Alexander Andreevich Vokach, an actor of theater and cinema, was born on March 21, 1926 in Moscow in a family of teachers. Mother – Sofia Alexandrovna taught mathematics at school, her father worked as a teacher of physics and mechanics at MIIT.
After graduating from high school in 1943, Alexander became a student of the acting faculty of GITIS, but in 1944, having reached military age, he volunteered for the front, where he heroically manifested himself in the flight troops, worked as an arms
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Alexander Andreevich Vokach, an actor of theater and cinema, was born on March 21, 1926 in Moscow in a family of teachers. Mother – Sofia Alexandrovna taught mathematics at school, her father worked as a teacher of physics and mechanics at MIIT.
After graduating from high school in 1943, Alexander became a student of the acting faculty of GITIS, but in 1944, having reached military age, he volunteered for the front, where he heroically manifested himself in the flight troops, worked as an arms specialist. In 1951 he successfully graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute of Theater Art.
Work acting biography began with Alexander Vokach in 1951, when he began working in the Kurgan regional drama theater. The first twenty years of acting work were given to the provincial theaters of Kurgan and Kalinin. It was then that a special craving for a talented actor for serious, characteristic roles appeared. The most striking, notable roles on the stage of Vokach remained in the performances “The eldest son”, “Do not part with your loved ones”, “Colleagues”, “And in the morning they woke up” and others.
Since 1968, Alexander Vokach has been working as the chief director of the Kalinin Drama Theatre, and in the same year he appears in films. The main role in the comedy “Dacha” brought Vokach incredible fame. The film tells how the main character Egor Petrovich (Vokach) lost the money set aside for the purchase of a dacha. A comedy story leaves no one indifferent.
Film heroes of Alexander Vokacs are mainly foreigners, officials, intelligent people who try to defend their opinion, their position and their place in life by any means. It's Creasy's movie hero in
The Committee of 19 , a millionaire in the film "The Gift to a Millionaire", the Duke of Cornwall in the film "King Lear" by W. Shakespeare, an Englishman in the film "Walking through Torment", the role of Barke in the film "The Escape of Mr. McKinley".
Few people know Alexander Kovac’s special attachment to spinning fishing. It was this passionate passion that gave Kovach minutes, hours for reflection, summing up certain life outcomes, and making plans for the future. Colleagues at work and just friends, acquaintances remembered Alexander Andreevich as a person distinguished by immense warmth, sincerity, decency. Directors appreciated his reliability in the game, even the smallest, minor roles.
After suffering a severe heart attack in 1987, Alexander Kovacs lived for about two years and died on October 1, 1989 in Moscow. /