Erast Pavlovich Garin (Russian: ÐÑ€Ð°Ì Ñ Ñ‚ ÐŸÐ°Ì Ð²Ð»Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡
Ð"Ð°Ì Ñ€Ð¸Ð½; 10 November [O.S. 28 October] 1902 â€" 4 September 1980)
was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter. He was,
together with Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Martinson, one of the leading
comic actors of Vsevolod Meyerhold's company and of the Soviet cinema.
He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1977.Garin was born in
Ryazan as Erast Gerasimov. He started his acting career in 1919 in an
amateur theatre of the Ryazan military district. In 1926 he finished
his education in the experimental theatrical workshops of the People's
Commissariat for Education. He always looked up upon Meyerhold and
Michael Chekhov as his mentors, rejecting naturalistic acting
techniques propagated by Konstantin Stanislavski and paying utmost
importance to voice and gesture.Garin worked with Meyerhold in his
theatre until its dissolution in 1936. Among his triumphs was the part
of Khlestakov in the 1926 production of The Government Inspector. The
trance-like quality of his "grotesquely anxious" performances in
Meyerhold's productions could be attributed to an expressionistic
acting style.Nikolay Akimov's Theatre of Comedy was the next theatre
he worked in. In 1946 he gave up stage performances and concentrated
on film acting. In 1941, he was awarded the Stalin Prize for the role
of Tarakanov in the film Musical Story. Half-blindness prevented him
from playing any major roles in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ð"Ð°Ì Ñ€Ð¸Ð½; 10 November [O.S. 28 October] 1902 â€" 4 September 1980)
was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter. He was,
together with Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Martinson, one of the leading
comic actors of Vsevolod Meyerhold's company and of the Soviet cinema.
He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1977.Garin was born in
Ryazan as Erast Gerasimov. He started his acting career in 1919 in an
amateur theatre of the Ryazan military district. In 1926 he finished
his education in the experimental theatrical workshops of the People's
Commissariat for Education. He always looked up upon Meyerhold and
Michael Chekhov as his mentors, rejecting naturalistic acting
techniques propagated by Konstantin Stanislavski and paying utmost
importance to voice and gesture.Garin worked with Meyerhold in his
theatre until its dissolution in 1936. Among his triumphs was the part
of Khlestakov in the 1926 production of The Government Inspector. The
trance-like quality of his "grotesquely anxious" performances in
Meyerhold's productions could be attributed to an expressionistic
acting style.Nikolay Akimov's Theatre of Comedy was the next theatre
he worked in. In 1946 he gave up stage performances and concentrated
on film acting. In 1941, he was awarded the Stalin Prize for the role
of Tarakanov in the film Musical Story. Half-blindness prevented him
from playing any major roles in the 1960s and 1970s.
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