People's Artist of the RSFSR Vasily Livanov is today the real embodiment of a talented actor, director and screenwriter. The successor of the creative dynasty made an invaluable contribution to domestic cinema and won the hearts of millions of Soviet and Russian fans.
The star galaxy of Soviet and Russian theater and cinema actors of the older generation rightfully includes Vasily Livanov. And his character Sherlock Holmes in the cult television series based on Arthur Conan Doyle forever entered the Golden Fund of domestic cinema.
Short biography of Vasily Livanov
The future People's Artist of the RSFSR was born in Moscow on July 19, 1935 in a creative metropolitan family (father Boris Livanov - People's Artist of the USSR, mother - artist). In the friendly and hospitable Livanov family, the creative Moscow elite always gathered, among which regulars included Boris Pasternak, Vasily Kachalov, Alexander Dovzhenko and Peter Konchalovsky.
In his school years, Vasily attended the “artist” at the USSR Academy of Arts, but heredity prevailed, and in 1954 he entered the Shchukin Theater School. It is noteworthy that the graduation performance "Three Fat Men" Livanov Jr. staged with independent decoration.
And then there were courses at the Goskino of the USSR with Mikhail Romm and a second diploma in directing, work on the stage of the Yevgeny Vakhtangov Theater during the year, acting debut in the dramatic movie "Unsent Letter" by Mikhail Kalatozov, a short stay at the actor’s Studio Theater and the first director’s work - animated film for children "The most, the most, the most."
Behind the shoulders of the People's Artist of the RSFSR are dozens of significant scenarios for feature and animated films. The rich acting life of Vasily Livanov today can be eloquently evaluated by his filmography: Unsent Letter (1959), Blind Musician (1960), Colleagues (1962), Court of Madmen (1962), Blue Notebook (1963), “Big and Small” (1963), “Return of Veronica” (1964), “Year as Life” (1965), “Player” (1972), “Star of Captivating Happiness” (1975), “Yaroslavna, Queen of France” (1978), Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979), Don Quixote Returns (1997), The Master and Margarita (2005), The Male Season. Velvet Revolution (2006), Bear Hunt (2008).
In 2006, the People's Artist of the RSFSR was awarded an honorary award - the Order of Queen Elizabeth II of England, and in 2007 a monument to Holmes and Watson was erected at the British Embassy. The talented sculptor Andrei Orlov endowed the cult characters with the faces of Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin. Since 2008, a popular artist stopped acting in films, explaining this decision by excessive amounts of sex and violence on the screens.
