Ivan Krasko (actor)

Ivan Ivanovich Krasko (Иван Иванович Краско; born September 23, 1930) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and writer. He was named a People's Artist of Russia (1992).

Biography
He studied acting at Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, graduating in 1961.

From 1961 to 1965 he was a member of the troupe at Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater in Leningrad. From 1965 to the present he has been a member of the troupe at Komissarzhevskaya Theatre under the leadership of a notable director Ruben Agamirzyan. There his stage partners were such actors as Galina Korotkevich, Georgi Korolchuk, Stanislav Landgraf, Mikhail Khrabrov, Yelena Safonova, and Petr Shelokhonov.

His son, Andrey Krasko was also a notable Russian actor.

In 2009, Ivan Krasko co-authored a book of memoirs titled "My Вest Friend Petr Shelokhonov", where he wrote about his best friend Petr Shelokhonov and their partnership on stage, in films, and in life.

Filmography

 * In S. City (1966) – writer
 * The Prince and the Pauper (1972) – Miles Hendon
 * Squadron of Flying Hussars (1980) – colonel Ustimovich
 * True of Lieutenant Klimov (1981) – staff officer
 * Semyon Dezhnev (1983) – merchant Guselnikov
 * The Hobbit (1985) – Gandalf
 * The Last Road (1986) – captain Rakeyev
 * Mister Designer (1988) – servant
 * Afghan Breakdown (1991) – colonel Viktor Nikolayevich
 * A Beautiful Stranger (1992) – Grigori Rasputin
 * The White Horse (1993) – American
 * You Exist... (1993) – traditional healer
 * Marigolds in Flower (1998) – bum
 * Streets of Broken Lights 2 (1999) – Pavel Levitin "Contrabass"
 * Empire Under Attack (2000) – elder Kondraty
 * Peculiarities of the National Hunt in Winter Season (2000) – Vladimir Lenin the rescuer
 * Little Longnose (2003) – the King (voice)
 * Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin Zmey (2004) – Svyatogor (voice)
 * Streets of Broken Lights 6 (2004) – Ivan Ivanovich
 * Brezhnev (2005) – collective farm chairman
 * Female Novel (2005) – Vladislav Petrovich
 * The Master and Margarita (2005) – taxi driver
 * Taras Bulba (2009) – Kasyan Bovdyug
 * Fortress of War (2010) – narrator
 * Peter the Great: The Testament (2011) – old man
 * The Admirer (2012) – Leo Tolstoy
 * The White Guard (2012) – Maksim

Awards and honors

 * Honored Artist of the RSFSR (December 20, 1976)
 * People's Artist of Russia (February 21, 1992; first artist to receive that title)
 * Order of Honour (2010)
 * Jubilee Medal "70 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
 * Golden Mask (2018)

Family

 * First wife (1951–1955) — Yekaterina Ivanova. One daughter Galina
 * Second wife (1956–1997) — Kira Petrova. Two children: son — actor Andrey Krasko, daughter Julia Svekrovskaya-Krasko (born 1966)
 * Third wife (2001–2011) — Natalia Vyal. Two sons: Ivan and Fyodor
 * Fourth wife (2015–2018) — Natalia Shevel (born 1990)