Yuriy Nikulin
Acting • Born 1921-12-18 – Died 1997-08-21
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin (Russian: Юрий Владимирович Никулин; 18 December 1921 – 21 August 1997) was a well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown who starred in many popular films. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1973 andHero of Socialist Labour in 1990. He also received a number of state awards, including the prestigious Order of Lenin, which he received twice in his lifetime. Nikulin's effortless style and precise delivery, as well as his mastery of timing and his hilarious masks made him an outstanding comedian, arguably the best Russian comedian ever. Nikulin showed his range in a variety of genres from slapstick comedy to romance and war drama. His most popular film partners were Georgiy Vitsin, Yevgeni Morgunov,Natalya Varley, Rolan Bykov, Anatoli Papanov, Sergei Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Leonid Kuravlyov, Andrey Mironov, Evgeni Evstigneev, Vasili Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergei Bondarchuk, Nikolay Burlyaev, Viktor Pavlov, Boris Novikov Vladimir Etush, Saveli Kramarov, Nikolai Grinko, and many other notable Russian actors. In the ring, Nikulin presented a phlegmatic temperament, slow and unsmiling, and to many in the West his personality was reminiscent of the great silent film comedian Buster Keaton. Rich in mimicry, doleful of expression, Nikulin was hailed as “a brainy clown” outside Russia. Simple in style and gentle with children, his only vestiges of make-up were a reddened nose and black lines around his eyes, much different from the grotesquely painted faces of Western clowns. Nikulin, affectionately called Uncle Yury by Russian children, relied mainly upon his wits to earn his place in history as one of the best clowns of the 20th century.
Filmography
46 credits
Andrei Rublev
Movie • 1966
Patrikey
The Diamond Arm
Movie • 1969
Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
Movie • 1965
«Балбес»
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
Movie • 1967
Balbes
12 Chairs
Movie • 1971
дворник Тихон
Here, Not Far Away
Movie • 1979
Bootleggers
Movie • 1962
«Балбес»
Scarecrow
Movie • 1983
Nikolay Bessoltsev - Lena's grandfather
Old Men: Robbers
Movie • 1972
Николай Мячиков
Give Me a Complaints Book
Movie • 1964
продавец
Seven Old Men and One Girl
Movie • 1968
грабитель («Балбес»)
The Taming of the Shrew
Movie • 1961
Boys' Choir Master
Bobik Visiting Barbos
Movie • 1977
Bobik (voice)
When the Trees Were Tall
Movie • 1961
Kuzma Kuzmich Iordanov
Голубой огонек - в первый час
Movie • 1965
Self
Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross
Movie • 1961
«Балбес»
Come Here, Mukhtar!
Movie • 1964
Glasychev
They Fought for Their Motherland
Movie • 1975
pvt. Nekrasov
Sovershenno seryozno
Movie • 1961
«Балбес» (новелла «Пёс Барбос и необычный кросс»)
My Friend, Kolka!
Movie • 1961
Vasya
A Girl with Guitar
Movie • 1958
Pyromancer Loser
Point, Point, Comma...
Movie • 1972
Alexey's father
Young-Green
Movie • 1962
Nikolai
Deniska's Stories
Movie • 1970
сосед Дениски из похожего дома
Twenty Days Without War
Movie • 1976
Major Vasily Nikolaevich Lopatin
Captain Krokus
Movie • 1991
introductory and concluding remarks
The Man from Nowhere
Movie • 1961
Militsioner (uncredited)
The Little Runaway
Movie • 1966
Fantasizing
Movie • 1965
The Adventures of Travka
Movie • 1976
Telegram
Movie • 1972
Fyodor Fyodorovich
I Don't Want to Be a Grown-Up
Movie • 1982
Kloun
The Unamenables
Movie • 1959
Vasily Klyachkin
No Fear, No Blame
Movie • 1962
clown
New Girl
Movie • 1969
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
Movie • 1976
Himself
Big "Wick"
Movie • 1964
Петя-Петушок (нлвелла «Влип»)
Strictly Business
Movie • 1963
thief (story «Makes the Whole World Kin»)
Parad-Alle
Movie • 1971
Clowns and Children
Movie • 1977
To Remember
TV • 1993
Narrator
Как уходили кумиры
TV • 2005
Himself / ArchiveFootage
Yeralash
TV • 1974
Fuse
TV • 1962
Легенды кино
TV • 2016
Self (archive footage)
Клуб «Белый попугай»
TV • 1993