Many fans and true fans of Yuri Nikulin are familiar with his biography in the cinema, but not everyone knows about the actor’s childhood and his first steps in the cinema. What was Nikulin's fate and what roles made him famous?
General biography
Yuri Nikulin, a Jew by birth, was born in the Smolensk region, in the city of Demidov. While Yuri was small, the whole family went to Moscow, where the future actor was in school 346. Yuri began working in local newspapers, creating reprise for the circus and theater.
He studied medium, received a lot of comments because of his behavior. Let him have not the best memory, it was the comedic roles he played perfectly.
After the school was just around the corner, Nikulin went into the army, where he spent seven years. He served in the anti-aircraft artillery regiment, fought near Leningrad and received shell concussion.
The beginning of acting
After the army, Nikulin decided to follow the parental path and build a career as a successful comedian. Yuri was convinced of his great future, because from childhood my father will be able to awaken the actor’s talent in him.
In 1946, Nikulin sent documents for admission to VGIK. He was refused, but advised to go to the theater. Then Yuri sent documents to GITIS and the Shchepkin School. They refused him there, but soon they took him to the Noginsk Theater.
In the studio at the Noginsk Theater, Jura did not study for long - as soon as it became known that the circus was recruiting people to work as clowns, Yuri went there. Mom was categorically against it, but my father said it was worth a try. There, Yura became a clown, and in 1948, namely October 25, he performed for the first time.
Love
In the same 1948, Nikulin met Tatyana Pokrovskaya, with whom he lived until his death. Tatyana loved horse riding, and the academy had a stable, which the girl often visited. And once a foal with very short legs was born. Clown Pencil and Nikulin came to look at the foal and take it to themselves.
Yuri invited Tatyana to the play, but during the performance he fell under a horse and was injured. Tatiana, feeling guilty, visited Yuri in the hospital. Six months later, the young married. After 8 years, Nikulin became a father - they had Maxim born.
Movie
The first role was shown by Nikulin’s entire talent - he starred in the episode of the film “Girl with a Guitar”, played the role of a pyrotechnician who tried to show fireworks. The episode with his participation was the funniest in the film, so immediately after it Yuri Chelyukin turned to Yuri, offering to star in the film "The Defiant."
But fame came after a short film about Dog Barbosa and an extraordinary cross. It was shot by the notorious Leonid Gaidai in the first half of the 60s. The director said that Nikulin is best suited for the role of Dunce.
True, at that time Yuri was busy in the circus, but Leonid took this with understanding, so he corrected the time of filming. After that, the tape "Moonshiners" appeared, and other films went there.
