Yefim Kopelyan
Yefim Zakharovich Kopelyan (
He was born in the
At the end of his education, Kopelyan became an actor on the main staff of the BTD. These early years in the theatre were not notable for any special successes.[4]
Later he played many roles, from the romantic Don Cesar de Bazan to the sailor Shvandya in Lyubov Yarovaya, roles of the classical repertoire and modern. He was a "social hero", playing character roles in comedies and tragedies.
Operation Barbarossa found BTD in Baku on tour. On the return of the theatre on 4 July 1941 to Leningrad, Kopelyan entered the People's militia and played in the Theatre of the People's militia, which soon became the Front-line propaganda platoon of Leningrad.
Kopelyan acted in film and on TV a lot, and was the brilliant master of small roles: Steersman (Tanker Derbent, 1941), Priest Gapon (Prologue, 1956),
His reading the text from the author in films Seven notes in silence (1967), Meetings with Gorky (1969), Memory (1971) and television film Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973, State prize of the RSFSR in 1976) was unique.
Kopelyan married actress Lyudmila Makarova in 1941. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1973. He died in 1975 in Leningrad.[5]
Selected filmography
- The Gadfly (1955) as Head of the frontier
- Alexander Popov (1955) as Marquis Solari
- Old Khottabych (1956) as driller Jafar Ali Mohammed
- Mister Iks (1958) as Theodora's fan
- Goodbye, Boys (1964) as The Sheet Metal Worker
- Time, Forward! (1966) as Nalbandov
- The Elusive Avengers (1966) as Ataman Burnash
- Sofiya Perovskaya (1967) as Mikhail Loris-Melikov
- The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers (1967) as Ataman Burnash
- Woman's World (1967) as Kaspar
- Dead Season (1968) as Smith (voice)
- Secret Agent's Destiny (1970) as General Sergeev
- Crime and Punishment (1970) as Svidrigailov
- The Seagull(1970) as Dorn
- Dauria(1971) as Cossack Leader Ataman
- The Crown of the Russian Empire, or Once Again the Elusive Avengers (1971) as Burnash
- Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) as voice behind the scene
- Eternal Call (1973) as Mikhaylo Lukic Kaftanov
- Failure of Engineer Garin (1973) as Gaston Leclerc
- The Straw Hat (1974) as Bopertyui
- Jarosław Dąbrowski (1976) as Prince Beybutov
References
External links
- (in Russian) Biography
- Yefim Kopelyan at IMDb