Biography
Georgy Mikhailovich Vitsin (Russian: Георгий Михайлович Вицин; 18 April 1917 – 22 October 2001) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1990). Vitsin was born in Terijoki, former Finland, now Zelenogorsk, Saint Petersburg in 1917 (Soviet documents list him as having been born in Petrograd — now Saint Petersburg). He enjoyed a long acting career and continued performing until close to the end of his life. Apart from playing with Yuri Nikulin and Yevgeny Morgunov, he appeared in dozens of films that earned him the adoration of millions.Modest and sympathetic characters played by Vitsin evoked kindly feelings of viewers. At the same time the actor played in detective, historical and lyrical feature films.His first film roles date to the 1940s. He gained nationwide popularity in the former Soviet Union with the emergence of a series of 1960s comedies by director Leonid Gaidai. He played the role of the Coward among a trio of colorful, scheming characters in such Gaidai movies as Bootleggers (1962), Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (1965), and Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967). The last two subsequently beat the Soviet all-time record of ticket sales. The trio of actors, including the late Yuri Nikulin and Yevgeny Morgunov, was "the most popular ensemble in the history of the national cinema." In 1990, he was awarded the top artistic title of the Soviet era, that of People's Artist of the USSR.In spite of the plenty of his characters Vitsin's talent deserved something greater and he never played the major role of his life. “Vitsin is awfully gifted and both of us together are not worth his finger”, his partners Nikulin and Morgunov said about him.According to film director Nikita Mikhalkov, Vitsin "was one of those rare people and actors whom upon meeting, you immediately feel as if they must know just as much about you as you know about them." According to Mikhalkov, Vitsin was also rare in that his popularity did not affect his personality. He was modest to the point that even in the years leading up to his death, when his financial circumstances were abysmal, he never asked for help. Russian media reported that Vitsin had declined into alcoholism and vagrancy but these reports were false.During the last seven years of his life Georgy Vitsin did not act in films and appeared only in comic concerts of the Theatre of Film Actor.
He died on 22 October 2001 at 4:30 p.m. He was buried at Vagankovo Cemetery, Moscow.A monument to Georgy Vitsin was established in Zelenogorsk in 2008 marking the town's 460th jubilee and the 90th anniversary since the actor's birthday.
Filmography
all 200
Movies 195
Voice 8
TV Shows 5
Narrator 3
Director 2
Khagi-tragger (1994)
A Few Love Stories (1994)
Brave guys (1993)
The Actors (1992)
Shot in the Coffin (1992)
Простой мужик (1992)
The Adventures of the Magic Globe or Witch's Tricks (1991)
Николай Угодник и охотники (1991)
Сладкая репа (1990)
Return of Brownie (1987)
The Snowmen (1986)
Tale for Natasha (1986)
Dangerous for Your Life! (1985)
Соперницы (1985)
Adventures of Brownie (1985)
One Day of Mosfilm (1985)
Elephant Went to Study (1984)
How the Puppy Was Taught to Swim (1984)
I Want the Moon (1984)
Underground Crossing (1984)
A House for Kuzka (1984)
I Don't Want to and I Won't! (1984)
Бюро находок (Фильм 4) (1984)
KOAPP (1984)
Little Brownie Kuzya (1984)
Investigation Held by Kolobkis. Theft of the century (1983)
Бюро находок (Фильм 3) (1983)
Следствие ведут Колобки (1983)
Sladkiy rodnik (1982)
Maria, Mirabella (1982)
Бюро находок (Фильм 2) (1982)
Бюро находок (Фильм 1) (1982)
Бюро находок (1982)
Birthday (1982)
Hands Up! (1981)
The Winter's Tale (1981)
A Comedy of Days Gone By (1980)
For the Matches (1980)
Vacations in Prostokvashino (1980)
How the Fox Chased the Hare (1979)
Сами виноваты (1979)
Как утёнок-музыкант стал футболистом (1978)
Робинзон Кузя (1978)
Father Frost and the Grey Wolf (1978)
The Smallest Gnome (1977)
Kak griby s Gorokhom voevali (1977)
Rabbit and Fly (1977)
The Twelve Chairs (1977)
Эти невероятные музыканты, или Новые сновидения Шурика (1977)
While the Clocks Are Ticking (1976)
A Funny Dream, or Laughter and Tears (1976)
The Blue Bird (1976)
Shepherd Yanka (1976)
Все непонятливые (1976)
Весёлое сновидение, или Смех сквозь слёзы (1976)
The Sun, the Sun Again (1976)
Finest, the Brave Falcon (1975)
Step Forward (1975)
Ау-у! (1975)
The Humpbacked Horse (1975)
It Can't Be! (1975)
Vials (1975)
