Yury Yakovlev

Yury Yakovlev

Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev (born April 25, 1928 in Moscow) is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed Soviet film actors. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1976.

Yakovlev joined the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1952 but his first flirtation with fame came in 1955, when he played Prince Myshkin in Ivan Pyryev's adaptation of "The Idiot". Yakovlev followed his first success with regular appearances in Eldar Ryazanov's comedies, most notably "Hussar Ballad" (1962), in which he played Poruchik Rzhevsky. The feature was such a resounding success that Rzhevsky's character gave rise to innumerable Russian 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 about World War II won him the USSR State Prize for 1979.

Yakovlev enjoyed perhaps his greatest popular acclaim in Leonid Gaidai's film version of Mikhail Bulgakov's egregiously funny "Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Occupation" (aka "", 1973). His film career effectively came to a halt after Georgi Daneliya's sci-fi extravaganza "Kin-dza-dza!", in which he appeared alongside Yevgeny Leonov. He still performs on the stage of the Vakhtangov Theatre.

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*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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