Yuri Sarantsev

Yuri Dmitriyevich Sarantsev (Ю́рий Дми́триевич Сара́нцев; 7 October 1928 – 24 August 2005) was a Soviet and Russian actor who appeared in numerous films between 1950 and 1999. He is most known for the 1962 sci-fi film Planeta Bur. He was also an accomplished voice actor, most famous for providing the voice for Ostap Bender in The Twelve Chairs (1971). People's Artist of Russia (2000).

Filmography

 * The Village Doctor (1951) – cook (uncredited)
 * True Friends (1954) – Seryozha
 * Road to Life (1955) – Grisha Burun
 * Good Morning (1955) – Vasya Plotnikov
 * Different Fortunes (1956) – Galkin
 * A Snow Fairy Tale (1959) – chauffeur's voice (played by Mikhail Pugovkin)
 * Thrice Resurrected (1960) – Anton's voice (played by Gennady Pavlov)
 * Planeta Bur (1962) – Ivan Shcherba
 * Come Tomorrow, Please... (1963) – Kostya's voice (played by Yuri Gorobets)
 * The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965) – Tarashkin
 * Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) – Allen Sherman (uncredited; in original movie as Shcherba)
 * Thirty Three (1965) – toothless taxi driver
 * Little Fugitive (1966) – captain's assistant
 * Give a Paw, Friend! (1967) – foreman of animal control service
 * The Shield and the Sword (1968) – Gustav's voice (played by Ernst-Georg Schwill)
 * Crime and Punishment (1969) – lieutenant Ilya Petrovich "Gunpowder"
 * The Twelve Chairs (1971) – Ostap Bender's voice (played by Archil Gomiashvili)
 * Train Stop – Two Minutes (1972) – Vlas Petrovich
 * Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle (1973) – Vasily Vasilyevich
 * Talents and Admirers (1973) – Gavrilo Petrovich Migaev
 * You to Me, Me to You (1976) – Sergei Kashkin's voice (played by Leonid Kuravlyov)
 * The Throw, or Everything Started on Saturday (1976) – Temirbek Sarsenbaev's voice (played by Yesbolgan Zhaisanbaev)
 * Armed and Dangerous (1977) – Starbottle's voice (played by Algimantas Masiulis)
 * Balamut (1978) – Aleksei Ivanovich
 * Aquanauts (1979) – Selivanov
 * Borrowing Matchsticks (1980) – Ville Huttunen's voice (played by Olavi Ahonen)
 * Sailors Have No Questions (1980) – Alya's father
 * Could One Imagine? (1981) – taxi driver's voice (played by Vladimir Prikhodko)
 * Demidovs (1983) – voivode
 * A Cruel Romance (1984) – Mikhin
 * Sohni Mahiwal (1984) – warrior's voice in Soviet dub (played by Frunzik Mkrtchyan)
 * One Second for a Feat (1985) – Romanenko
 * Love with Privileges (1989) – Dr. Nikolai Yevgenyevich Kondakov
 * The Return of the Battleship (1996) – janitor
 * Red Square (2004) – Konstantin Chernenko

Awards and honors

 * Order of the Badge of Honour (1976)
 * Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1981)
 * Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1984)
 * Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" (1997)
 * People's Artist of Russia (2000)