The famous comedian - tragedian our movie 85!

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Today, September 2, 2011 would have turned 85 years of outstanding domestic film actor, who owned the great art of laughter through the tears, the man without whom it is impossible to imagine the Soviet cinema of the second half of the twentieth century, Evgenii Pavlovich Leonov.

Over 30 years in the comedy roles he probably had no equal. Great success came to an actor in 1961 when the Soviet Union came to the screens the comedy "Striped flight." Who plays barman and fake tiger tamer Shuleikin then already 35 years old, and was behind 10 years of experience shooting in film. After the heady success of the picture (the film - leading rental watched more than 31 million viewers) of the proposal had been lights out. Each year, Yevgeny Leonov, who had a rare for the Screen Actors Guild and the reincarnation of the organic, managed to appear in 2-3 films.

But the most vivid and unforgettable images of the artist managed to create a wizard in the films sad comedy of George Danelia. Beginning with the 1965 painting "Thirty-Three", where Leonov brilliantly played the role of a patient with 33 teeth on me, no movie director has managed without the participation of a favorite artist. Probably because Leonov, in his manner of play, full of kindness and sadness look was the same tone, which once wrote, directed, director of the Moscow theater. Andrei Goncharov Vladimir Mayakovsky: "Yevgeny Leonov was the great Russian comedian. And you know what a Russian comedian? This is a must, without fail - and even tragic, it should be romantic tear, sound tone of tragedy. " These traits were imbued with all the movies Danelia - comedy, not a single snyavshego pure comedy.

In Danelia Leonov and have played one of the few dramatic roles, which the artist had always lacked. In the tragicomic tale "Tears dripped" (1982), where the actor played the role of piercing a respectable family man and his colleague Pavel Ivanovich Vasin, who once in his eye he had a splinter magic mirrors, begin to see in others nothing but defects.

Wonderful tragicomic role Leonov also performed in films by Eldar Ryazanov, "Zigzag luck" (1969) and "On a poor Gusar put in a word" (1980). And in 1980 he played in the Russo-Finnish comedy directed by Leonid Gaidai "for the matches," therefore, having worked with all major domestic film comedy. But the most popularly-favorite film with Evgeny Leonov became a comedy of Alexander Gray, "Gentlemen of Fortune" (1970), where the actor played two roles at once - charming kindergarten director Yevgeny Ivanovich Troshkina and charming recidivist thief, nicknamed the "Associate". However, in this film is an eccentric manner glimpses Danelia, together with Victoria Tokareva wrote the screenplay and speaking its artistic director.

Not many fewer people dropped out of love and to share the animated Winnie the Pooh, who said a hoarse voice muffled-Leonov. In addition to the main hero of the famous fairy tale characters voiced by Leonov has 20 cartoons.

In 1988, Yevgeny Leonov survived the hardest heart, and in 1994 left this world, going to the theater's famous play "Memorial Prayer", where he played a major role.

In a recent interview with actor, responding to a question about belief in God, said: "For someone to God in heaven, but for someone in his own heart. And that God in his heart does not fall below a certain level of human ... He will not allow the dog to kick, offend the old man, badly treated by their parents ... "In these words the whole Leonov. His characters always remain for the audience examples of honesty, kindness, unselfishness, and