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Yuriy Nikulin

Acting December 18, 1921

Demidov, Smolenskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin (Russian: Юрий Владимирович Никулин; 18 December 1921 – 21 August 1997) was a well-known Soviet and Russian actor and clown who starred in many popular films. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1973 andHero of Socialist Labour in 1990. He also received a number of state awards, including the prestigious Order of Lenin, which he received twice in his lifetime. Nikulin's effortless style and precise delivery, as well as his mastery of timing and his hilarious masks made him an outstanding comedian, arguably the best Russian comedian ever. Nikulin showed his range in a variety of genres from slapstick comedy to romance and war drama. His most popular film partners were Georgiy Vitsin, Yevgeni Morgunov,Natalya Varley, Rolan Bykov, Anatoli Papanov, Sergei Filippov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Leonid Kuravlyov, Andrey Mironov, Evgeni Evstigneev, Vasili Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergei Bondarchuk, Nikolay Burlyaev, Viktor Pavlov, Boris Novikov Vladimir Etush, Saveli Kramarov, Nikolai Grinko, and many other notable Russian actors. In the ring, Nikulin presented a phlegmatic temperament, slow and unsmiling, and to many in the West his personality was reminiscent of the great silent film comedian Buster Keaton. Rich in mimicry, doleful of expression, Nikulin was hailed as “a brainy clown” outside Russia. Simple in style and gentle with children, his only vestiges of make-up were a reddened nose and black lines around his eyes, much different from the grotesquely painted faces of Western clowns. Nikulin, affectionately called Uncle Yury by Russian children, relied mainly upon his wits to earn his place in history as one of the best clowns of the 20th century.

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2016
Георгий Вицин. Не надо смеяться
Movie Self (archive footage)
2016
Legends of Cinema
TV show Self (archive footage)
2008
Георгий Вицин. Отшельник
Movie Self (archive footage)
2005
When Idols Were Gone
TV show Himself / ArchiveFootage
1993
Клуб «Белый попугай»
TV show
1993
To Remember
TV show Narrator
1991
Captain Krokus
Movie introductory and concluding remarks
1983
Scarecrow
Movie Nikolay Bessoltsev - Lena's grandfather
1982
I Don't Want to Be a Grown-Up
Movie Kloun
1979
Here, Not Far Away
Movie
1977
Clowns and Children
Movie
1977
Bobik Visiting Barbos
Movie Bobik (voice)
1976
Twenty Days Without War
Movie Major Vasily Nikolaevich Lopatin
1976
The Adventures of Travka
Movie
1976
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
Movie Himself
1975
They Fought for Their Motherland
Movie pvt. Nekrasov

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1974
Yeralash
TV show
1972
Old Men: Robbers
Movie Николай Мячиков
1972
Point, Point, Comma...
Movie Alexey's father
1972
Telegram
Movie Fyodor Fyodorovich
1971
12 Chairs
Movie janitor Tikhon
1971
Parad-Alle
Movie
1970
Deniska's Stories
Movie сосед Дениски из похожего дома
1969
The Diamond Arm
Movie Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov
1969
New Girl
Movie
1968
Seven Old Men and One Girl
Movie грабитель («Балбес»)
1967
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
Movie Balbes
1967
Сказки русского леса
Movie Balbes
1966
The Little Runaway
Movie
1966
Andrei Rublev
Movie Patrikey
1965
Голубой огонек - в первый час
Movie Self
1965
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
Movie «Balbes» (segment "Operation Y")
1965
Fantasizing
Movie
1965
Give Me a Complaints Book
Movie продавец
1964
Big "Wick"
Movie Петя-Петушок (нлвелла «Влип»)
1964
Come Here, Mukhtar!
Movie Glasychev
1963
Strictly Business
Movie Thief (segment "Makes the Whole World Kin")
1962
Young-Green
Movie Nikolai
1962
Fuse
TV show
1962
No Fear, No Blame
Movie clown