It is safe to say that in our countryThis outstanding actor is known not only for adult viewers, but also for children. He is loved for outstanding talent, and also for the extraordinary voice that the most beloved cartoon characters speak.
Vasily Livanov was born on the nineteenthJuly one thousand nine hundred and thirty-fifth in the capital of our country. The boy was born in a creative acting family. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Livanov, the grandfather of our hero, worked in the theater of a small town and wore the pseudonym Izvolsky.
Boris Livanov - Vasily's father, People's Artist of the USSR, the famous Moscow Art Theater. Viewers of the older generation is known for remarkable work in the films "Admiral Ushakov" (1953), "Dubrovsky" (1935).
Mother - Evgenia Kazimirovna - was engagedraising a son and managing a household. We can say that the biography of Vasily Livanov was ordained from above. In such a family in him since childhood laid a creative attitude to life.
Учился Василий в школе № 170 (сегодня это школа № 49). It should be noted that her students were such famous people as Edvard Radzinsky, Andrei Mironov, Gennady Gladkov, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Mark Rozovsky.
In nineteen fifty-eighth year basilLivanov graduated from the famous Shchukin School. A beginner actor got into the troupe of the famous Vakhtangov Theater. He worked there for only one year. It was at this time that he made his film debut. Vasily Livanov played the role of geologist Andrei in the drama “Unsent Letter”. After filming was completed, the great director Julius Raizman predicted a great future for the young actor in cinema and advised him to leave the theater. Vasily heeded the advice and went to work at the Theater Studio of the film actor. A little later, he left him too - there were many job offers, the great maestro was right.
The next picture in which the actor starred wasdrama "The Blind Musician" based on the story by V. Korolenko. By the way, Vasily Livanov, whose filmography is extensive, just once filmed with his father in this tape.
Talented actor immediately noticedfilmmakers. Dear domestic directors began to invite him into their paintings for the main roles. He did not leave anyone indifferent (neither the spectators nor the cinema specialists) the bright and piercing image of Professor Johannes Werner, who managed to discover the rays of the life-giving force. In the feature film “Colleagues”, Vasily Livanov was shot with wonderful partners - Oleg Anofriev and Vasily Lanov. They played novice physicians, to whose share in the very first days of the practice they were seriously tested. The role of the doctor the actor will meet on his creative path more than once. For example, in the comedy "Green Light", where he played a small role of a surgeon.
Биография Василия Ливанова наполнена сильными и bright works. In 1963, he superbly played the role of F. Dzerzhinsky. It is about the historical drama "Blue Notebook" by Lev Kulidzhanov. The image turned out to be so authentic that after the picture was released, the actor was repeatedly offered to play the role of the chief security officer. However, Vasily Borisovich answered all these proposals with a polite refusal - he was not interested in repeating himself.
Vasily Livanov graduated in 1966courses at Goskino. The graduation work was a cartoon, beloved by millions of children, - “The Most, Most, Most”. Later, the actor began to work actively in this fascinating genre. Many people unmistakably recognize his unique, with a slight hoarse voice, which, it would seem, was created in order to voice fairy-tale characters. But not everyone knows that he was not always so. On the set of “Unsent Letter,” the actor lost his voice, which then acquired an extraordinary timbre. Boa, Carlson, Crocodile Gena - they all spoke in the voice of a favorite actor. But this is a classic of domestic animation. Already several generations of kids have grown up with these heroes.
In the seventies, the actor Vasily Livanov,whose biography was already inextricably linked with the cinema, continued to delight the admirers of his talent with new works. In the tape of Alexey Batalov "The Player" in the great novel of F. M. Dostoevsky Vasily Borisovich was shot in 1972.
Three years later, he brilliantly played the roleEmperor Nicholas I in the drama "Star of Captivating Happiness." With this picture, history repeated itself - invitations for the role of emperor fell on Livanova from all sides.
