1. Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev was a Soviet and Russian actor.
15 Facts About Yury Yakovlev
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Yury Yakovlev was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1976.
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Yury Yakovlev is best known for his roles in late Soviet film, particularly for his roles in Eldar Ryazanov's and Leonid Gaidai's comedies.
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Yury Yakovlev played dramatic roles, such as inimitable complicated psychological role of the Prince Myshkin in The Idiot, and other cinema roles.
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Yury Yakovlev was the leading artist of the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre during its heyday.
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Yury Yakovlev joined the ensemble of the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre in 1952.
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Yury Yakovlev played over seventy roles onstage, including Casanova in Three Ages of Casanova, Duke Bolingbroke in Glass of Water, and Prokofiev in Lessons of Master.
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Yury Yakovlev became really famous as a cinema actor in 1958, after his inimitable complicated psychological role of the Prince Myshkin in The Idiot directed by Ivan Pyryev.
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Yury Yakovlev achieved international fame playing the role as Prince Myshkin.
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Yury Yakovlev made his first appearance in an Eldar Ryazanov comedy in 1961, in The Man From Nowhere.
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Yury Yakovlev followed his first success with regular appearances in Ryazanov's comedies, most notably splendid film Hussar Ballad in 1962, in which he played phantasmagoric role of Poruchik Rzhevsky.
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Yury Yakovlev felt ill in early morning of 29 November 2013.
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Yury Yakovlev was rushed to a Moscow hospital where he died there on 30 November 2013 from heart failure, aged 85.
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Farewell to Yuri Vasilyevich Yury Yakovlev will take place on the main stage of the Vakhtangov Theater on Tuesday at 10.00, and the artist will be buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
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In 1997, the publishing house Art published a book by Yury Yakovlev entitled Album of my destiny.