Actor Gurzo Sergei Safonovich: biography, filmography and interesting facts

Despite the fact that not a single Leningrad publishing house reported about his death, this news spread instantly across the Northern capital, and even in Moscow they learned that Gurzo had died Sergei Safonovich (Safronovich). Thousands of fans of his acting talent gathered at the burial ground at the South Cemetery . The heart of the idol of Soviet moviegoers stopped on September 19, 1974, Sergei Gurzo did not live to see his 48th birthday just four days.

Biography of Gurzo Sergei Safonovich: childhood and youth

The future idol of the Soviet adventure cinema of the 50s and 60s was born on September 23, 1926 in the family of the famous Moscow neurologist SI Gurzo and the teacher of the exact sciences of the Musical College. Gnesina N. M. Gurzo. In his childhood Sergei Gurzo was a typical Moscow schoolboy from an intelligent family. School, courtyard games and first love - all like the other teens of the pre-war years. The family of the future actor lived in the communal apartment of the old Moscow house, which is on the Kuznetsky Most in the center of the capital. In addition to Sergei, there were two other children in the family. Sergei Gurzo met the war with a fifteen-year-old boy, and two years later, in 1943, the young man volunteered for the front. A young man was seriously wounded in one of the fights on the territory of Poland in 1944.

Choice of profession

After the recovery of Gurzo, Sergei Safonovich, by decision of the medical commission, is demobilized and returns to Moscow, where the young man has to make a choice of the future profession. Without thinking twice, the young man decides to follow in the footsteps of his uncle, the brother of his mother Nikolai Mikhailovich Kudryavtsev, the leading Moscow actor of the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky. After the first attempt, in 1946, the young man becomes a student of the prestigious theatrical Moscow university - the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography. Boris Bibikov and Olga Pyzhova became his curators of theatrical mastery.

The debut of the student of the acting faculty

A talented young man is immediately given attention, and after a dizzying success in Sergei Gerasimov's film The Young Guard, where one of the young guards of Krasnodon, Sergei Tyulenin, a student of the VGIK Gurzo Sergey plays, the biography of a young man as a movie actor becomes the property of Soviet cinema. Each young film student celebrates his cinematic victory with friends. Twenty-eight years later, Gurzo Sergei Safonovich died in the Leningrad clinic, his health will be shattered by excessive addiction to alcohol. In the meantime, the future of the idol of Soviet cinema seems cloudless.

Sergei Gurzo: biography, roles in the cinema

After the premiere of the film Young Guards, where young theater students played the heroes of the Red Army, and later the most beloved and recognizable actors of the Soviet cinema - Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Nonna Mordyukova, Georgy Yumatov, Inna Makarova and Sergei Gurzo - the actor receives several other proposals From the leading directors of the country. So, in 1950, three films with the participation of a talented actor appear on the screens of Soviet cinemas:

• "Far from Moscow".
• "In Peaceful Days."
• "Courageous people."

The last film was an extraordinary success not only among ordinary citizens of the Land of Soviets, but also among the party top government of the Soviet Union. From now on, Gurzo Sergey Safonovich is in the elite of Soviet cinema, his talent is admired by JV Stalin himself, which makes the actor's way into the cinema completely unhindered.

Interesting Facts

Fate was pleased with Sergei Gurzo, luck, talent and ... Comrade Stalin helped him. In 1947, Joseph Vissarionovich was shown one of the Hollywood westerns. After the lights were turned on in the hall, the leader said: "I did not see the plot in the film, but it is swirling dashingly. Can not our filmmakers create the same film? "The cinematographic committee took the words of the head of government as a guide to action. Soon the preparations for the shooting of the film "Courageous People" began, directed by Konstantin Yudin. The picture had a grandiose success, but the most important thing is that it was highly appreciated by the main spectator of the country. JV Stalin, after watching the feature film "Brave People" said: "People will like this film." More than 41 million viewers collected this film in 1950, which was an absolute indicator in Soviet post-war film distribution.

