Victor Kosykh: the most elusive Shchus

This actor became known to the audience after playing only two roles - Kosti Inochkin and Dani Shchusya. It was then that the boy literally "woke up famous." Despite the fact that during his life Victor Kosykh played more than fifty characters, it was the image of Danka that became the main thing in his acting biography.

Childhood and adoption

The future actor Vitya Kosykh (originally - Volkov) was born on January 27, 1950. His mother taught physics at school. Papa Viti died early enough. My mother got married a second time. The stepfather of the boy was the famous actor Ivan Kosykh, who later adopted him. Being already an adult 18-year-old boy, Victor Kosykh changed his middle name and surname. He did it consciously and voluntarily. From Vitya Volkov he was transformed into Vitya Kosykh.

The first steps on the set

When the boy was thirteen years old, his life quickly burst into the cinema. Victor did not hurry to meet new impressions. It all happened quite by accident. One day, the school, whose pupil was Victor Kosykh, was visited by assistant director Elem Klimov. Its purpose was simple: the woman needed to find a boy who could swim well. After all, the director was preparing to shoot a new tape about the children's summer camp. Vitya decided to keep up with his classmates and also came to the test.

Later he remembered with a smile how very loud, with bulging eyes, but with an expression he read the poem to the director. Victor Kosykh, whose films are still watched with pleasure by millions of viewers, was then sure that he passed the tests very badly, even worse than the rest of the guys. To his great surprise, he was asked to stay. He played one episode.

From Marat to Bones

First, the beginning actor was decided to approve the role of Marat - the same boy jumping naked in the thickets of nettle. In general, Vitya arranged everything except one: he did not want to be shot naked. In the time of his adolescence, this moment on the screen could seem like something to the guys: at school they would laugh at him, and classmates would despise him. That's why a little later, when the boy began to try for the role of Bone Inochkin, who also was in the main movie, Victor tried to do everything in his power to the director to approve it.

He tried his best to keep him from jumping into the nettle bushes. Without panties. The boy did it all. Victor Kosykh really was approved for the main role. Only now he had to be denuded in one shot: after the scenario, Kostya, after swimming in the water, stands with his back to the camera and squeezes out the laundry.

Elem Klimov succeeded in combining in his film what was, in general, not possible to connect. On the one hand, the system of the foundations of the life of the children's camp with a strange slogan above the entrance was very similar to detachment camp life under the strict guidance of the state and its attentive eyes. On the other hand, to some extent, the children's perception of the world around the scriptwriters and the subtle flair of the director himself, who afterwards never took such ridiculous pictures, helped to save the tape from seriousness and pretentiousness. And yet, despite the apparent ease of the film, after the first few views, he was removed from the rental, calling it "anti-Khrushchev".

The elusive Danka

In the same year, Victor Kosykh had another role in the drama "The Soldier's Father", where he worked with his stepfather. A year later, he starred in Alexander Mitta in the film "Call, open the door." By 1966, when he was invited by Edmon Keosayan to his new painting, the guy was already recognized. And the director Keosayan conceived a story about the adventures of young heroes of the Civil War. For Vitya Kosykh, the role of the brave boy Danki Shchusya was prepared. Ksanka played Valya Kurdyukova, Gypsy girl Yashka - Vasya Vasiliev, and Valery - an intelligent guy with glasses - Misha Metolkin.

The filming was already in full swing, and the name of the future masterpiece has not yet been invented. Then the director asked the actors themselves to reflect on how they would call this picture. Vitya and Misha came up with a name under which all viewers now know it - "The Elusive Avengers."

The picture, according to the plot of which four children take revenge on the cutthroats of Father Burnas, had an extraordinary success. Over the first year of the rental, over 50 million people became its spectators. Of course, we decided to shoot the sequel: about the new adventures of teenagers, with the same actors. The 1968 film was just as successful. But another part of the trilogy - about saving museum values - was frankly weak. Perhaps, due to the fact that the main characters have grown. What seemed interesting in the children's version, now looked at least strange.

Adult roles in the cinema

Victor Kosykh, whose biography is not similar to the story of a man spoiled with fame, was a student at the Moscow Pogram School, and then - acting faculty of the VGIK. Having received the diploma of the latter, he often acted in films, as a rule, in secondary roles. Such "star" characters, like Danka or Kostya, he has never been. Some of his most famous works are roles in the films "Cold Summer of the Fifty-Three", "The Border Dog of Scarlet," "The Jung of the Northern Fleet" ...

After the reorganization of the actor, it was very rarely invited to the set. His colleagues on the "Welcome" and "Avengers" got a job as janitors, plumbers, handymen ... Only Vasya Vasiliev managed to get out - he became a businessman. In the cinema there were only actors Viktor Kosykh and Mikhail Metolkin, who later became the director of the installation. To survive in a difficult time, Victor had to travel around the country with creative evenings and talk about his roles in the cinema.

In the personal life of the actor was attended by two wives. With his first wife, Victor lived for eighteen years. But realizing that they were tired of each other, in an amicable way, they broke up quietly. For ten years he remained a bachelor, and then there was a meeting with Elena, who worked as an investigator. She was twice younger than him, but they were not embarrassed. The couple married, and in 2001 they had a daughter Katya.

The actor with great warmth remembers how much his life changed with the appearance of this crumb, because he gained not only the second, but also the tenth breath. After a long period of time, he returned to the movies, and one of his new reincarnations was the role of the theater's party director in the "Star of the Epoch". And on December 22, 2011 at 12 o'clock Victor Kosykh died from heart failure - cardiomyopathy.