, indulged in unrealistic fantasies. In all his fantasies, he acted as a noble knight or famous artist, and his lover would be enthusiastic about his courage, composure or would be shocked by his acting talent.

But first love passed with the end of school. For a long time, George did not start a serious relationship. Only having arrived in Moscow, an actor, who was already over thirty, found the only one. They encountered ads - Burkov in an absurd jacket in a large purple cage and an eighteen -year -old Muscovite. George did not take care of the girl in a generally accepted sense. They, as they say, were friends.

We walked together, talked about everything in the world. And once the actor said: “Marry me,” and Tanya agreed. They got married in the year, contrary to both parents of both. Tanya's father raged when it came to the wedding, because he only read in the newspaper about the signs of the Perm Maniac, in which a lot coincided with George.