Many viewers are looking for a role model in the images presented on the screen. Millions of Soviet citizens watched the cinematic fate of Lev Zolotukhin. And the actor did not disappoint his fans.
Starting conditions
According to seasoned critics, each actor in his work tends to a certain type and role. Some play kings more often, while others play buffoons. Lev Fedorovich Zolotukhin appeared on the screen many times in military uniform. Tall. Stately. With a proud head and shoulders straightened. He was very convincingly embodied in the images of generals and marshals, Cossacks and hussars. However, this is only one of the components of the actor's creative role.
In the short creative biography of Zolotukhin, there are both main roles and episodic ones.
The future film actor was born on July 29, 1926 in a family of employees. Parents lived in Moscow. My father worked as an engineer at a design institute. The mother was engaged in sewing women's dresses. The boy grew up and matured in the yard. He was no different from his peers. From an early age he loved to go to the cinema on weekends. At first, together with their parents, and with age, already independently. At school, Lev studied well. Once he got into the classroom of a theater studio, which operated in the house of pioneers. And he began to comprehend the basics of acting.
Professional activity
After school, at the insistence of his parents, Zolotukhin entered the shipbuilding institute. The reasoning was simple and weighty - a man must have a "correct" specialty. Only for one semester Leo had enough endurance. He dropped out of the institute and, in order to get an acting education, entered the Moscow Art Theater School. In 1949 he received a diploma and went to Leningrad to serve in the Comedy Theater. The young actor was received kindly and from the first days he was “loaded” with work in repertoire performances. The load turned out to be significant, but Zolotukhin coped with it.
In 1954, the already held actor was invited to the stage of the famous Moscow Art Theater. Zolotukhin returned to Moscow and organically "fit" into the creative process. He played significant roles in the productions of Dead Souls, Days of the Turbins, The Brothers Karamazov, At the Bottom. At some point, Lev Fedorovich began to be invited to shoot a movie. The list of projects in which Zolotukhin took part includes almost forty films. The actor was remembered by the audience in the films "Ilyich's Outpost", "Hot Snow", "Shot in the Back", "Christians".
Recognition and privacy
Lev Zolotukhin's acting career was quite successful. For many years and fruitful work in the development of culture and art, he was awarded the title "Honored Artist of the RSFSR". With his multifaceted talent, he continues to delight viewers from the screen.
Little is known about the actor's personal life. At one time, he entered into a legal marriage with an actress who worked nearby. For several years the husband and wife lived under the same roof. They had a son named Mitya. But the birth of a child did not save the family from disintegration. After that, Zolotukhin lived alone. The actor died suddenly in June 1988.