The star of Soviet cinema of the 50's and 60's

Filming took place in Kislovodsk and Pyatigorsk. The main role of Vasily Govorukhin was played by Gurzo Sergey Safonovich. The filmography of the actor after the release of the film "Brave People" is gaining momentum. Almost every year on the screens of the country go out premiere with his participation:

• 1952 - based on the story of I. Vasilenko's "The Star" on the screens of the country goes a feature film "Towards Life."
• 1953 - "Troubled youth" in the trilogy of V. Belyaev "The Old Fortress".
• 1954 - "The Outpost in the Mountains", K. Yudin's film about Soviet border guards.
• 1956 - Sergei Gurzo plays the main role in the film "Restless Spring".
• 1957 - based on the novel of the same name by N. Ostrovsky, the film "Born by the Storm" was shot.
• 1959 - together with S. Gurzo in the production drama "Everything Begins With the Road" is played by debutants of the cinema - A. Demyanenko and N. Krachkovskaya.
• 1961 - the actor appeared in front of the audience in the image of a charming truck driver in the film I. Kheifits "Horizon".
• 1961 - short film "Diplomat" and film-drama "Two Lives".
• 1962 - Sergei Gurzo starred in the painting "713th asks for a landing."
• 1965 - "Aleshkina Hunt", "The Hippocratic Oath" and "Conspiracy of Ambassadors".
• 1969 - the film "Lovers".

Personal life of an idol

Sergei Gurzo was externally incredibly beautiful and charming young man, which could not fail to pay attention to the fair sex. When he entered the Institute of Cinematography, many girls looked at him, and one of the classmates - Nadezhda Samsonova - liked him. Soon the young people got married, and Sergei Gurzo leads his chosen one into the house on the Kuznetsky Most. Life seemed to be long and happy, young people adored and worshiped each other. In a happy marriage there are two children. Twins Sergey and Natalia Gurzo were born on November 2, 1947. Subsequently, both will become famous actors in theater and cinema.

Divorce and care from the family

Who would have thought that in front of the actor expects a divorce, illness and failure in the movie. A terrible illness - alcoholism - will destroy not only his life, but also the life of his close people. Attachment of Sergei Gurzo to drunken merriment after the release of each picture brought a lot of trouble and grief for the family. He could not do without alcohol anymore.

Relations with his wife grew worse, but this did not stop the public's favorite, he continued to drink, spending his time in numerous companies all new and new "friends." Soon their marriage with Nadezhda Samsonova disintegrates, and Sergei Safonovich goes to Leningrad, where he marries Irina Gubanova, no less popular movie star of the 50-60's. However, because of his addiction, this marriage is doomed to failure.

The artist subsequently has several unregistered marriages, which are fiasco. However, in one of the civil unions, the actor has two daughters, with whom he does not support paternal relations. He is still fascinated by friends with whom you can have a great time. Among the numerous mistresses of Sergei Gurzo were actresses of circus, film and theater. One of them was the famous circus dancer on horse Gitan Leontenko, a beautiful gypsy who managed to charm another celebrity of Soviet cinema - Alexei Batalov, becoming his second and last wife.

Unfulfilled roles and death of the artist

The winner of two Stalin prizes, the favorite of the public Sergei Gurzo in the 50's begins to gradually break down. Colleagues and the family of the actor insist on the treatment of Sergei Safonovich. However, he flatly refuses the help of doctors, continuing to work hard. As much as the actor's love for the cinema was great, his attachment to alcohol attracted him no less. One was beginning to interfere with the other. Frequent frustrations of the actor's schedule of work of the film crew gradually led to the actor's refusal to shoot at the cinema.

In 1957, the film "The Case was in Penkov" was released on the screens of the Soviet Union. Writer S. Antonov, a great admirer of the work of Sergei Gurzo, wrote a script for him specifically and took the manuscript to the film studio. Gorky. The role of the main character - Matvei Morozov - was intended for him, Sergei Safonovich Gurzo. Film director S. Rostotsky removes this film, which later became favorite by millions of viewers, however, the main role in the film is played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov. The reason for the refusal of SS Gurzo in the shooting of the film was obvious - this is his love for the "green snake". Sergei Safonovich realized that the cause of all ills lies in his vicious predilection, but this drank even more.

However, some filmmakers turned a blind eye to the actor's enthusiasm for alcohol and invited Gurzo to take pictures for the prestige of the picture. But all these "masterpieces" were strikingly different from what Sergei Gurzo did in his younger years. In September 1974, the actor once again landed in one of the Leningrad clinics.

Ironically, the father of an actor who worked as a neurologist at the capital's clinic all his life, specialized in curing celebrities of alcoholism. However, this did not help his son. September 19, 1974 burned another star of Soviet cinema - Gurzo Sergei Safonovich. The cause of death is a severe heart attack.