Nikolai Parfyonov is a Soviet and Russian actor, whose biography fell many episodic, but well-remembered roles. The most famous films with his participation were “Two Comrades Served”, “Come to Me, Mukhtar!”, “Afonya” and others.
Biography
Nikolai Parfyonov was born in 1912 in the small village of Sergiev Gorky, Vladimir Region. His family was large, but well-to-do: the father of the future actor managed to get a sailor on a large ship, having made a decent fortune on this. Even the revolution of 1917 did not stop: after it, the enterprising head of the family headed the flax-mill, but soon died suddenly.
The family left without a breadwinner suffered a new grief in the form of the coming dispossession of peasants. Mother and children were separated, resettled by distant relatives. Once in Moscow, Nikolai Ivanovich worked at the factory, but in the end decided to enter the theater school, which he did. After graduation, the young actor began working at the Theater. Moscow City Council. For many years he worked on stage. Especially good, the actor has always been given comedic roles.
In 1944, Nikolai Parfyonov made his film debut, starring in the movie "Native Fields." Then several little-known paintings followed, and the first general recognition came to the actor after filming in the film "Come to Me, Mukhtar!" in 1964. In the future, practically no famous comedy could do without Parfyonov’s participation. It can be seen in such films as “Watch out for the car”, “Athos”, “The very last day”, “Wizards” and others.
The last film with the actor’s participation was Leonid Gaidai’s comedy “The weather is nice on Deribasovskaya
". After that, Nikolai Parfyonov could no longer act because of his age. Despite the fact that Nikolai Ivanovich always tried to lead a healthy lifestyle, he began to have serious problems with his body in his old age and died on January 7, 1999 due to hemorrhage in brain: Any actor was buried at the Khimki cemetery.