Biography
“Is there life on Mars, is there no life on Mars”, “Masik wants vodka” - these phrases uttered from the screen by Sergei Filippov have become catchphrases. During his life, he played in 100 films and was remembered by audiences as a brilliant comedian.
Sergei was the only son in the Filippov family. He was born on June 24, 1912 in one of the villages of the Saratov region. The father worked at the factory at the machine, the mother ran the household and took sewing home. The family lived from penny to penny.
Actor Sergei Filippov
When Sergei was 5 years old, the revolution began. The plant stopped, and my father started drinking out of grief. One day he returned home drunk and announced that he was leaving to fight: Sergei never saw his father again. The mother took on any job, so there was no time left for her son. And soon the stepfather appeared in the Filippovs’ house. The actor remembered him as a domineering man who even put a gun under his pillow at night.
The nervous atmosphere was reflected in Sergei’s studies and behavior. He studied poorly, once in a chemistry lesson he almost blew up the school. He was soon expelled. Then the mother took her son to work in a bakery, but he didn’t last long there either. Sergei Filippov was fired when, while reading a Jack London novel, he forgot to salt his bread. The guy also didn’t get along with the German cabinetmaker: he ruined an expensive antique cabinet by driving a dozen nails into it. Neither a mechanic, nor a gardener, nor a loader emerged from him.
Sergey Filippov
Sergei loved to dance, he could rehearse for hours in front of the mirror or watch rehearsals in the dance studio. He was taken to a dance class, although he was tall and thin. Filippov dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer, but was too late - enrollment in ballet schools had already ended. Then the stubborn young man entered the variety and circus technical school. After graduation, he managed to join the troupe of the Opera and Ballet Theater. True, at the fourth performance, Sergei Filippov lost consciousness right on stage. Doctors diagnosed a heart attack and had to forget about a career in ballet.
Filippov Igor
Born November 13, 1968 In 1996 graduated from VGIK.
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Translation from German (2020, television, dir. Andrei Marmontov, Vladimir Kilburg) supporting role / Lipke
6.8/5
Polar (2019, TV series, directed by Konstantin Statsky, Alexey Sidorov, etc.) / Yusupov
6.6/11
At Dawn (2018, multi-episode, directed by Alexey Myasnikov)
Crane in the Sky (2018, TV series, directed by Sergey Komarov)
Parental Law (2018, multi-episode, directed by Nikolay Borts)
5.0/2
Yellow Eye of the Tiger (2017, TV series, directed by Mark Gorobets) supporting role / FSB officer
5.9/9
The Expropriator (2017/2019, TV series, directed by Vladimir Krasnopolsky, Valery Uskov) main role / Khromov
7.4/5
Sklifosovsky. Reanimation (2016, TV series, directed by Yulia Krasnova) supporting role / Semenov
6.5/39
Jackal (2016, multi-part, directed by Evgeny Zvezdakov) (credited as I. Filippov)
cameo role / Alexander Ivanovich / KGB general
6.6/24
Pearls (2016, TV series, directed by Sergei Krasnov) supporting role / Ozerov
5.9/17
Veronica doesn't want to die (2016, multi-episode, dir. Olga Muzaleva) supporting role / Aristarchus
5.7/3
Spellbound (2015, TV series, directed by Yuri Sukhodolsky) main role / Nikolai Romanovich Starov / Colonel
5.6/7
Sasha the good, Sasha the evil (2015/2017, TV series, directed by Michislav Yuzovsky) (credited: I. Filippov)
supporting role
6.3/10
Spider (2015, multi-part, directed by Evgeny Zvezdakov) supporting role / Alexander Ivanovich / KGB general
7.2/44
Not a couple (2015, TV series, directed by Stas Shmelev) supporting role / Gordeev
6.5/48
Pennsylvania (2015, TV series, directed by Vladimir Vinogradov)
6.0/9
The Order (2015, multi-part, directed by Alexey Bystritsky) supporting role / Alexey Konstantinovich Chuck
4.8/5
Spiritless 2 (2015, dir. Roman Prygunov) supporting role / security chief
6.5/38
Eclipse (2015, multi-part, directed by Andrey Krasavin) main role / Fyodor Varshavsky
6.0/7
A View from Eternity (2014, multi-episode, directed by Alexander Khvan) supporting role / Nikolai Dmitrievich
6.0/8
Bitch War (2014, multi-episode, directed by Nikolay Borts) supporting role / Koval
6.9/14
Moon (2014, TV series, directed by Nikolay Sarkisov) main role / Nazarov
6.3/30
The Man Who Saved the World (2014, dir. Peter Anthony)
6.5/2
Suspicion (2014, multi-part, directed by Armenak Nazikyan) main role / John Cowell
5.5/8
Forced March: Hunt for the “Hunter” (2014, multi-episode, directed by Vladimir Kilburg) supporting role / “Football Player”
7.0/2
Leningrad-46 (2014-2015, TV series, directed by Igor Kopylov) supporting role / Stefan
6.9/101
Executioner (2014, multi-part, directed by Vyacheslav Nikiforov) (credited: uncredited)
/ Alexander Ivanovich / KGB general
7.2/67
Love and Roman (2014, television, directed by Evgeny Sokolov) supporting role / lawyer
6.1/10
Man from Nowhere (2013, TV series, directed by Evgeny Malkov, Yuri Popovich, etc.)
