Sergei Filippov (actor)
| Sergey Nikolayevich Filippov | |
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Сергей Николаевич Филиппов June 24, 1912 Saratov, Russian Empire |
| Died | April 19, 1990 (aged 77) Leningrad, USSR |
| Occupation | actor |
| Years active | 1937 – 1989 |
| Awards | People's Artist of the RSFSR (1974) |
Sergey Nikolayevich Filippov (Russian: Серге′й Никола′евич Фили′ппов, June 24, 1912, Saratov, Russian Empire, - April 19, 1990, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet film and theatre actor, best known for his parts in films Adventures of Korzinkina (1941), The Night Patrol (1957) and the adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's classic The Twelve Chairs (1971), which granted him the People's Artist of the RSFSR title in 1974.
Sergey Nikolayevich Filippov was born on June 24, 1912, in Saratov. His father was a factory turner, his mother a dressmaker. Expelled from school for bad behaviour (involving, reportedly, dangerous experiments in the cabinet of a chemistry teacher), he tried several jobs (a baker’s boy, a carpenter, a turner) before joining a ballet studio, which in 1929 sent him to Moscow for further education. Filippov enrolled into the recently formed Popular Music and Circus college which he graduated in 1933 to join the Moscow Ballet and Opera Theatre troupe. The heart problem forced Filippov to drop out, though; soon he found himself in the Saint Petersburg Comedy Theatre, led by Nikolai Akimov, where he became one of the leading actors.
In 1937 Sergey Filippov made his debut on big screen, playing a Finnish soldier in For Soviet Motherland. 1939-1940 saw Filippov cast in several major movies, playing an enemy saboteur (Zarkhi and Kheifits' Member of the Government), provision store wrecker in Kozintsev and Trauberg's The Vyborg Side, a railroad worker in Arinka by Kosheverova and Muzykant, a sailor anarchist in Sergey Yutkevich's Yakov Sverdlov. Both directors and critics praised Filippov's improvisational talent as well as plasticity and physical strength, which allowed him to perform dangerous stunts with ease.
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