Georgy Pavlovich Menglet is an actor of theater and cinema, was born on September 4, 1912 in Voronezh. His father, Pavel Vladimirovich Menglet was an employee, his mother, Ekaterina Mikhailovna - a housewife. The Russian roots of the Menglet family originate in the nineteenth century, when the captain of the French army, Georgy Menglet (great-grandfather) switched to the Russian side, soon adopting Orthodoxy.
Carefree childhood, youth George passed in his native Voronezh. Playing football, which
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Georgy Pavlovich Menglet is an actor of theater and cinema, was born on September 4, 1912 in Voronezh. His father, Pavel Vladimirovich Menglet was an employee, his mother, Ekaterina Mikhailovna - a housewife.
The Russian roots of the Menglet family originate in the nineteenth century, when the captain of the French army, Georgy Menglet (great-grandfather) switched to the Russian side, soon adopting Orthodoxy.
Carefree childhood, youth George passed in his native Voronezh. Playing football, which was his real boyish passion, meeting friends didn’t take him very long. Later came books, fascination with photography, theater, which, as Menglet recalled, became the main in the process of forming him as a person.
As a schoolboy, George tried himself in the role of an actor, and in this he was incredibly successful. In the Voronezh school, where Menglet studied, the Griboyedov Drama Theater was created, and the talented young man received his first acting lessons on the stage of this theater.
In 1928, Georgy Menglet made his debut as Chatsky in the play “Woe from Wit”. Later there were roles in the productions “The Death of Hope”, “Fruits of Education” and others.
After graduating from school, Georgy first entered GITIS (class A.P. Petrovsky). In parallel with his studies, the future actor began to work in the State Historical and Revolutionary Theater, where he magnificently played in the plays “By Order of His Majesty” by L. Moore, “Chernyshevsky and Alexander II” by N. Lerner, “Windsor pranksters” by W. Shakespeare.
Among Menglet’s works, especially high professionalism was distinguished by roles in the plays “Without Guilty” by N. Ostrovsky, “The Abduction of Helena” by L. Verneille, “Wolves and Sheep” by N. Ostrovsky and many others.
In 1943, Menglet initiated the creation and became the artistic director of the First Front Theater of the Tajik SSR, with whose troupe he traveled many front roads, raising the spirit of the fighters.
At the invitation of B. M. Filippov, a longtime friend of Menglet, he went to work in the theater of Satire, which faithfully served more than fifty years.
Together with his wife, Nina Arkhipova, unsurpassed actors