5.8/10
Time Loop (2013, TV series, directed by Yuri Ilyin) supporting role / Bartenev
6.3/14
Stanitsa (2013, TV series, directed by Vladimir Shevelkov) supporting role / Zvkhvrov
6.8/46
You will pay for everything (2013, multi-part, dir. Dmitry Sorokin)
5.6/7
Common myrtle (2013/2015, multi-episode, directed by Alexander Khvan) supporting role / Irina’s father
6.2/11
Grandfather 005 (2013-2014, TV series, directed by Arkady Grigoryan, Mher Mkrtchyan) / Yudin
5.5/8
Private detective Tatyana Ivanova (2013, TV series, directed by Oleg Shtrom) (credited as I. Filippov)
cameo role
6.5/13
Mom Detective (2013, TV series, directed by Alexander Solovyov) supporting role / Grigory Pavlovich Krasin
5.7/25
Maryina Roshcha (2012, TV series, directed by Alexander Khvan) / Shalevich
6.6/78
Bros 3 (2012, TV series, directed by Viktor Konisevich)
6.9/31
May Rain (2012, television, dir. Ivan Sidorov) supporting role / Andrey Gavrilovich / boss
6.1/20
St. John's wort 2 (2010, TV series, directed by Alexander Kalugin) / Oleg Nikolaevich Rubtsov
6.4/46
Frozen Dispatches (2010, TV series, directed by Armen Harutyunyan-Eletsky) / Vladimir Ryzhkov
6.8/95
Detective agency “Ivan da Marya” (2010, TV series, directed by Rauf Kubaev) / Dmitry Pustovoy
6.6/85
Love-Carrot 3 (2010, dir. Sergei Ginzburg) cameo role / military
4.9/52
The teacher-in-law. Continuation (2010, TV series, directed by Alexander Mokhov) / “Chirik”
6.5/27
Antisniper 4: Shot from the past (2010, television, directed by Sergey Sokalyuk) / Stas Zamelin
5.8/25
Antisniper 3: New level (2010, television, directed by Sergey Sokolyuk) / Stas Zamelin
6.0/23
St. John's wort (2009, TV series, directed by Alexander Smirnov) / Oleg Nikolaevich Rubtsov
5.4/37
Invaders (2009, TV series, directed by Radda Novikova) / Oleg Barents
6.6/28
Queen (2009, television, dir. Levon Grigoryan) / Dmitry
4.8/11
Tanks are not afraid of dirt (2009, multi-part, directed by Vladimir Tumaev, Armen Harutyunyan) / Tretyakov / captain
5.7/10
The General's Granddaughter (2009, TV series, directed by Saido Kurbanov) / Vladimir Mikhailovich Sorokin / Major
6.2/15
Spy Games 11. Escape (2008, television, directed by Ilya Maksimov) / GRU officer
1.0/2
Law and order. Criminal intent 2 (2008, TV series, directed by Georgy Nikolaenko) / Konstantin Razumov / episode “Baggage”
6.0/8
Marry a General (2008, television, dir. Vladimir Vinogradov) main character / Grigory Seregin
4.7/12
Servant of the Sovereigns (2007, dir. Oleg Ryaskov) episodic role / Swedish drama
6.6/39
Trap (2007, TV series, directed by Vladimir Krasnopolsky, Valery Uskov) / Nikita Aleksandrovich / major, helps Kopytov hush up the drug case
6.1/26
Soldiers 12 (2007, TV series, directed by Elizaveta Kleinot, Vladislav Nikolaev)
5.8/15
Omut (2007, TV series, directed by Alexey Shikin) supporting role / Vladimir Pavlov / historian, psychologist, criminologist
5.0/7
Autonomous. People's Romance (2006, TV series, directed by Alexander Dzyuba, Oleg Filipenko, etc.) main role / Alexey Makarov / major, head of the special department
6.2/17
In the rhythm of tango (2006, TV series, directed by Alexander Pavlovsky)
6.8/37
Alias “Albanian” (2006, TV series, directed by Rauf Kubaev) / Igor / intermediary
