Yuri Belov (actor)

Yuri Andreevich Belov (Russian: Юрий Андреевич Белов; 31 July 1930 – 31 December 1991) was a Soviet film and theater actor. One of the most popular actors of the Soviet cinema 1950-1960's.

Biography and career

Yurii Belov was born July 31, 1930 in the Rzhev (now - Tver region). He spent his childhood in the Kuril Islands, as Yuri's father was a military man, and the last place of his service became the Far East.

He graduated from the VGIK (acting course of Boris Bibikov and Olga Pyzhova) in 1955. One year later he became famous for his role as Grisha in the film Carnival Night.

Then, for seven years, one after another on a screen out films with the actor, who consolidated his success among the audience and made Yuri Belov one of the most popular actors of the Soviet cinema. Here are the most popular: The Girl Without an Address, Spring on Zarechnaya Street, The Unamenables, The Queen of Gas Station. In the last two films, he played in a pair with Nadezhda Rumyantseva - took a magnificent actor's duet. Later he was an actor of State Theatre of film actor.

Yuri Belov's film heroes differ inimitable cheerfulness and charm, thanks to which they are so loved by the audience. In real life, the actor behind the reputation of "strange man", "not of this world". In the mid-1960s due to careless statements about the leadership of the country (according to other sources, after a failed suicide attempt), the actor was in a psychiatric hospital for six months, after which his career went downhill. He began to avoid, given the role of the only episodes.

When Theatre of film actor in the end he was given the role of Miloslavsky in the play "Ivan Vasilievich" by Bulgakov, it was an incredible joy for him. According to the testimony, Elena Bulgakova, writer's widow, having been on the play, said that his interpretation of the role Miloslavsky very close to what the author wanted to see - Mikhail Bulgakov. Subsequently, Belov left the Theatre of film actor.

In the film "The Train Stops - two minutes" (1972) is noticeably aged Belov last played a major role. Then it was almost complete oblivion.

The actor was forced to make a living in private carrying. Sitting in his car of "Moskvich", bought during the former popularity, passengers hardly recognized in the elderly the main driver film jovial 50s - 60s.

Worrying because of their lack of demand, Belov began to abuse alcohol, his health deteriorated with each passing year. In his latest film, "Two and One" (1988) Belov appeared in another tiny role already seriously ill.

Yuri Belov died in the morning December 31, 1991, and not waiting for Christmas showing of the film "Carnival Night," which he loved to watch, remembering his youth. He is buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery in Moscow, cemetery plot number 10.

Personal life

At the age of 40 years Yuri Belov married actress Svetlana Shvaiko, which was for 35 years. In 1976 they had a son Svyatoslav. After high school, he never studied. His father died when Svyatoslav was 15 years old. I Svyatoslav tried to work as an assistant operator at the Mosfilm and the restaurant chef. For some time he worked with Rolan Bykov at the festival of children's films. More when the mother's life began to use drugs, for which he was first arrested, but at the request of Rolan Bykov received a suspended sentence. After the death of Bykov was fired in 1998. A year later, she died of cancer, his mother, and he immediately went to prison for hooliganism and served 2.5 years. The second was the mother Alla Budnitskaia for him in every way that cared about him, but in spite of this, he again went to prison. When he was released after 2008, at the urging of a friend a few years became a novice in the Antony of Siya Monastery.

Selected filmography

• Spring on Zarechnaya Street (1956) as Yevgeny Ishchenko
• Carnival Night (1956) as Grisha Koltsov
• The Girl Without an Address (1957) as Mitya
• The Unamenables (1959) as Tolya Grachkin
• Vingt Mille Lieues sur la Terre (1960) as Nikolay Savin
• Hussar Ballad (1962) as hussar-partisan
• The Queen of Gas Station (1962) as Slavka
• Come Here, Mukhtar! (1965) as Larionov
• Give me a complaints book (1965) as German
• Grandads-Robbers (1971) as Petya
• Pro Krasnuyu Shapochku (1977) as Grandad

Awards

Yuri Belov was winner of the All-Union Film Festival in the category "Award for the actors" for 1960.