Boris Andreevich Babotschkin

Boris Babotschkin

Boris Babochkin ( Russian Борис Андреевич Бабочкин ; born January 5 ^{. Jul} / 18th January  1904 ^greg. In Saratov , †  21st July 1975 in Moscow ) was a Soviet actor .

Life

Babotschkin was born in Saratov, the son of a businessman and a teacher. He became interested in the theater at an early age and attended an acting school in Saratov in 1920, which he left a short time later. He moved to Moscow, studied for a few months at the drama school of Michael Chekhov and from 1921 at the school of Illarion Pewzow . This was followed by appearances at theaters in Moscow and at provincial theaters in Saratov and Samarqand, among others . In 1927 he became a member of the ensemble at the Leningrad Theater of Satire, and from 1931 to 1935 he played at the Leningrad Academic Drama Theater. From 1935 to 1940 Babotschkin worked as a director, actor and, in later years, artistic director of the Leningrad Gorky Theater (from 1992 State Academic Bolshoi Theater). In the 1952/53 season Babotschkin was chief director at the Pushkin Theater in Moscow and from 1955 until his death in 1975 he was part of the ensemble of the Moscow Maly Theater .

In 1928, Babotschkin came to film and made his screen debut in Мятеж. He experienced his international breakthrough in 1934 as the title character of the film Chapayev . In his later years he mainly shot for television, where he was seen several times in Chekhov films. Babotschkin died in Moscow in 1975 and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Filmography (selection)

• 1934: Chapayev ( Chapayev )
• 1936: The Friends ( Podrugi )
• 1948: The real man ( Powest o nastojaschtschem tscheloweke )
• 1950: The great power ( Velikaya sila )
• 1955: Young people in motion ( Trewoschnaja molodost )
• 1959: Annuschka ( Annuschka )
• 1967: Summer guests ( Datschniki )

Awards

• 1935: People's Artist of the RSFSR
• 1939: Order of Lenin
• 1941: Stalin Prize (first stage) for his representation in Chapayev
• 1950: Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• 1951: Stalin Prize (third stage) for his portrayal in The Great Power
• 1963: People's Artist of the USSR
• 1967: Order of Lenin
• 1974: Hero of socialist work , awarded the Order of Lenin
• 1977: State Prize of the USSR (posthumous)

literature

• Babotschkin, Boris Andrejewitsch . In: Joachim Reichow, Michael Hanisch (ed.): Actor A-Z . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1989, pp. 27-28.

Web links

• Boris Babochkin in the Internet Movie Database (English)