6.7/37
His own man (2005, TV series, directed by Zulfikar Musakov) episodic role / Frenchman, friend of Elena Golubeva
6.4/9
Alexander Garden (2005, multi-part, directed by Oleg Ryaskov, Alexey Pimanov)
6.2/46
Zone. Prison romance (2005-2006, TV series, directed by Peter Stein) main role / Raevsky
6.6/34
Archangel (2005, serial, dir. John Jones) / Kretov
6.5/2
Lawyer 3 (2005-2007, TV series, directed by Ilya Maksimov, Andrey Sokolov)
5.6/9
Viola Tarakanova. In the world of criminal passions (2004, TV series, directed by Vladimir Shchegolkov)
6.2/38
Penal Battalion (2004, multi-part, directed by Nikolay Dostal)
7.0/164
Astrologer (2004, TV series, directed by Guriy Atnev, Andrey Silkin) supporting role / partner of “Scar”
6.4/62
On the corner, at the Patriarch's 3 (2003, TV series, directed by Vadim Derbenev) / Igor Petrov / major
5.2/12
Snowy Love, or a Winter Night's Dream (2003, television, dir. Oksana Bayrak) main character / Denis Kravtsov / Lyalya's father
6.5/44
On the move (2002, directed by Philip Yankovsky) (credited as I. Filippov)
cameo role
6.2/35
Code of Honor (2002, TV series, directed by Georgy Nikolaenko)
6.3/29
Two Fates (2002, TV series, directed by Valery Uskov, Vladimir Krasnopolsky) / Shklyarov / Nadezhda’s lover in Paris
6.6/80
There overseas (2002)
0.0/0
Lady Boss (2001, TV series, directed by Isaac Friedberg)
5.2/10
Theater
After an unsuccessful ballet career, Filippov went to work at the Variety Theater Studio. At one of his performances, Nikolai Akimov noticed him and offered to work at the Leningrad Comedy Theater. Sergei Filippov worked in this theater for 30 years, from 1935 to 1965. Here he played his best roles in the plays “Dog in the Manger”, “It’s Not All Maslenitsa for the Cat”, “Actress”, “Simple Girl”, “The Inspector General” and dozens of others.
Sergei Filippov in the play “The Last Judgment”, 1939
Filippov quickly became famous. In the pre- and post-war years, not many films were made, so people willingly went to the theater. During the year, the Leningrad Variety Theater staged 16 performances - Sergei Nikolaevich participated in all of them. He talentedly and subtly managed to play everything ugly and vulgar that is in people, and it was always unexpected and masterful.
In 1965, the actor was fired from the theater. The last straw was the obscene remarks that the drunken Filippov made from behind the scenes. He was fired “at his own request.”
Collaboration with L. Gaidai
In 1965, S. Filippov was diagnosed with a brain tumor. This was preceded by long-term headaches and loss of work in the theater. The main source of his income is tours, where the audience receives the actor with great love. In addition, he uses every opportunity to act in films. A real success for him is his collaboration with director L. Gaidai, who offers the role of Kisa Vorobyaninov in the comedy “The Twelve Chairs” (1971). Despite his poor health, Sergei Nikolaevich Filippov happily plunges into work. Before filming ends, he agrees to undergo surgery to remove the tumor, which involves craniotomy. He refuses repeated surgical intervention with the insertion of a metal plate, leaving him without a parietal bone for the rest of his days.
