Actor Alexander Yakovlev has been known in our country since the 70s of the last century. It was then that he began to appear on the screen, initially in episodes. Over time, he began to trust the main roles, it was then that he fell in love with the Soviet and then the Russian audience.
Actor Biography
Actor Alexander Yakovlev was born in 1946. He was born in Moscow, immediately after the end of World War II. His childhood passed in the very center of the capital - on Gogolevsky Boulevard.
He began to dream about the stage, while still at school. In 1970 he entered the Gorky Theater School. He was educated at the "Drama Theater and Cinema Actor" department. He studied in the creative workshop of the People's Artist of Russia Nikolai Levkoev, known for playing Vladimir Lenin in the performances of Pogodin's "Man with a Gun" and "Kremlin Chimes".
At the beginning of a creative career
After receiving the diploma, actor Alexander Yakovlev by distribution ended up in Vladimir. He began to play in the regional drama theater. Only a few years later he returned to the capital, to his relatives.
In Moscow, actor Alexander Yakovlev got a job at the Moscow Theater of Young Spectators. And during perestroika, in 1985, he moved to the Ostrovsky Drama Theater.
Movie debut
The actor Alexander Yakovlev is best known to Soviet and Russian viewers for his roles in the cinema. His debut took place in the cult television series Tatyana Lioznova "Seventeen Moments of Spring." He can be remembered for the role of a security guard in the American embassy.
Then, on his acting track record, there was a harmonist from Leo Mirsky’s drama “The Great Holodrads”, a German pilot from Valery Lonsky’s military drama “The Sky With Me”, the organizer of the impudent attack on the train with the rank of staff captain from the Nikita Mikhalkov’s East’s friend among strangers, a stranger among his own, "a member of the revolutionary committee Sasha from the drama" Slave of Love ", which was also shot by Mikhalkov, son-in-law of the Besancon innkeeper Claude from the drama by Sergey Gerasimov" Red and Black ", a German officer from Yevgeny Matveyev’s melodrama" Fate ", the passenger of the train on an adventure Eldor Urazbayev’s action movie “Trans-Siberian Express”, a security scarf from the spy drama Timur Zoloev “Where have you been, Odysseus?”, Conkling from Vadim Kostromenko’s adventure film “The Guarneri Quartet”, Makhnovist commander Semen Nikitich Karetnikov from the biographical film “Sergei Linkov” Revolution, "a military commissar from the drama by Andrei Konchalovsky" Sibiriada ".
First major role
For the first time, Yakovlev played the main role on the big screen in 1979. He got the image of aquamanaut-hydrocombist Sven Ball in the fantastic film by Igor Voznesensky "Aquanauts".
According to the plot, the action takes place in the Indian Ocean, at the station "Deuterium". It produces the so-called heavy water - this is fuel for nuclear power plants, with which energy is supplied on the west coast.
Once aquanauts discover a double mesoscaph (underwater inhabited vehicle), in which there is only one person. He is extremely excited. At the bottom was his partner Vilem Pasic, who, most likely, had already died. Meanwhile, the station stops working, deuterium production stops. It is necessary to launch the station in the near future in order to find out what happened at a depth of 1010 meters.
Then the hydro-combo player Sven Ball (Alexander Yakovlev plays just that) sets off together with his colleague, where they encounter a huge deep-sea manta ray (a relative of stingrays). Submariners understand that fish are unusually smart.
Yakovlev’s character finds out that in her brain a matrix of consciousness was randomly copied, which Professor Kerom worked on. The matrix copied the brain of the daughter of a scientist who died in a plane crash. The drone that was transporting the matrix crashed while flying over the ocean. A manti cub accidentally crawled into the apparatus with matrices, and the fish regained its mind.
New roles
Subsequently, Yakovlev had many notable roles in the cinema. He played a lot with Veniamin Dorman, the captain of the French foreign legion Fernando Roche in the detective "Return of the Resident", drug baron Antonio Valdez Vaqueros in the adventure film "Copper Angel", an employee of the trading base Igor Laptev in the detective "The Broken Circle".
Vladimir Naumov played the freed convict Semyon Shiryaev in the drama Law, and the former Chekist Yuru Shiryaev in the political drama Ten Years Without the Right of Correspondence.
On the screen, he mostly got the roles of negative characters. These were the Gestapo officers, officers of the White Army, drug lords, killers and even insidious poisoners.
For a long period, Yakovlev collaborated with a creative studio in which Nikita Mikhalkov worked. In recent years, he played a lot in domestic television series - "Eulampia Romanova. The investigation is conducted by an amateur", "Challenge", "Travelers", "Closed School", "Turkish March", "Saboteur. End of war", "Personal life of Dr. Selivanova", "Proposed Circumstances", "Alibi for Two, " "Without Witnesses."
He played several vivid roles shortly before his death. In 2013, he got the image of the legendary hockey player Vsevolod Bobrov in the biographical sports drama Nikolai Lebedev "Legend No. 17", in 2014 Overko in the adventure horror film Oleg Stepchenko "Viy".
Personal life
Unlike most colleagues in the workshop, actor Alexander Yakovlev did not flaunt his relationship. The personal life of the hero of our article has always been a secret behind seven seals. She never advertised, he did not spread about close people in interviews and in communication with journalists.
It is only known that he was happy with his family and friends. Always with warmth and love Alexander Yakovlev spoke about them. The actor, whose wife was basically not a public person, lived with him a long life until his death.
