Vyacheslav Nevinny

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nevinny (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Неви́нный; 30 November 1934 – 31 May 2009[1]) was a Soviet and Russian actor who was titled a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986. He worked in the Moscow Art Theatre from 1959 until his death in 2009.

Vyacheslav Nevinny
Nevinny in 2004<
Born
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nevinny

(1934-11-30)30 November 1934
Tula, Soviet Union
Died31 May 2009(2009-05-31) (aged 74)
Moscow, Russia
Resting placeTroyekurovskoye Cemetery, Moscow
OccupationActor
Years active1960–2003
TitlePeople's Artist of the USSR (1986)

Biography

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nevinny was born on 30 November 1934 in Tula. After graduating in 1954 from high school Vyacheslav tried to join the school-studio of Moscow Arts Theater, but failed the examinations. After failure, he did not leave a dream to become an actor. Instead, he became employed in the Tula Theatre for Young Spectators as a supporting actor.

In 1955, Nevinny again takes an examination in the school-studio of Moscow Arts Theater. At this time the attempt was successful. After graduation in 1959 (Viktor Stanitsyn's course), Vyacheslav became an actor. He participated in many performances, such as:

In 1960, Nevinny made his debut in cinema as a policeman in the movie Probation. After his first role, Nevinny played in several other movies, The Chairman (as Pavel Markushev) and Ruslan and Ludmila (as Farlaf). Vyacheslav Nevinny also played in famous comedies The Garage (Garazh) (1980) and It Can't Be! (Ne mozhet byt'!) (1975).

In 1984, Nevinny played the role of Sobakevich in Dead Souls. In the same year, he took part in the popular children sci-fi TV-series Guest from the Future as space pirate Veselchak U (lit. Jolly Man U).

Yevgeni Gerasimov’s comedy Do Not Marry, Girls (Ne khodite, devki, zamuzh) (1985), in which Nevinny played one of the leads, was very popular with the viewers, as well as his roles in Eldar Ryazanov’s comedy Beware of the Car (Beregis avtomobilya) (1966) and Promised Heaven (Nebesa obetovannye) (1991). One of Nevinny's last remarkable film roles was the remake of the famous Italian film Cops and Robbers (Politseiskiye i vory) (1997) by director Nikolai Dostal. Many popular Russian animation characters speak in Nevinny's voice. For many years, Nevinny suffered from diabetes, which grew worse and worse. In 2003 he was taken to a hospital and had to spend a whole year there.

In 2005, Nevinny underwent major surgery. Nevinny's left foot was amputated because of gangrene. In 2006, his second foot was amputated, as the illness progressed.

Nevinny died at the age of 74 on 31 May 2009. Pres. Dmitry Medvedev expressed his condolences to relatives and friends of the actor. Nevinny was buried on 3 June 2009 in Moscow's Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.

Selected filmography
Actor
  • Probation (Испытательный срок, 1960) as Sergei Zaitsev, police officer
  • Seven Winds (1962) as Yuriy Zubarov
  • The Third Half (1963) as Savchuk
  • It Happened at the Police Station (1963) as kapitan Serebrovskiy
  • The Green Flame (1964) as Vikharyev
  • The Chairman (1964) as Pavel Markushev
  • Thirty Three (Тридцать три, 1965) as Vasiliy Lyubashkin
  • Clean Ponds (1965) as Moryachok
  • Beware of the Car (Берегись автомобиля, 1966) as car mechanic
  • Druzya i gody (1966)
  • Papa, slozhi! (1966)
  • Myatezhnaya zastava (1967)
  • Virineya (1969) as Pavel Sluzov
  • Surovyye kilometry (1970) as Militia Senior Lieutenant
  • Passing Through Moscow (1970) as Valentin
  • I byl vecher, i bylo utro... (1971) as Sailor
  • Molodye (1971)
  • Russkoye pole (1972)
  • Ruslan and Ludmila (Руслан и Людмила, 1972) as Farlaf
  • The Last Day (1973) as Stepan Danilovich Stepeshko
  • It Can't Be! (Не может быть!, 1975) as Gorbushkin's brother-in-law, beer seller
  • Edinstvennaya (1976) as Yura Zhurchenko
  • Au-u! (1976) as Writer (segment I podyekhali k izbe svaty... Ili pokhozhdeniya pisatelya Seni v poiskakh 'slova zatayonnovo')
  • Smeshnye lyudi! (1977)
  • Incognito from St. Petersburg (Инкогнито из Петербурга, 1978) as Zemlyanika
  • Borrowing Matchsticks (За спичками, 1980) as Jussi Vatanen
  • The Garage (Гараж, 1980) as Karpukhin
  • The Old New Year (Старый Новый год, 1981) as Petr Sebeykin, toy factory worker
  • Krepysh (1982)
  • Troe na shosse (1983) as Pushkarev
  • Polosa vezeniya (1983) (segment "Vizit")
  • Crazy Day of Engineer Barkasov (Безумный день инженера Баркасова, 1983, TV Movie) as Kobylin
  • Guest from the Future (Гостья из будущего, 1984, TV Mini-Series) as Veselchak U, space pirate
  • Lev Tolstoy (1984) as Mummer
  • Dead Souls (Мёртвые души, 1984, TV Mini-Series) as Sobakevich
  • Yesli mozhesh, prosti... (1984)
  • I Still Love, I Still Hope (1985) as Boris Zakharov
  • Do Not Marry, Girls (Не ходите, девки, замуж, 1985) as Ivan Savelievich Malkov, chairman of a collective farm
  • Zabavy molodykh (1987)
  • Lilac Ball (Лиловый шар, 1987) as Gromozeka, alien archaeologist
  • Ubiystvo svidetelya (1988)
  • Vam chto, nasha vlast ne nravitsya?! (1989)
  • Don't Leave... (Не покидай..., 1989, TV Movie) as King Theodore
  • Shapka (1990) as Vasiliy Tryoshkin
  • Samoubiytsa (1990)
  • Vysshiy klass (1991)
  • Shkura (1991)
  • Nomer 'lyuks' dlya generala s devochkoy (1991)
  • Promised Heaven (Небеса обетованные, 1991) as Stepan, bum
  • Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda (1994) as Strasheela
  • Lyubov frantsuzskaya i russkaya (1994) as Nikolay Petrovich
  • Karera Arturo Ui (1996)
  • Cops and Robbers (Полицейские и воры, 1997)
Voice

Honours and awards

References
  1. http://www.newizv.ru/lenta/109621/ Archived 11 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
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