Mikhail Ulyanov (actor)


Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov was a Soviet and Russian actor who was one of the most recognized persons of the post-World War II Soviet theatre and cinema. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1969, a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1986, and received a special prize from the Venice Film Festival in 1982.
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Biography

Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov spent his childhood and youth in the town of Tara, Omsk Oblast. Although he had failed his exams in Schepkinskoe School and for the Moscow Art Theatre School, he moved to Omsk in 1944 to become an actor. After two years of studies in the studio at Omsk Drama he went to Moscow and entered the Schukin Theatre School in 1946.
Ulyanov worked in the Vakhtangov Theatre from 1950 and directed it from 1987. He played a wide range of characters on stage, with Rogozhin in Dostoevsky's Idiot being the most remarkable of them. In 1979 he staged Vasily Shukshin's epic novel I have come to give you freedom, where he starred as Stepan Razin. In 1985 Mikhail Ulyanov staged the satirical pamphlet The Child Buyer by the American playwright John Hersey.
As regards movies, he was frequently cast in the parts of staunch Communist leaders like Vladimir Lenin and Marshal Zhukov. His well-known character Yegor Trubnikov in Predsedatel became a Soviet classic and his most emblematic role.
The Brothers Karamazov, a 1969 film he co-directed, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival. He also starred in Tema and Private Life, the films that won top awards at the Berlin Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, respectively.
More recently, he was acclaimed for the roles of Julius Caesar in the screening of Shakespeare's play, Pontius Pilate in the film adaptation of The Master and Margarita, and an avenging veteran marksman in The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment, directed by Stanislav Govorukhin. He died on March 26, 2007, of intestinal disease.

Selected filmography

They Were the First as Aleksey KolyvanovEkaterina Voronina as SutyrinThe House I Live In as Dmitry Fedorovich KashirinVolunteers as Nikolai KaitanovSoldiers Walked... as YegorCity at Dawn as BelousKnock On Any Door' as [Mikhail ProkhorovA Simple Story as Andrey Egorovich DanilovBaltic Skies as RassokhinBattle on the Way as Dmitriy BakhiryevYoung and Green as LizlovThis Happened in the Рolice Station Silence as Pyotr Ivanovich BykovThe Alive and the Dead as Sergei Filippovich, Army CommanderThe Chairman as Yegor TrubnikovSolange Leben in mir ist as FrolowFrozen Flashes as general Alexander GorbatovThe Brothers Karamazov as Dmitri KaramazovUnterwegs zu Lenin as LeninLiberation as Marshall Georgy ZhukovThe Flight as general Gregory Lukyanovich CharnotaAnflug Alpha I as General ArkatowTrotz alledem! as LeninThe Sea is on Fire as ZhukovYegor Bulychyov and Others as Yegor BulychovThe Last Day as Semyon KolvalyovSiege of Leningrad as ZhukovTake Aim as Georgy ZhukovThe Legend of Til as KlaasSoldiers of Freedom as ZhukovCall Me from Afar as NikolayWrong Connection as Ignat Maksimovich NurkovThe Theme as Kim Yesenin, writerThe Last Escape as KustovFebruary Wind as FilimonovFacts of the Рast Day as MikheevPrivate Life as Sergei Nikitich AbrikosovWithout Witness as HeIf the Enemy Doesn't Give Up... as ZhukovDay of Commander of Divisions as ZhukovVictory as ZhukovMarshal Zhukov, biography pages as ZhukovBattle of Moscow as ZhukovChoice as Vladimir VasilyevThe Law as ZhukovOur Armed Train Stalingrad as ZhukovHouse under the Starry Sky as Andrey Nikolaevich Bashkirtsev, academicianI Myself am a Vyatka Native as Alexandr KirpikovThe Master and Margarita as Pontius PilateCooperative "Politburo", or It Will Be A Long Goodbye as Ivan IvanovichEverything Will Be Fine! as GrandpaGreat Commander Georgy Zhukov as ZhukovPoor Liza as Liza's dadComposition for Victory Day as DyakovThe Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment as Ivan Fyodorovich AfoninNorthern Lights as Old man in the country houseAntikiller as Father, criminal boss

Honours and awards

Ulyanov has won the following awards: