Rudolf Davydovich Furmanov was born on October 22, 1938 in Leningrad. Graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, in 1962-1964 he studied at the Theatre Faculty of the Leningrad Theatre Institute named after A.N. Ostrovsky. From 1958 to 1988. Rudolf Furmanov was the author and director of concert tour programs of outstanding figures of theater and cinema: Nikolai Simonov, Arkady Raikin, Georgy Tovstonogov, Vadim Medvedev, Andrei Mironov, Evgeny Leonov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky. As an actor,
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Rudolf Davydovich Furmanov was born on October 22, 1938 in Leningrad. Graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, in 1962-1964 he studied at the Theatre Faculty of the Leningrad Theatre Institute named after A.N. Ostrovsky. From 1958 to 1988. Rudolf Furmanov was the author and director of concert tour programs of outstanding figures of theater and cinema: Nikolai Simonov, Arkady Raikin, Georgy Tovstonogov, Vadim Medvedev, Andrei Mironov, Evgeny Leonov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky. As an actor, he performed on the stage as a permanent partner of Vadim Medvedev and Anatoly Papanov. In 1988, Rudolf Furmanov founded in St. Petersburg the first Russian contract repertory theater "Russian Entreprise" named after A. Mironov and became its director and artistic director. The troupe of this theater includes more than 100 of the largest artists of Moscow and St. Petersburg, including Yuri Yakovlev, Lyudmila Chursina, Nikolai Trofimov, Leonid Nevedsky, Andrei Tolubeev, Valery Degtyar, Valery Kuhareshin. The repertoire of the theater has more than 27 performances, many of which have become laureates and nominees of prestigious theater awards. As a director, Rudolf Furmanov staged the plays Revelations of Innocent Smoktunovsky. (1992), Balagan in a coat and without a coat (1996), Passion according to Vertinsky (1997), Mad Day, or Non-Provincial Benefit (2000), Pull the strap until you dig a hole (2001), Oh, my buffoon, I'm going mad" (2001, co-authored with V. Degtyar), "Oh, what an amazing game it was (2001)! In the 2002/2003 season, he successfully played the role of lawyer Mertens in the play Valery Grishko “Wizard” based on the novel by E. Wallace. As an actor of cinema and television Rudolf Furmanov played more than 30 roles; among the most famous films - "Circus burned, clowns fled", TV series Dmitry Svetozarov "Agent of national security" (Filaret), "Baron" (Vota), "Dancer". In 1999-2001 he was the author and presenter of the television series of St. Petersburg television "I still have addresses", dedicated to the great masters of the stage: N. Simonov, S Filippov, V. Medvedev, I. Smoktunovsky, E. Lebedev, G. Tovstonogov, Vl. Strzhelchik and others.
Author of the book "From the life of a mad entrepreneur" (1998).