Gennady Korolkov was born on July 3, 1941, on the very day when Stalin finally addressed the Soviet people - the Great Patriotic War was going on. Gennady’s mother, along with her tiny son in her arms, got into a partisan detachment. She was a fighter, secretary of the Komsomol organization, and Gena shared the military fate of her mother. They managed to survive. . .
After the war, when Korolkov’s father returned from the front, the family moved from the Smolensk region to Lviv. Gennady still in school was fond of theater, and thoughts about the profession of the actor did not leave him later and while working as a locksmith at one of the city factories. He entered the studio at the Lviv Zvegilsky Theatre, but ignorance of the Ukrainian language prevented the young artist. Gennady went to Moscow and, on the third attempt, entered the V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko School-Studio at the Moscow Art Theatre of the USSR.
After graduation, Korolkov could not boast of acting success: he was accepted into the Central Children's Theater and played trifling roles. By that time, he was already married to Fatima, the daughter of the famous filmmaker Nikolai Clado. Only in 1967, Gennady Korolkov came to fame - along with the main role in the film "Three Days of Viktor Chernyshev".
The success of the film allowed Korolkov to go to the troupe of the Mayakovsky Academic Theatre - at the invitation of the main director. For five years, Gennady Anatolyevich worked in the theater successfully, played leading roles, and then left - in protest, when the administrator insulted his friend, Yevgeny Leonov.
Together with his wife Fatima Korolkov moved to the theater "Lenkom", to Mark Zakharov. He was a successful, in-demand actor, which upset his wife - she did not get good roles. When Fatima went to talk to Zakharov, he bluntly stated that she was talentless. The next day Korolkov came to the theater with a statement of resignation.
In 1975, Gennady Anatolyevich was an all-Union celebrity - he played in many movies, detectives and adventure films. His heroes, honest and selfless people, liked the viewer. The highest bid was given to the artist in the theater-studio actor, with which he began to cooperate in 1976.
Good salary, travel abroad, fame. . In the same 1976, Korolkov worked in the Czech Republic, his partner in the film was Zdenka Burdova, a Czech actress. The joint work turned into a stormy short novel. The fact that he has a daughter Lenka, Gennady Anatolyevich learned many years later, when the girl found him through the program “Wait for me.”
In Soviet cinema of that time, Korolkov became famous thanks to the paintings “Because I love”, “They do not change horses at the crossing”, “Alesha”, the series “State Border”,
"Battalions ask for fire" "Hot snow."
In the nineties, when cinema was in decline, Korolkov had to get a job as a wardrobe in a night restaurant at the Screen Actor Theatre. The "gentlemen" gave him a tip, and the artist scurried from these "signs of attention." He had no roles in the theater or in the cinema, and no means of subsistence. The situation changed only when the documentary filmmaker Galina Dolmatovskaya filmed the film “Where did I see it?”: the viewer saw on the screen a wardrobe with a familiar face, and in the finale there were shots from films with the participation of Korolkov. The film shocked filmmakers: the country began to create funds in support of actors.
In the late 90s and in the new century, Gennady Anatolyevich again began to play in movies, but these were unsightly, episodic roles. Son Anton, granddaughter Nastya, daughter Lenka were his consolation. Korolkov’s life ended on February 23, 2007. /