Sergey Petrovich Ivanov (22.05.1951-25.12.1999) - Soviet film actor, People's Artist of Ukraine (1992), Laureate of the Republican Prize of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Ukraine named after N. Ostrovsky (1980).
Sergey Ivanov was born on May 22, 1951 in Kiev in the family of the famous Ukrainian poet Peter Ivanov. Sergey did not want to use his father’s name. After school, he independently entered the Karpenko-Kary Theatre Institute. The admissions committee noted the excellent ability to recite poems, as well as the amazing plasticity of the incoming person.
Already in the third year, student Ivanov attracted the attention of filmmakers. By the end of the institute in 1972, the young actor had already played several film roles, including work in the following films: “The Kotsyubinsky Family” (1970), “The Stars Don’t Extinguish” (1971), “A Random Address” (1972).
The talented graduate of the Theatre Institute was noticed by the director Leonid Bykov, who invited Sergey to the theater.
Picture "Only old men go to battle" (1973). To get a role in the film Ivanov helped not only talent, but also character. After getting acquainted with the script, he announced to Bykov that he was ready to play and had even chosen the role of “Grasshopper”. Subsequently, Leonid Bykov joked that he chose the actor for the role because of his arrogance.
For Leonid Bykov, the role of the Grasshopper was special, since the pilot nicknamed “The Grasshopper” is the director of the Bulls in his youth. He was very pleased with the performance of this role by Sergey Ivanov. And the actor himself woke up the next morning after the release of the film famous throughout the country.
Working at the Kiev film studio named after Dovzhenko, Sergei Ivanov was a popular actor and very much starred, especially throughout the 70s. Of his works of that period, the following are most remembered by the audience: the musical comedy “Ar-hi-meda!”, the comedy “Day trip of Sergeant Tsybuli”, the heroic drama “Aty-bats, soldiers were walking...” and the famous role of Afinogen Polyugaev in the television series “Born by the Revolution.”
The heroes of Sergei Ivanov are young people full of charm and lively spontaneity, who, for all their superficial seriousness, still remained children. Such a character was Lariosik, one of the main characters in Vladimir Basov’s drama “Days of Turbines”, based on the works of Mikhail Bulgakov. This role became one of the best in the career of Sergei Ivanov.
After the collapse of the USSR film studio. Dovzhenko stopped work, as well as other Republican film studios. The actors were left idle, and many this fact seriously broke. However, this did not happen to Sergei Ivanov. At first, of course, he was also worried, but he did not allow despair. In 1991, Sergey Petrovich directed the film “Honeymoon”, as well as organized and headed the studio “Panorama”.
In addition, Sergei Ivanov was at the origins of the film festival “Youth”, and also began shooting a new television project. The series was supposed to tell about the castles of Western Ukraine. To shoot Sergey Petrovich managed only the first series. The tragic events of recent years, the death of Leonid Bykov affected Ivanov’s health. The heart of a young actor and director could not stand, and on December 25, 1999 Sergey Petrovich died. /