Selection of actors for the famous film "SherlockHolmes and Dr. Watson. ”I. Maslennikov (director) began by viewing the drawings of Sydney Paget, a close friend of Conan Doyle, who first illustrated the famous creation. The brutal Vasily Livanov and the charming and intelligent Vitaly Solomin seemed to have disappeared from the drawings of Page.
The first "Sherlock Holmes" with Vasily Livanovmarked the beginning of the famous TV series, which consisted of individual films. Each picture was a resounding success, and not only in the USSR, but also abroad. In the UK, these films have caused great interest. The press did not stint on enthusiastic epithets. The British enthusiastically thanked the Russian actors, who returned them national heroes.
There is no doubt that this success is the merit of the whole team.the show. Perfectly chosen actors - Irina Kupchenko, Boris Brondukov, Sergey Shakurov, Rina Zelenaya, Oleg Yankovsky made up an excellent team. The films accurately convey the Victorian era and, of course, can not be said about the unique music of V. Dashkevich. Still, the main success is the merit of Vasily Livanov and his friend and partner Vitaly Solomin.
During the filming of the show actor Livanov Vasilyvery friendly with Solomin. Vitaly persuaded his partner in 1983 to make a production of his early novel "My favorite clown." The main role of Sinitsyn in the play was performed by Solomin.
In 1988, Livanov together with Y.Semenov organized the Moscow theater "Detective". In fact, he was the first enterprise in the country. On the stage of the new theater they staged not only action and topical plays, but also wonderful children's performances. The theater existed for four years, but then there were problems with financing, and besides, influential commercial structures urgently needed the building of the theater, and it was closed. Vasily Borisovich did not participate in any theatrical projects.
The biography of Vasily Livanova is full of experiments.The actor loves to shock his fans. When everyone is used to seeing him as an exceptionally famous detective, Livanov unexpectedly appeared before his viewers in a new role. In the film “Don Quixote Returns,” he became simultaneously a director, screenwriter and leading actor.
This talented person is the author of the plays.“Don Juan”, “The Bremen Town Musicians”, “My Favorite Clown”, “Artist”. The collection of fairy tales by Livanov Vasily Borisovich “The Most-Most-Most” and the book of stories “The Legend and the Story” have been reprinted several times. These works have been published many times overseas in Spanish, Serbian, English, Turkish, and Romanian. Publishing house "Drofa" has released a collection of funny fairy tales "Santa Claus and Summer." Read to children these books - they are very kind and funny.
For about thirty years now Vasily Borisovichhappily living in a second marriage. Vasily Borisovich fell in love with his first wife Alina in his youth. However, she chose another man. A few years later, Alina divorced her husband and entered into a marriage with Livanov. Marital life was not unclouded. In those days, the actor loved to drink, in the house there were often scandals. The daughter Nastya was born in marriage, and after seven years Alina filed for divorce.
With the second wife Livanov met at the studio "Soyuzmultfilm", where she worked as an animator. The family had two children. The eldest son of Vasily Livanov - Boris, the youngest - Nikolai.
Anastasia Livanova for a long time did not communicate with her father, but invited him to her wedding. She graduated from the faculty of biology of Moscow State University, but later became a sculptor.
As already mentioned, in the second marriage the elderchild - Boris Livanov. The son of Vasily Livanov several years ago, as a result of a domestic quarrel, killed a man and received nine years in prison. At this time he was already married a second time and had a daughter from his first wife, who suffered from alcoholism.
According to the statements of the actor himself, he and his wife are very tired of the behavior of their son. It got to the point that parents turned to law enforcement agencies with a request to protect them from his attacks.
Nikolai followed in his father’s footsteps, graduated from VGIK and became an actor. He gives high hopes and does not cause trouble to the father.
Currently, a wonderful actor is almost notremoved. There are still a lot of offers for him, but the actor refuses them, considering the scenarios mostly mixed with blood, violence, sex. In his opinion, only the classics can show the great truth of art. Therefore, he agreed to play the psychiatrist Stravinsky in the film “The Master and Margarita” after M. Bulgakov.
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