Leonid Vladimirovich Kharitonov (Russian: Леонид
Ð'ладимирович Харитонов; 1930â€"1987) was a Soviet
actor. He played in the films Private Ivan, Ivan Brovkin on the State
Farm and Ulitsa polna neozhidannostey. He was awarded Honoured Artist
of the RSFSR in 1972.See image. He was born in Leningrad on 19 May
1930, USSR, and died in Moscow on 20 June 1987, aged 57.In early life
he was ambivalent about an acting career. Although he took part in
amateur productions, and in the ninth grade applied to theatre school,
he nevertheless chose to study law for a year at university, while
continuing theatrical performance in his spare time. "In the play The
Inspector, he rocked the entire city of Leningrad; he played
Bobchinsky and it was after this role that he again seriously
considered an acting career." That summer, the Moscow Art School
toured in Leningrad and offered auditions at his school. Kharitonov
secretly attended, and was accepted.He graduated from the
Nemirovich-Danchenko studio school at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1954.
This was the Gorky Art Academic Theatre. After graduating from the
studio school he continued working as an actor at the same theatre. He
was an actor with the Academic Art Theatre in the name of M. Gorky, or
Gorky Theatre, from 1954 to 1962, but then he left this theatre and in
1962â€"1963 he performed with the Theatre of Lenin Komsomol and with
the Pushkin Theatre. But in 1963 he returned to the Gorky Art Academic
Theatre. He was a film actor from 1954: his first role was Boris
Gorikov in the movie School of Courage, while he was still an acting
student.
Ð'ладимирович Харитонов; 1930â€"1987) was a Soviet
actor. He played in the films Private Ivan, Ivan Brovkin on the State
Farm and Ulitsa polna neozhidannostey. He was awarded Honoured Artist
of the RSFSR in 1972.See image. He was born in Leningrad on 19 May
1930, USSR, and died in Moscow on 20 June 1987, aged 57.In early life
he was ambivalent about an acting career. Although he took part in
amateur productions, and in the ninth grade applied to theatre school,
he nevertheless chose to study law for a year at university, while
continuing theatrical performance in his spare time. "In the play The
Inspector, he rocked the entire city of Leningrad; he played
Bobchinsky and it was after this role that he again seriously
considered an acting career." That summer, the Moscow Art School
toured in Leningrad and offered auditions at his school. Kharitonov
secretly attended, and was accepted.He graduated from the
Nemirovich-Danchenko studio school at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1954.
This was the Gorky Art Academic Theatre. After graduating from the
studio school he continued working as an actor at the same theatre. He
was an actor with the Academic Art Theatre in the name of M. Gorky, or
Gorky Theatre, from 1954 to 1962, but then he left this theatre and in
1962â€"1963 he performed with the Theatre of Lenin Komsomol and with
the Pushkin Theatre. But in 1963 he returned to the Gorky Art Academic
Theatre. He was a film actor from 1954: his first role was Boris
Gorikov in the movie School of Courage, while he was still an acting
student.
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