Nikolay Dupak
Nikolay Dupak | |
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Born | Nikolay Lukyanovich Dupak 5 October 1921 |
Occupation | actor |
Years active | 1941–present |
Spouse(s) | Raisa Dupak |
Nikolay Lukyanovich Dupak (Russian: Николай Лукьянович Дупак; born 5 October 1921) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theater director, the head of theaters.[1] Front-line soldier, invalid of the World War II.[2] Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1980), Merited Artist of Ukraine (2012). Honorary Artist of Moscow (2019).
Biography[]
Born on October 5, 1921 in Ukraine in the village of Starobeshevo, Donetsk Oblast in a large Ukrainian family. Countryman-fellow villager of Pasha Angelina.[1]
In the spring of 1941, Dupak, a young student of the Rostov Theater School, was approved for the role of Andrei in the film Taras Bulba directed by Alexander Dovzhenko, however this picture was not filmed.[3] But when they began to shoot the picture, the war began. Nikolai joined the people's militia. Then he served in the cavalry, went through the entire Great Patriotic War. He was wounded and shell-shocked three times.
Dupak was the leading actor and director of the Moscow Stanislavsky Theater, acted in films. Then he moved to Taganka Theatre. It was he who invited Yuri Lyubimov and Vladimir Vysotsky to the theater.[1] He persuaded the artist David Borovsky, who worked in Kiev, to move to Moscow. Dupak's creative career lasted 80 years.
Selected filmography[]
- Dark Is the Night (1945) as Lieutenant Sannikov
- In the Mountains of Yugoslavia (1945) as adjutant
- The Forty-First (1956) as Chupilko
- Torrents of Steel (1967) as Volosatov
- Two Comrades Were Serving (1968) as army commander
- Intervention (1968) as Corporal Barbaru
- Bumbarash (1968) as Sovkov
- Eternal Call (1973) as Regional Committee Secretary Filimonov
- Captain Nemo (1975) as Colonel Bunro
- The Arrows of Robin Hood (1975) as miller, Maria's father
- Untypical Story (1977) as miller, Maria's father
- Life Is Beautiful (1979) as police commissioner
- The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (1983) as Abbot Aymer
- Love with Privileges (1989) as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR
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- 1921 births
- Living people
- Soviet male film actors
- Soviet male stage actors
- Russian male film actors
- Russian male stage actors
- Russian and Soviet theatre directors
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
- Honored Artists of the RSFSR
- Recipients of the title of Merited Artist of Ukraine
- Soviet people of World War II
- Russian centenarians
- Men centenarians