Alexander Smirnov actor biography

A kind of strong, muscular man. He suffered any mockery of the director, did not pay attention to any difficulties. The military past was probably affected. At the same time, Alyosha was hot.

If he felt injustice, he was openly indignant, objected. Maybe someone did not like his openness and honesty at the studio ”Georgy Vitsin, the actor’s actor, despite the popularity of the audience of Smirnov-comic, he wanted to be a dramatic actor. Four years later, they again starred together in the film "Scouts". Joint work very quickly grew into strong friendship. In the year, Bykov invited Smirnov to play the role of Makarych mechanic in his own painting “Only“ old people ”go into battle.

This character became beloved by both the audience and the actor himself, and he considered Leonid Bykov “his” director. The final episode at the grave of the dead pilots was recognized as one of the most dramatic in Soviet cinema. They were united not only by friendship - experiences of failures in personal life, a sense of unrealism. Having met a soul mate, Bykov gave Smirnov a chance to break out of the comedic role, touch the dream.

He knew well and understood people well in the eccentric Hamlet ”from an interview with Vladimir Talashko, the organizer of the Leonid Bykov Foundation newspaper“ Culture ”” ... Women were unfair to him: personal life Alexei Smirnov was never married. Even while working at the Leningrad Theater of Musical Comedy, he met Lidia Maslova. The war prevented the young one.

After a heavy concussion, Smirnov could not be a father, therefore, having returned from the front, he broke up with a girl. The actor loved children very much. He often visited the pupils of the orphanage, gave them gifts. Smirnov even wanted to adopt one disabled child, but because of the acting profession who took a lot of time, this did not happen. Until the end of his life, the artist lived in the Leningrad communal with a painful mother.

He did not realize his dreams of paternity, and he loved the children madly. He led a closed lifestyle, often sick. In the fall of the year, due to a heart attack, he went to the hospital for six months. In March, the artist came to visit Leonid Bykov and encouraged the words of his hero from the film “ONE“ old people ”go into battle:“ We will live, Makarych! On this day, friends-actors met for the last time: on April 11, Bykov died in a car accident.

The death of a friend shocked Smirnov, and he began to abuse alcohol. Alcohol gave complications on the heart, and in the year the actor was again in the hospital. In the year in Kharkov, the actor and the hero of the Great Patriotic War erected a monument. It was opened on the territory of the University of Air Forces named after I. Kozhedub in honor of the flight of the Faculty of Aviation Engineers.

Smirnov was depicted in the image of a mechanic Makarych from his favorite film about “Singing Squadron” - “Only“ Old Men ”go into battle. Interesting facts 1. The military was located nearby together with the commander in chief himself. Smirnov headed for them with a drill and said: “Comrade Marshal, allow me to report: Lieutenant Alexei Smirnov! Zhukov knew about the artist’s military merits.

That same evening, he came to his performance to the local House of Culture, and then invited the actor to a banquet. Only then did his colleagues learn about Smirnov’s exploits, whom he did not like to spread and always answered: “Well, he served, well, there are some rewards-so everyone distinguished themselves in the war. And I did nothing special. " The actor had several different collections.

He collected insects: at first he dried them, and then glued them into the album. In another album, Smirnov kept clippings from newspapers with publications about himself. He also had a huge library, which consisted mainly of rare books and publications of world literature. They occupied almost a whole room in a communal apartment. Another of Smirnov’s favorite hobbies was reading.

We sat at night on the seashore, by the fire, and Lesha read and read poetry, ”said actor Ilya Rutberg. In Smirnov, everyone saw only a comedic actor. Thinking to shoot him as a front -line soldier in the film “ONE“ Old Men ”, Leonid Bykov, was rebuffed by local officials who kept repeating:“ It would not happen to this! He has a stupid face! Bykov insisted on his own, otherwise, was ready to refuse to make a film.

The director proved the viability of the actor-fontovik, who really passed more than one battle and returned from the front by the full gentleman of the Orders of Glory. Especially for Smirnov, Bykov retained his middle name and for the hero - Makarych. In the year in the hometown of Smirnov, Danilov, a cinema was opened in the House of Culture and called it “Makarych”. On the territory of the local airfield, the actor was erected by a monument, sculptor Elena Paskhina.

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