Gennadiy Yukhtin(1932-2022)
- Actor
Gennadiy Yukhtin is a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
At ten years old, the boy was orphaned: his mother died at the front, and his father died of wounds. Gennadiy Yukhtin ended up in a special orphanage for the children of fallen army and navy officers. Later he ended up in the Volga region, where the teacher, a former actress, introduced her pupils to amateur performances. Then Yukhtin was seriously interested in theatrical art, although after secondary school he was going to enter a military school.
Yukhtin entered VGIK with the first attempt. His teachers were Olga Pyzhova and Boris Bibikov. Rufina Nifontova, Izolda Izvitskaya, Tatyana Konyukhova, Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Mayya Bulgakova and Margarita Krinitsyna studied at the same course with Yukhtin. In 1955, young Gennadiy appeared on the screen in the L'affaire Roumiantzev (1956) as a former orphanage, driver Evdokimov, who brought up a boy who accidentally turned out to be his namesake. After filming in the films Chuzhaya rodnya (1956) and Vesna na Zarechnoy ulitse (1956), he was accepted into the State Theater of the Film Actor.
In the films Gennadiy Yukhtin played Soviet people: workers, drivers, engineers, military personnel. At the same time, they played people of a completely different plan: a cruel and cynical saboteur in the film Akvalangi na dne (1966), the pirate Israel Hands in Ostrov sokrovishch (1982), the anarchist conspirator Pshennikov in the film O druzyakh-tovarishchakh (1970). The actor was remembered by the audience in the episodes: for example, playing the role of Ignat in the movie Neulovimye mstiteli (1967).
At ten years old, the boy was orphaned: his mother died at the front, and his father died of wounds. Gennadiy Yukhtin ended up in a special orphanage for the children of fallen army and navy officers. Later he ended up in the Volga region, where the teacher, a former actress, introduced her pupils to amateur performances. Then Yukhtin was seriously interested in theatrical art, although after secondary school he was going to enter a military school.
Yukhtin entered VGIK with the first attempt. His teachers were Olga Pyzhova and Boris Bibikov. Rufina Nifontova, Izolda Izvitskaya, Tatyana Konyukhova, Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Mayya Bulgakova and Margarita Krinitsyna studied at the same course with Yukhtin. In 1955, young Gennadiy appeared on the screen in the L'affaire Roumiantzev (1956) as a former orphanage, driver Evdokimov, who brought up a boy who accidentally turned out to be his namesake. After filming in the films Chuzhaya rodnya (1956) and Vesna na Zarechnoy ulitse (1956), he was accepted into the State Theater of the Film Actor.
In the films Gennadiy Yukhtin played Soviet people: workers, drivers, engineers, military personnel. At the same time, they played people of a completely different plan: a cruel and cynical saboteur in the film Akvalangi na dne (1966), the pirate Israel Hands in Ostrov sokrovishch (1982), the anarchist conspirator Pshennikov in the film O druzyakh-tovarishchakh (1970). The actor was remembered by the audience in the episodes: for example, playing the role of Ignat in the movie Neulovimye mstiteli (1967).
