Mikhail Pugovkin
Mikhail Ivanovich Pugowkin (Russian: Михаил Иванович Пуговкин, real name Pugonkin ( Пугонькин ), born July 13, 1923 in Rameschki, Rajon Tschuchloma; † July 25, 2008 in Moscow) was a Soviet / Russian actor, who received the award in 1988 People's Artist of the USSR.
Life and work
Mikhail Pugowkin studied under Ivan Moskvin at the theater school of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre. During World War II he fought as a volunteer in the Red Army and was severely wounded at the front. After his recovery, he got his first role in 1943 at a theater in Moscow and played after the war in the movie The Wedding by Anton Chekhov with. By 1959 Pugowkin remained with various productions in Moscow, Murmansk and Vilnius on the theater stages present.
Pugowkin participated in more than 70 films in the subsequent period. Especially his roles in the comedies by Leonid Gaidai as Operation Y and Other Adventures Schuriks (1965 ), The Twelve Chairs (1971) and Ivan Vasilievich changes his occupation ( 1973) made him one of the most famous actors of the Soviet Union.
In 2001 he played his last role in a film adaptation of the fairy tale of the Bremen Town Musicians, after which he retired from the film business.
Private
Pugowkin lived a long time in Yalta in the Crimea, before he moved to Moscow in 1999. 2005 in Kharkiv an actor counterfeit statue of Father Fyodor, whom he played in The Twelve Chairs was revealed. Overall Pugowkin was married three times and has a daughter named Elena from his first marriage.
On 25 July 2008 Pugowkin died at his home in Moscow from the effects of diabetes. He was buried at the cemetery Wagankowoer.