Yevgeny Samoylov
| Yevgeny Samoilov Евгений Самойлов |
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Yevgeny Samoilov on a Soviet Postcard
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| Born |
Yevgeny Valerianovich Samoilov April 16, 1912 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | February 17, 2006 (aged 93) Moscow, Russia |
| Resting place |
Vagankovo Cemetery Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Children |
Tatiana Samoilova Alexander Samoilov |
Yevgeny Valerianovich Samoilov (Russian: Евгений Валерианович Самойлов) (16 April 1912, St. Petersburg — 17 February 2006, Moscow) was a Soviet actor who gained prominence in youthful heroic parts and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. He is the father of Tatiana Samoilova.
Samoilov is not related to the famous Samoilov family that dominated the Maly Theatre in the 19th century. He was educated in Leningrad, starting his career at a local theatre. In 1934 he was noticed by Vsevolod Meyerhold who invited him to join his own troupe in Moscow. Samoilov worked with Meyerhold for four years. He got his most substantial roles in Meyerhold's theatre playing Hernani in Hugo's drama and Chatsky in Woe from Wit.
When Meyerhold was arrested and purged in 1938, Samoilov was in the middle of rehearsing for Pushkin's Boris Godunov (the role of Grigory Otrepyev) and Ostrovsky's How the Steel Was Tempered (the role of Pavka Korchagin). His acting career seemed to be unhampered, however. Samoilov's appearance as the Soviet commander Shchors in Alexander Dovzhenko's film of the same name won him the Stalin Prize for 1941. He proceeded to become an iconic film actor of the Joseph Stalin era, playing against Lyubov Orlova in Bright Path and Marina Ladynina in Six O'Clock in the Evening after the War (1944 film; 1946 Stalin Prize). One of his favourite film roles was that of General Skobelev in The Heroes of Shipka (1955).
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