Sergei Yursky

Sergei Yurievich Yursky (Серге́й Ю́рьевич Ю́рский, 16 March 1935 – 8 February 2019 ) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and screenwriter. His best known film role is Ostap Bender in The Golden Calf (1968)

Biography
Yursky was born in Leningrad, USSR, on 16 March 1935 in the family of Yuri Sergeyevich Yursky. He studied at the Faculty of Law of Zhdanov Leningrad State University.

In 1959 he graduated from Ostrovsky Leningrad Theatrical Institute, Leonid Makaryev's course.

From 1957 till 1979 he was one of the leading actors of Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater in Leningrad. The leading part in Wit Works Woe (1962) by Alexander Griboedov made him one of the most significant actors of his generation. His director's debut Moliere (also known as The Cabal of Hypocrites) by Mikhail Bulgakov in 1977 was highly acclaimed, but was not accepted by Georgy Tovstonogov, and led to Yursky's departure from the theatre.

From 1979, he was an actor and director of Mossovet Theater in Moscow. Also worked as an actor and director in Moscow Art Theatre, as well as in Belgium, France and Japan.

Yursky performed one-man recitals of poetry and prose, touring widely with them in USSR, then Russia and beginning in the 1990s many countries with Russian-speaking population.

Partial filmography

 * 1961: The Man from Nowhere as Chudak
 * 1963: The Serf Actress as Prince Nikita Petrovich Baturin
 * 1965: Time, Forward! as Margulies
 * 1966: The Republic of ShKID as Vicknicksor
 * 1968: The Little Golden Calf as Ostap Bender
 * 1969: Intervention as Masks
 * 1969: King Stag as Tartaglia
 * 1976: The Darvish Detonates Paris as Musje Jordan
 * 1979: The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (TV Mini-Series) as Gruzdev
 * 1979: Little Tragedies (TV Mini-Series) as Improviser
 * 1983: Look for a Woman (TV Movie) as notary Rochet
 * 1984: Love and Pigeons as Uncle Mitya
 * 1987: The End of Eternity as Computer Hobbe Finge
 * 2006: Master and Margarita  as Berlioz (voice, uncredited)
 * 2007: Korolyov as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Awards

 * 1968: Honoured Artist of the RSFSR
 * 1987: People's Artist of the RSFSR
 * 1991: Kinotavr Grand Prize in feature films
 * 2000: Pushkin Medal
 * 2005: Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of IV degree
 * 2010: Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" of III degree