According to all the initial data, this person was ordered to go to the stage. However, overcoming natural problems and formal barriers, he made his way to the intended goal. Georgy Burkov enjoyed the love of the audience as an "actor from the people."
Starting conditions
Many viewers identify the personality of an actor with the character he represents on stage or on screen. According to the established canons, brawlers, jokers, idiots and drunks very often set off a positive hero. Georgy Ivanovich Burkov systematically presented just such characters to the audience. This is not to say that this was his main role. The actor's track record includes a variety of personalities, whom he portrayed according to the director's idea - deep and petty, quick and slow, smart and not so much.
The future theater and film actor was born on May 31, 1933 in an ordinary Soviet family. Parents lived in the famous city of Perm. My father worked as an engineer at an engineering plant. The mother was engaged in housekeeping and raising her son. The boy grew up calm and reasonable. I learned the letters early and became addicted to reading. When Gaucher was six years old, he fell seriously ill. The doctors performed several operations, but did not achieve a positive result. Then the mother took the boy home and began to treat with folk remedies. The disease has receded.
Professional activity
Georgy studied well at school. I read a lot. He loved going to the cinema and the local theater. In high school, he even studied in a drama studio. Having received a certificate of maturity, at the insistence of his parents, Burkov entered the law faculty of Perm University. But after boring lectures, he hurried to classes in the evening studio at the local drama theater. The pretense and the process of reincarnation carried away and attracted George with irresistible force. Naturally, he tried to enter the theater school, but due to a speech impediment, he was told to leave.
Striving for the set goal has done its job. Burkov was accepted into the troupe of one of the regional theaters. Time passed and finally the promising actor was noticed. They noticed and invited to the Moscow Stanislavsky Theater. In the capital, the actor had to work at the Moscow Art Theater, and at Sovremennik, and at the Pushkin Theater. The textured actor was regularly invited to act in films. His roles in the films "Old robbers", "Khmyr", "Red Kalina" remained in the memory of the audience for a long time.
Recognition and privacy
Georgy Burkov worked a lot. He acted in films and appeared on the theatrical stage. For his great contribution to the development of theatrical art, he was awarded the honorary title "Honored Artist of the RSFSR". The actor dreamed of a director's career, but did not manage to realize his projects.
The personal life of the honored artist has developed well. All his adult life he lived in marriage with Tatyana Sergeevna Ukharova. The husband and wife raised and raised their daughter. Georgy Burkov died suddenly of thrombophlebitis in July 1990.