The role of Kisa becomes almost the only main role in S. Filippov’s career, which revealed his talent to the maximum. L. Gaidai appreciated S. Filippov’s talent so much that in his 1989 film “Private Detective” he specially found a small job for him, although Sergei Nikolaevich almost did not act in films. It will be the final point in the career of an outstanding artist.
Movies
Sergei Filippov began acting in films in 1937. He made his debut as a Finn in the film The Fall of Kimas Lake. Then there was filming in “Volochaev Days”, “Member of the Government”, “New Adventures of the Seamstress”, “Restless Household”, “Cinderella”.
Sergei Filippov in the film “Carnival Night”
In the 40s, Soviet cinema could not boast of a large number of comedic actors, so directors often invited the talented Sergei Filippov. One of the most striking was the role of a lecturer in the comedy “Carnival Night”. Another interesting work is Kazimir Almazov in the film “Tiger Tamer”.
In 1965, Filippov had a brain tumor removed, but he continued to act. After the serial film “12 Chairs”, in which he played Kisa Vorobyaninov, the actor could no longer walk freely on the street - passers-by recognized him and asked for his autograph.
Sergei Filippov in the film “12 Chairs”
In the 80s, Sergei Filippov almost did not appear on screen due to health problems. One of his last film jobs was a cameo role as a patient in the film “Heart of a Dog” in 1988.
FILIPPOVSergey Nikolaevich
06/24/1912, Saratov - 04/19/1990, Moscow
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1974)
The beginning is “hooligan”
Sergei Filippov was born on June 24, 1912 in Saratov into a simple working-class family. His father was a mechanic, his mother a dressmaker. He didn’t do well at school, and in high school he became known as a hooligan. Only two subjects were particularly good for the boy - literature and chemistry, the latter of which once failed him greatly. Somehow, in the absence of a teacher, he mixed hydrochloric acid with iron filings, added a couple of reagents... thereby creating a terribly pungent smell throughout the school. Classes were disrupted, and the would-be chemist was expelled from school.
Studies
Sergei Filippov was not particularly upset: he became an apprentice baker in a private bakery. Then he tried several more professions, from turner to carpenter, until chance brought him to the ballet studio. And then a brilliant future opened up for Filippov: after a few weeks he was already considered the best student. And the young talent, on the advice of teachers, in 1929 went to enroll in Moscow. Having been late for the entrance exams to the ballet school at the Bolshoi Theater, and at the same time to the choreographic school in Leningrad, Sergei Filippov, without being confused, submitted documents to the newly opened variety and circus technical school, where he was accepted.
Everyone predicted success for the gifted student for many years. After graduating from college in 1933, Sergei Filippov was accepted into the troupe of the Opera and Ballet Theater. But the career of a ballet dancer, unfortunately, turned out to be too short - during the next performance he became ill, suffered a heart attack. I had to leave ballet.
Sergei Filippov entered the variety theater studio. He performed a lot on the stage in Leningrad and during one of the concerts he was noticed by Nikolai Pavlovich Akimov, who suggested that the young actor move to the Comedy Theater. For the legendary director, Filippov played mainly comedic roles. And in the role of a comedian, he felt like a fish in water. The actor was immensely happy that by saying just one line he could make the whole audience laugh.
Movie
The actor first began acting in films in early 1937. And the debut became fateful in the work of Sergei Filippov. He was invited to the wordless and, as it seemed at that moment, easy role of a Finn from Shutskor in the film about the civil war in Karelia directed by Muzykants “For the Soviet Motherland”, but in the book by Gennady Fish “The Fall of Kimas Lake”. All that was needed was dexterity, dexterity, and courage, which Filippova did not need to occupy.
The actor’s character had to jump out of the ambush, run along a log thrown across an ice-free skating rink between two lakes, and shoot at the Red Army soldier. Feeling that a grenade has exploded at his feet, he must immediately collapse into the water. There was one bad thing: the filming took place in winter and we had to fall into icy water.