Big Attraction (1974)
Царевич Проша (1974)
Северная рапсодия (1974)
Car, Violin and Blot the Dog (1974)
The Dear Boy (1974)
My Destiny (1974)
Have you ever loved? (1974)
The Bag Of Apples (1974)
Cipollino (1973)
The Sannikov Land (1973)
Incorrigible Liar (1973)
The Tobacco Captain (1972)
Утёнок, который не умел играть в футбол (1972)
Gentlemen of Fortune (1971)
Deadly Enemy (1971)
Ten (1971)
Spring Tale (1971)
12 Chairs (1971)
How We Were Searching for Tishka (1971)
The Guardian (1970)
A Step from the Roof (1970)
Бобры идут по следу (1970)
New Year's Abduction (1970)
Yesterday, Today and Always (1970)
Absent-Minded Giovanni (1969)
In the Thirteenth Hour of the Night (1969)
The Baby-Goat, Who Counted up to Ten (1968)
Seven Old Men and One Girl (1968)
A Very Old Story (1968)
Save the Drowning Man (1968)
Хочу бодаться! (1968)
Film, Film, Film (1968)
How to Become a Grown-Up (1967)
Elephant (1967)
Red, Blue, Green (1967)
One, Two, Altogether! (1967)
Сказки для больших и маленьких (1967)
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)
Train From Romashkovo (1967)
The Tale of the Golden Rooster (1967)
A Little Time Machine (1967)
Удивительная история, похожая на сказку (1966)
About the Hippopotamus Who Was Afraid of Inoculations (1966)
Road to the Sea (1966)
Rainbow Formula (1966)
Who Invented the Wheel? (1966)
It Also Happens (1966)
Go There, Don't Know Where (1966)
Новогодний календарь (1966)
Голубой огонек - в первый час (1965)
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1965)
The First Teacher (1965)
Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965)
Where have I seen him? (1965)
The Adventures of Full Stop and Comma (1965)
The Marriage of Balzaminov (1964)
Little Hare (1964)
Give Me a Complaints Book (1964)
Thumbelina (1964)
The Brave Tailor (1964)
Spring Chores (1964)
A Tale of Lost Times (1964)
What is the Theory of Relativity? (1964)
The First Trolleybus (1963)
Cain the XVIII-th (1963)
Three Fat Men (1963)
Businessmen (1963)
Kak rozhdayutsya tosty (1963)
Short Stories (1963)
The Tale of the Old Cedar (1963)
The Road to Berth (1962)
Молчат только статуи (1962)
Артист из Кохановки (1962)
Bootleggers (1962)
Dve skazki (1962)
Valuable Kopeck (1961)
Sovershenno seryozno (1961)
Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross (1961)
The End of Old Beryozovka (1961)
Family Chronicle (1961)
The Key (1961)
Cipollino (1961)
A Sober Sparrow (1960)
The Thirteenth Flight (1960)
It Was I Who Drew the Little Man (1960)
Different Wheels (1960)
The End of the Black Swamp (1960)
Mest (1960)
The Adventures of Buratino (1959)
Василий Суриков (1959)
Fathers and Sons (1959)
I Was a Sputnik of the Sun (1959)
At Exactly Three Fifteen ... (1959)
Three Woodcutters (1959)
How Ivan Ivanovich fell out with Ivan Nikiforovich (1959)
Beloved Beauty (1959)
Коловращение жизни (1958)
The Boy from Napoli (1958)
A Groom from the Right Society (1958)
A Girl with Guitar (1958)
The Cat's House (1958)
The Wrestler and the Clown (1957)
Chudesnitsa (1957)
Once Upon a Time (1957)
Don Quixote (1957)
New Attraction (1957)
The Tale of the Snow Maiden (1957)
Wishes Fulfillment (1957)
Verlioka (1957)
Poet (1957)
The Little Ship (1956)
Adventures of Murzilka (1956)
She Loves You (1956)
The Ugly Duckling (1956)
Murder on Dante Street (1956)
The Mexican (1956)
Little Shego (1956)
The Stork (1956)
The Twelve Months (1956)
Maksim Perepelitsa (1955)
Twelfth Night (1955)
What Kind of Bird Is This? (1955)
A Hazel Tree Twig (1955)
A Brave Hare (1955)
The Snow Postman (1955)
The Enchanted Boy (1955)
The Boys from Leningrad (1954)
An Arrow Flies Into a Fairy Tale (1954)
The Orange Neck (1954)
A Goat-Musician (1954)
Magic Store (1953)
Belinsky (1953)
Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka (1953)
Man of Music (1952)
The High Hill (1951)
The Hunchedback Horse (1947)
A Peacock's Tail (1946)
Hello, Moscow! (1945)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1917-04-05
Deathday2001-10-22 (84 years old)
Birth NameГеоргий Михайлович Вицын
Birth PlaceZelenogorsk, Russia
ReligionEastern Orthodoxy
CitizenshipsSoviet Union, Russia
Also Known AsГеоргий Вицин, Georgi Mikhailovich Vitsin, G. Vitsin, G. Vitsiner, Georgi Vitzin, Georgi Wizin , Георгий Михайлович Вицын
AwardsPeople's Artist of the USSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Merited Artist of the RSFSR, Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow", Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
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