Bohdan Stupka
Bohdan Sylvestrovych Stupka was a Ukrainian actor and minister of culture of Ukraine. He was born in Kulykiv, General Government to Ukrainian parents. In 2001, he was a member of the jury at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival. At the 26th Moscow International Film Festival he won the award for Best Actor for his role in Our Own.
Stupka played in more than a hundred roles in films and over fifty in theaters. Stupka was awarded the titles Merited Artist of Ukraine, People's Artist of the USSR, and Hero of Ukraine.
Bohdan Stupka was buried in Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv.
His son Ostap Stupka is also an actor.
Awards
- Kyiv Pectoral Award in the category "Best Male Role", play by Irena Kowal:
- Golden Aries Award in the category "Best Male Role"
- Silver George prize of the Moscow International Film Festival "Best Male Role"
- Golden [Eagle Award (Russia)|Golden Eagle Award] in the category "Best Supporting Actor"
- Nika Award in the nomination "Best Male Role"
- Golden Eagle Award in the category "Best Male Role in Cinema"
- Golden Eagle Award in the category "Best Supporting Actor"
Selected filmography
- 1971: White Bird with Black Mark as Orest
- 1971: Insight as Yuriy Morozenko
- 1972: Contrary to Everything as Simeon
- 1973: The [Last Day (1972 film)|The Last Day] as Valera
- 1973: Housewarming as Danko
- 1975: Waves of the Black Sea as Troyan
- 1977: The Right for Love as Yakov
- 1979: Forget the Word "Death"' as Ivan Ostrovoy
- 1980: Dudaryky as Leontovich
- 1980: Otherwise it is Impossible as master Petushkov
- 1981: From the Bug to the Vistula as conjurer
- 1982: Red Bells II as Kerensky
- 1982: Secrets of St. George as Oleksa
- 1983: Whirlpool as Ioska Vikhor
- 1984: Everything Starts with Love as Antonyuk
- 1984: Stolen Happiness as Mikhailo Zadorozhny
- 1986: Start an Investigation as Stasenko
- 1987: Daniel, Prince of Galicia as Sudich
- 1988: Stone Soul as Sergey Muratov
- 1988: Dress Rehearsal as Vasili Gogol-Yanovsky
- 1990: Nikolai Vavilov as Trofim Lysenko
- 1991: Kremlin Secrets of the 16th Century as Boris Godunov
- 1991: The Sin as Stalynskiy
- 1992: For Home Fire as Hirsch, police officer
- 1992: God, Forgive Us Sinners as Tsibukin
- 1992: Four Sheets of Plywood, or Two Murders in a Bar as police colonel
- 1992: Taras Shevchenko. Testament as host
- 1993: The Gray Wolves as Vladimir Semichastny
- 1993: Fuchzhou as Matvii Kosht
- 1993: The Road to Paradise as academician Vladimir Naumovich Lerner
- 1993: Trap as Stalsky
- 1995: Single Player as Pavel Kondratievich
- 1995: Gelli and Nok as Gutan
- 1996: Judenkreis, or Eternal Wheel as Liberzon
- 1999: With [Fire and Sword (film)|With Fire and Sword] as Bohdan Chmielnicki
- 1999: East/West as colonel Boyko
- 1999: Chinese Service as Lapsin
- 2002: A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa as Hetman Mazepa
- 2003: An Ancient Tale: [When the Sun Was a God] as Popiel
- 2004: Our Own as Ivan Blinov
- 2004: A Driver for Vera as general Serov
- 2005: Stealing Tarantino as Feliks Dobrzhansky
- 2006: Rabbit Over the Void as Leonid Brezhnev
- 2007: Two in One as Andrei
- 2007: Three and Snowflake as Andrew's Father
- 2007: 18-14 as Vasily Malinovsky
- 2008: Sappho as professor Orlov
- 2008: Alexander as prince Yaroslav
- 2008: Serce na dloni as Konstanty
- 2009: Taras Bulba as Taras Bulba
- 2009: Insight as old man
- 2010: Chantrapas as ambassador Firsov
- 2010: Ivanov as Pavel Kirillyich Lebedev
- 2010: Platon Anhel as Platon Nikitich Anhel
- 2011: Brothel Lights as Zaslavsky
- 2011: Home as Grigory Ivanovich Shamanov
- 2011: Rejection as Ivan Pavlovich
- 2013: Podporuchik Romashov as Shulgovich
- 2015: 12 Months. New Fairy Tale as December
Commemoration
- Streets in the cities of Vinnytsia, Bucha, [Kyiv Oblast|Bucha], Boryspil, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, Synelnykove, Tavriisk, Pokrovsk, and Sloviansk are named in his honor.
- Asteroid 269252 Bohdanstupka, discovered on the night of Bohdan Stupka's 67th birthday at the Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory, was named in his honor.
- On October 5, 2016, Ukrposhta introduced into circulation a postage stamp dedicated to Bohdan Stupka, and the first day covers were canceled with a special commemorative stamp in Lviv and Kyiv post offices.
- On the occasion of the actor's 75th birthday in 2016, the Bohdan Stupka Museum Room was opened in the building of the People's House in Kulykiv.
- For the 76th anniversary of his birthday in 2017, a bust of Bohdan Stupka was installed near the building of the People's House in Kulykiv, Zhovkva district, Lviv Oblast.
- On August 27, 2021, on the occasion of the actor's 80th birthday, a bas-relief and a memorial plaque with a miniature sculpture were unveiled on Mary Zankovetska Street in Kyiv.
- In May 2022, in the city of Horodok, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Tukhachevsky Street was renamed Bohdan Stupka Street.