The film's directors treated the debutant cruelly. I had to repeat the episode again, and again, and again. Four times Filippov fell into the water, four times, completely numb, the guy was taken out of the water, rubbed with alcohol and changed clothes. It would seem that all these ordeals could discourage anyone from acting in films. But Sergei Filippov held firm, and the desire to film grew with each take!
After his “icy debut,” the actor was noticed, and directors willingly began inviting him to filming. Role followed role.
First marriage
By that time, the actor’s personal life had settled down. He married Alevtina Ivanovna Grigorovich, who studied with him at the variety and circus technical school. They both took risks. Filippov because he married the daughter of a nobleman, and this was not encouraged in any way in those years. Alevtina could well have incurred the wrath of her grandmother, who was raising her granddaughter in strictness (Alevtina’s parents died). After all, her future husband had, as they say, “neither a stake nor a yard.”
The grandmother, as they say, was simply presented with a fait accompli by showing her the marriage certificate, and the family began to heal. And in 1938 their son Yuri was born.
Thirties
In 1939, the actor appeared on screen in three films at once. In the film “Member of the Government” directed by Zarkhi and Kheifits in the role of an arrogant and cruel man, a quitter and a saboteur. One of those who will soon begin to kill the builders of a new collective farm life from around the corner. Sergei Filippov had to meet such enemies in his time. As a Komsomol member, he took part in detachments that took away surplus grain from the kulaks. He remembered well the bestial hatred of these enemies of Soviet power and vividly transferred what he saw in life to the screen.
Sergei Filippov also played the episodic role of a pogromist in the film “Vyborg Side” by Kozintsev and Trauberg, where the young artist stood out for the sharpness and accuracy of the character of his hero, and an old railway worker in the film “Arinka” by Kosheverova and Muzykant.
Sergei Filippov was experiencing a time of recovery. The talented director Sergei Yutkevich invited him to the film “Yakov Sverdlov” for the role of an anarchist sailor, and this successful work seemed to finally secure the young artist’s right to appear on the screen.
The originality of the actor's talent, his slight emotional excitability, the brightness and sharpness of his comedic techniques, and his surprisingly organic existence in the character attracted directors. The artist amazed with his rich facial expressions and plasticity. His face could convey complex psychological states and facial cues. His incredible physical endurance also attracted attention. It was difficult to keep him from dangerous tricks and experiments.
"The Adventure of Korzinkina"
The development of Soviet eccentric film comedy took place in difficult conditions. This genre was classified as “formalistic”. But the first film - “The Adventures of Korzinkina”, directed by Klimenty Mints, with a wonderful actress of rare comedic talent and enormous charm in the title role, Yanina Zheimo, was a success. Sergei Filippov played in this film the role of a master of artistic expression, performing a poem reading at a pop competition.
The actor's hero, the reader, came on stage with a mouse, which had slipped through the collar of his tailcoat, to read "The Dying Gladiator." The tragic meaning of Lermontov's poems and the behavior of the performer himself, giggling because the mouse was tickling him, were in sharp contradiction. Sergei Filippov performed a cascade of facial tricks, resorted to the sharpest acting techniques - grotesque and buffoonery - and achieved an extraordinary comic effect; the role was an extraordinary success.
In the same vein of satirical exaggeration and buffoonery, the actor played the next role - Corporal Spukke, in the film "The New Adventures of Schweik." In one of his articles, the director of this film, Sergei Yutkevich, highly appreciating the work of Sergei Filippov, called him “a magnificent buffoon.”
"Night Patrol"
The long string of comedic images created by Sergei Nikolaevich in subsequent years allows us to understand the peculiarity of his work. He really didn't look like anyone else. He had his favorite comedians, but while he admired them and their work, he never sought to repeat their techniques or copy their masks. The audience recognized Sergei Nikolaevich immediately, and he does not try to hide under any mask. In every role, even the smallest one, he looked, first of all, for character.
“Most often,” said Sergei Nikolaevich, “I have to play the roles of Soviet people, our contemporaries, and therefore I try to find social meaning in each of them.” This is how Sergei Filippov appeared before the audience in the film “Night Patrol” in the role of store manager Polzikov. The actor was present at the interrogations of thieving businessmen like Polzikov. It seemed to him that he had found this feature and showed it not just as a character trait of a given store manager, but as a phenomenon determined by that social system. This is Polzikov’s constant, panicky fear of Soviet justice and the inevitable exposure of his fraudulent operations.
