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Valeriy Ivanovich Velichko
Валерий Иванович Величко
Birth at
26 June 1942
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Valery Velichko was born in 1942 in Sverdlovsk in a working family. His acting fate was not predetermined. After graduation, Valery entered a technical school, and then for several years worked as a fitter-assembler at Uralmash. It would be a “working bone” for him, few people, except for relatives and friends, a famous person. But if there is a “spark of God” in man, it will certainly manifest. In 1961, Valery, unexpectedly for others, entered the theater school in Sverdlovsk. Already in the second
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Valery Velichko was born in 1942 in Sverdlovsk in a working family. His acting fate was not predetermined. After graduation, Valery entered a technical school, and then for several years worked as a fitter-assembler at Uralmash. It would be a “working bone” for him, few people, except for relatives and friends, a famous person. But if there is a “spark of God” in man, it will certainly manifest. In 1961, Valery, unexpectedly for others, entered the theater school in Sverdlovsk.
Already in the second year of the school, Valery Velichko began acting in films. His first film hero was a cadet of the sailor Davydychev in
film "Trace in the ocean" . After graduating from school, Valery worked in the Sverdlovsk Academic Drama Theater. He played more than 70 roles in the plays of classics and contemporaries. Starting from Shakespeare (the priest in Hamlet), Calderon (Ernando in the play “The Lady of the Heart First”), and ending with Vampilov (Kudimov in “The Elder Son”). In the theater repertoire Velichko has leading roles, but more still secondary and episodic. Perhaps because of his comedic role. Comic characters are rarely the main characters of plays. But it is no coincidence that the actor is called the master of the episode. It is often said that there are no small roles, only small actors.
Valery Velichko does not belong to the “small” ones. What would seem to be a simple and imperceptible role of a footman in “The Freeloader”, – just a few runs across the stage, even without the traditional “Eat served”. But the audience saw off the actor with a long standing ovation.
Valery Velichko often stars in films, but his "passion and life" - theatrical stage, not the set. “Cinema is like a card win,” says the actor. Good luck with the director and the role, great. But filming ends, sooner or later. And theatre is forever.”” /