Aleksandr Sergeievich Demyanenko (Russian: Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ì Ð½Ð´Ñ€
Ð¡ÐµÑ€Ð³ÐµÌ ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð"ÐµÐ¼ÑŒÑ Ì Ð½ÐµÐ½ÐºÐ¾; May 30, 1937 â€" August
22, 1999) was a Russian film and theater actor. He was given the
honorary distinction of People's Artist of the RSFSR. He began his
acting career with the film Veter in 1958, and is well known for
playing the character Shurik in a number of films, beginning with the
1965 comedy Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures, and ending with
the 1997 film Old Songs of the Main Things 2.Aleksandr Demyanenko was
born in Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union in 1937. Aleksandr's mother, Galina
Belkova was an accountant. His father, Sergei Petrovich, was an actor
who graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts.
Sergei later worked as a director at the Sverdvlosk Opera Theatre, and
as a child Aleksandr played bit parts at the theatre. Aleksandr
attended a theater workshop at the Palace of Culture and parallel to
that he studied piano at a music school. He also learned foreign
languages with an emphasis on German in middle school and in high
school started to sing in a baritone. In 1954 he began to study
jurisprudence at the Sverdlovsk University of Law, but was expelled
from the first semester for skipping lessons. In 1954 he failed to get
into the Moscow Art Theatre, however in 1955 he was accepted both at
the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts and at the Boris
Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow. He ended up choosing
Lunacharsky.In 1958 he was cast in the film Veter (Russian:
Ð'етер). In 1959 he graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute
for Theatre Arts theatre acting school. He then worked in the
Mayakovsky Theater in Moscow. In 1959 he starred in Everything Begins
with Hitting the Road.In 1961 Aleksandr Demyanenko moved to Leningrad
and became staff actor at Lenfilm studio. There he starred in the film
Grown-Up Children. He then went on to play in A Night Before
Christmas, Peace to Him Who Enter and was cast for the title role in
Dima Gorin's Career. In 1962 he starred in A Trip Without a Load and
Bang the Drum. In 1963 he starred in Cheka Employee, The First
Trolleybus and Cain XVIII. In 1964 he starred in The Returned Music
and State Offender.
Ð¡ÐµÑ€Ð³ÐµÌ ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð"ÐµÐ¼ÑŒÑ Ì Ð½ÐµÐ½ÐºÐ¾; May 30, 1937 â€" August
22, 1999) was a Russian film and theater actor. He was given the
honorary distinction of People's Artist of the RSFSR. He began his
acting career with the film Veter in 1958, and is well known for
playing the character Shurik in a number of films, beginning with the
1965 comedy Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures, and ending with
the 1997 film Old Songs of the Main Things 2.Aleksandr Demyanenko was
born in Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union in 1937. Aleksandr's mother, Galina
Belkova was an accountant. His father, Sergei Petrovich, was an actor
who graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts.
Sergei later worked as a director at the Sverdvlosk Opera Theatre, and
as a child Aleksandr played bit parts at the theatre. Aleksandr
attended a theater workshop at the Palace of Culture and parallel to
that he studied piano at a music school. He also learned foreign
languages with an emphasis on German in middle school and in high
school started to sing in a baritone. In 1954 he began to study
jurisprudence at the Sverdlovsk University of Law, but was expelled
from the first semester for skipping lessons. In 1954 he failed to get
into the Moscow Art Theatre, however in 1955 he was accepted both at
the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts and at the Boris
Shchukin Theatre Institute in Moscow. He ended up choosing
Lunacharsky.In 1958 he was cast in the film Veter (Russian:
Ð'етер). In 1959 he graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute
for Theatre Arts theatre acting school. He then worked in the
Mayakovsky Theater in Moscow. In 1959 he starred in Everything Begins
with Hitting the Road.In 1961 Aleksandr Demyanenko moved to Leningrad
and became staff actor at Lenfilm studio. There he starred in the film
Grown-Up Children. He then went on to play in A Night Before
Christmas, Peace to Him Who Enter and was cast for the title role in
Dima Gorin's Career. In 1962 he starred in A Trip Without a Load and
Bang the Drum. In 1963 he starred in Cheka Employee, The First
Trolleybus and Cain XVIII. In 1964 he starred in The Returned Music
and State Offender.
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