Lev Durov
Lev Konstantinovich Durov (Russian: Лев Константинович Дуров; IPA: [ˈlʲef kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ ˈdurəf]; 23 December 1931, Moscow – 20 August 2015, Moscow) was a Soviet/Russian theatre and film actor who appeared in more than 200 films[1] and numerous stage productions between 1955 and 2008. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1990.
Durov came from the illustrious Durov family whose members included memoirist Nadezhda Durova and animal trainer Anatoly Durov. His aunt's husband Prov Sadovsky Jr. ran the Maly Theatre in 1944-1947. Lev Durov married actress Irina Kirichenko (1931-2001) in 1954. Their daughter Ekaterina is also an actress.
Durov attended the Moscow Art Theatre school, where his teachers included Sergey Gerasimov and Sergey Blinnikov. He joined the troupe of Anatoly Efros in 1954 and was a mainstay of Efros's productions until 1984. For some 30 years, he worked at the Malaya Bronnaya Theatre both as an actor and as a director. He was the theatre's principal director from 2003 to 2006.
Durov was also known for his voice acting, most notably as Sharik the Dog in Three from Prostokvashino and its sequels. He published three books of memoirs, in 1999 and 2008. Lev Durov died on 20 August 2015[2] and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Selected filmography
- Actor
- Nine Days in One Year (1962) - KGB officer
- I Step Through Moscow (1963) - militia officer
- All The King's Men (1971) - Sugar Boy
- Stariki-razboyniki (1971) - driver
- Bumbarash (1971) - miller
- Big School-Break (1972) - militia sergeant
- A Man on His Right Place (1972) - Ivan Maksimovich
- We rode the tram Ilf and Petrov (1972) - passerby / Gusev-Lebedev
- Moscow-Cassiopeia (1973) - Academician Filatov
- Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) - agent Klaus
- Teens in the Universe (1974) - Academician Filatov
- Diamonds for Proletarian Dictatorship (1975) — Pojamchi
- Armed and Very Dangerous (1977) - Lucky Charlie
- Nose (1977) - Polizeimeister
- d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) - de Tréville
- Adjacent-channel Rejection Ratio (1980)
- Farewell (1981) - Pinegin
- Don't Be Afraid, I Am Here For You (1981) - San Sanych
- 34th Express (1982) — Multya
- Lullaby For Brother (1982) — Kirill's father
- Red Bells (1982) — Schreuder
- The Story of Voyages (1983) - Gorgon the robber
- It Was Fourth Year of War (1983) - Khomutov
- Pippi Longstocking (1984) — Stephensen
- Success (1984) — Platonov
- A Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines (1987) - coffin maker
- Don't Play the Fool (1997) — grandfather
- The Garden Was Full of Moon (2000)
- Voice
- Three from Prostokvashino (1978) - voice of Sharik the dog
- The Fire-Fairy (1979) - the Narrator / the grandfather
References
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- Official website (Russian)
- Lev Durov in a music-clip of Alexey Savchenko "Life is a game" 2011 on YouTube
- Lev Durov at the Internet Movie Database
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- 1931 births
- 2015 deaths
- People's Artists of the USSR
- Russian male film actors
- Russian male stage actors
- Russian male voice actors
- Soviet male film actors
- Soviet male stage actors
- Soviet male voice actors
- Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
- Male actors from Moscow
- Disease-related deaths in Russia
