He is considered one of the greatest actors of Soviet cinema.
Evgeny Alexandrovich Evstigneev was born in 1926 on October 9 in Nizhny Novgorod in a family of workers. When he was 17, his father died. The young man managed to get secondary education before the Great Patriotic War and in 1941 he got a job as an electrician. Then he worked as a locksmith in the factory. In 1946, the young man entered the Gorky Theatre School, and in 1951 he entered the Vladimir Regional Drama Theatre. In 1954, Evstigneev
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He is considered one of the greatest actors of Soviet cinema.
Evgeny Alexandrovich Evstigneev was born in 1926 on October 9 in Nizhny Novgorod in a family of workers.
When he was 17, his father died. The young man managed to get secondary education before the Great Patriotic War and in 1941 he got a job as an electrician. Then he worked as a locksmith in the factory. In 1946, the young man entered the Gorky Theatre School, and in 1951 he entered the Vladimir Regional Drama Theatre. In 1954, Evstigneev entered the Moscow Art Theater.
The first significant role in 1960 was the work in the play “The Naked King” of the theater “Contemporary”. In 1971, following the example of his colleague.
Welcome, or Forbidden Entry " (1964). In total, the legendary actor has more than 130 roles in movies. The most striking of them are works in the films “Beware of the Car” (1966), “Golden Calf” (1968), “Old Thieves” (1971), “Seventeen Moments of Spring” (1973), “Guardians, Go!” (1988), “Heart of a Dog” (1988). The last film in which Evgeny Alexandrovich played was the film “Ermak” (1996).
Evstigneev’s first wife from 1955 to 1964 was an actress and director.