Leonid Kharitonov (actor)
| Leonid Kharitonov | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Leonid Vladimirovich Kharitonov 19 May 1930 Leningrad, Soviet Union |
| Died | 20 June 1987 (aged 57) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | actor |
| Years active | 1954–1986 |
| Spouse(s) | (1) Svetlana Kharitonova, actress, b. 1932 (2) Gemma Osmolovskaya, actress (3) Evgeniya Gibova (1942–2004), drama student |
Leonid Vladimirovich Kharitonov (Russian: Леонид Владимирович Харитонов; 1930–1987) was a Soviet actor. He played in the films Private Ivan, Ivan Brovkin on the State Farm and Ulitsa polna neozhidannostey. He was awarded Honoured Artist of the RSFSR in 1972.
See . He was born in Leningrad on 19 May 1930, USSR, and died in Moscow on 20 June 1987, aged 57.
In early life he was ambivalent about an acting career. Although he took part in amateur productions, and in the ninth grade applied to theatre school, he nevertheless chose to study law for a year at university, while continuing theatrical performance in his spare time. "In the play The Inspector, he rocked the entire city of Leningrad; he played Bobchinsky and it was after this role that he again seriously considered an acting career." That summer, the Moscow Art School toured in Leningrad and offered auditions at his school. Kharitonov secretly attended, and was accepted.
He graduated from the Nemirovich-Danchenko studio school at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1954. This was the Gorky Art Academic Theatre. After graduating from the studio school he continued working as an actor at the same theatre. He was an actor with the Academic Art Theatre in the name of M. Gorky, or Gorky Theatre, from 1954 to 1962, but then he left this theatre and in 1962–1963 he performed with the Theatre of Lenin Komsomol and with the Pushkin Theatre. But in 1963 he returned to the Gorky Art Academic Theatre. He was a film actor from 1954: his first role was Boris Gorikov in the movie School of Courage, while he was still an acting student.
In 1955 Kharitonov became a public idol after Private Ivan was screened throughout the country. He was the object of much fan mail, and appeared privately to many local audiences in clubs, schools, factories and stadia. "His fame was such that the actor could not walk down the street." Kharitonov was a multi-dimensional performer who created a new type of Russian cinematic character: the charming bad egg, which he developed in his characterisations of Brovkin, the policeman Vasya Shaneshkin and his later heroic characters. "It was skill, hard work, professionalism and above all perception which allowed this sophisticated actor to play so convincingly this simple country boy, Brovkin." Much of this was the effect of his training with the psychological acting school of MAT.Private Ivan was followed in 1958 by Ivan Brovkin on the State Farm (see critical commentary below).
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