Personal life
The fame that befell Sergei Filippov essentially destroyed his family. The actor was extremely popular with women, which he enjoyed with pleasure. Countless affairs with the first beauties of Moscow and Leningrad, constant drinking, all this led to the fact that after a decade and a half, Alevtina Ivanovna took her son and left. They never formalized the divorce...
Sergei Filippov was not left alone for long. Very soon he became friends with the writer Antonina Georgievna Golubeva, who, by the way, was almost twenty years older than him. They began to live, as they say today, a civil marriage.
Filippov loved his wife very much and at the same time was very afraid of her. Golubeva, being a very jealous woman, immediately took him in her hands. She controlled her husband's every move and even forbade him to see his son and ex-wife. Antonina Georgievna tried to fight his addiction to alcohol, but all attempts were unsuccessful. Filippov continued to drink, turning into a real alcoholic...
1950s
Since the mid-50s, there was a new rise in the popularity of Sergei Filippov. It all started with his Kazimir Almazov in The Tiger Tamer. Despite the harsh satirical colors, his character is not depicted as a villain, nor turned into a symbol or caricature. Filippov created a living person, endowed with vital traits. The arrogant, narcissistic, fool Almazov emphasizes his superiority over others at every step. But he, like everyone who imagines himself indispensable in this life, faced an inglorious end.
The second half of the 50s was a time when Filippov reigned supreme on the comedy scene and enjoyed enormous popularity among viewers: in those years there were few real comedians. One of Sergei Nikolaevich’s brightest successes was as a lecturer “from the Society” in the film “Carnival Night” by Eldar Ryazanov. For a few moments, the lecturer “from the Society”, Sergei Filippov, was present on the screen, and before the viewer there appeared an unforgettable image of a living person with a clear and detailed biography, a person far from modernity, from science, a pathetic ignoramus who had turned his interesting profession into a dull craft. He spoke very few words. But with the help of finely developed facial expressions and gestures, Filippov conveyed immeasurably more than what was given to the actor in the text.
It is impossible not to recall another work of the artist. In the film “Girl Without an Address” he played the head of the office Vasily Nikodimych Komarinsky. Before us is another “idle talker”, confident in his necessity and irreplaceability and talking about “the timeliness of turning over incoming directives in a timely manner and exactly at the right time” in his office. But in the home circle he turns into the henpecked Masik. Remember his phrase addressed to his wife: “Masik wants vodka.”
Latest roles
The fate of a comedian depends on the development of comedy drama. Filippov had years when he did not play a single role in films. Filippov’s repertoire, who does not disdain short scenes and episodes, was also reflected in the consumer attitude towards his work by other filmmakers, who used his talent as “a spicy seasoning for a bland dish.”
This is how numerous versions of drivers, varieties of policemen, doormen, roguish administrators, and tipsy citizens appeared on the screen. But the brilliant actor strove to give each of these characters living human traits. And he always succeeded brilliantly. And if at the same time the actor was not constrained by the narrow confines of the role, then everyone was convinced of his wide capabilities.
In 1965, Sergei Nikolaevich Filippov underwent serious surgery to remove a brain tumor. But the illness did not seem to affect his performance - he continued to act in films a lot. Just look at Kisa Vorobyaninov in Leonid Gaidai’s comedy “The Twelve Chairs.” It was after this work that the actor was soon awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR.
The 70s also gave us the unforgettable Swedish ambassador in the comedy “Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Profession,” who demands “Kemsk volost” from the Tsar. Filippov’s roles in films were also memorable: “It can’t be!” and "Tobacco Captain".
In the 1980s, the actor practically stopped acting due to health problems. However, such works as Hyvärinen’s role in Leonid Gaidai’s comedy “Behind the Matches” and the small role of a patient in “Heart of a Dog” are worthy of mention.
And a little more about him
Sergei Filippov was a harsh, rude, closed person; he had almost no close friends, so few could tell the truth about him.
