- Yury Yakovlev
Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev (born
April 25 ,1928 inMoscow ) is one of the most popular and critically acclaimedSoviet film actors. He was namedPeople's Artist of the USSR in1976 .Yakovlev joined the
Vakhtangov Theatre in1952 but his first flirtation with fame came in1955 , when he played Prince Myshkin inIvan Pyryev 's adaptation of "The Idiot". Yakovlev followed his first success with regular appearances inEldar Ryazanov 's comedies, most notably "Hussar Ballad " (1962), in which he playedPoruchik Rzhevsky . The feature was such a resounding success that Rzhevsky's character gave rise to innumerableRussian jokes .In the 1960s and 1970s Yakovlev's career was varied and interesting, his roles ranging from Stiva Oblonsky in the classic Soviet adaptation of "Anna Karenina" (1968) to the paranoically jealous Ippolit in another of Ryazanov's comedies, "
Irony of Fate " (1975). His participation in a series of films aboutWorld War II won him theUSSR State Prize for1979 .Yakovlev enjoyed perhaps his greatest popular acclaim in
Leonid Gaidai 's film version ofMikhail Bulgakov 's egregiously funny "Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Occupation" (aka "", 1973). His film career effectively came to a halt afterGeorgi Daneliya 's sci-fi extravaganza "Kin-dza-dza! ", in which he appeared alongsideYevgeny Leonov . He still performs on the stage of the Vakhtangov Theatre.External links
*imdb name|id=0945085|name=Yury Yakovlev
*imdb name|id=0945063|name=Anton Yakovlev (Yakovlev's son)
* [http://www.vahtangov.ru/onstage/actors/yakovlev/ Yakovlev on the Vakhtangov Theatre Homepage]
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