Despite his wife’s ban, he continued to maintain a relationship with his son Yuri Filippov. As Yuri Sergeevich said, his father continued to love both him and his ex-wife. Therefore, the decision of Alevtina Ivanovna and Yuri to emigrate to the USA in the early 70s was a big blow for Sergei Filippov. He considered them traitors, refused to communicate with him and did not answer letters and calls for many years. True, over time, paternal feelings prevailed over emotions, and the family connection, albeit not very close, was restored.
In the last years of his life, Sergei Filippov was very lonely. After the death of Antonina Golubeva in 1989, he was left completely alone, without a livelihood. The helpless old man was visited by his friend Konstantin and actress Lyubov Tishchenko. They cleaned the apartment, fed him...
A few days before his death, the actor told Lyubov Tishchenko about his dream. “You know, all my life I wanted to play a positive tragic role, but I only got nasty types,” sighed Filippov. “I even cried when I found out that the main role in the film “When the Trees Were Big” went to Yuri Nikulin.”
Sergei Filippov died on April 19, 1990. He was buried next to Antonina Golubeva. The artist’s epitaph was his favorite verse: “And on the day of burial there will be neither candles nor church singing.”
Tatiana Novitchenskaya
Materials used: Fedor Razzakov, “The Light of Extinguished Stars”, Moscow, “Eksmo” 2007; Maria Shuvalova, “Sergei Filippov. Creative biography", 1968; “Filippov Sergey Nikolaevich”, “Comments of the day”; Sergei Kapkov, “Actors of Soviet Cinema,” “Dance on the Grave of an Idol”; “Gaidai’s favorite actor died of madness,” Pravda.RU, June 4, 2004
Personal life
Filippov was married twice. He met his first wife, Alevtina Gorinovich, at school. They soon got married, and in 1936 Alevtina gave birth to a son, Yuri. Yura was 10 years old when her parents divorced. At first, Sergei maintained a relationship with his son, but then Alevtina Gorinovich immigrated to America. The departure of his ex-wife and son was a blow for the actor; he could not forgive them and did not read letters from his son.
Sergey Filippov with his son
Sergei Filippov was an ideological communist, after his divorce he saw KGB agents and surveillance everywhere. He was afraid that they would come for him, and was waiting for this.
The actor met his second wife Antonina Golubeva in a restaurant. During the fight, someone hit Filippov with a fork, and Antonina helped stop the bleeding and consoled her. So they started living together. Golubeva was 13 years older than her husband, controlled his every step, friends, phone calls, and was terribly jealous of his colleagues and fans.
Sergei Filippov with his wife Antonina Golubeva
Friends said that the actor was afraid of his domineering wife. He never called her by name - only Barabulka. They lived together for 40 years.
Antonina Golubeva was there when Sergei Filippov was fired from the theater, when his tumor was removed, she nursed him, cared for him, and saved him.
Death
Filippov outlived his Barabulka by only a year. The death of his wife was a blow from which he could not recover: the cancer began to progress. The actor suffered from loneliness in the last years of his life. At the peak of his fame, he was wasteful and did not save money for his old age. Colleagues and friends visited him only occasionally.
Grave of Sergei Filippov
He died on April 19, 1990 in his apartment, all alone. His body was discovered by neighbors only two weeks after his death. They were struck by the miserable conditions in the apartment - there was no library, no expensive antiques. The actor sold some of them, and some were taken by Barabulka’s relatives shortly before his death.
Money for the funeral was collected from friends; the Lenfilm film studio did not allocate a penny. A modest coffin, a modest farewell to the last journey to the Northern Cemetery in St. Petersburg. The actor was buried next to his second wife.
Filmography
- 1945 - “Hello, Moscow!”
- 1954 — “Tiger Tamer”
- 1956 — “Different Fates”
- 1957 — “Girl without an address”
- 1958 — “On the Other Side”
- 1965 — “Foreigner”
- 1971 — “12 chairs”
- 1973 - “Ivan Vasilyevich changes profession”
- 1976 - “How Ivan the Fool went after a miracle”
- 1977 — “Incognito from St. Petersburg”
- 1980 — “The Comedy of Bygone Days”
- 1982 — “Sportloto-82”
- 1985 - “Danger to life!”
- 1987 — “The Tale of a Painter in Love”
- 1988 — “Heart of a Dog”
