Biography
Yefim Zakharovich Kopelyan (Russian: Ефим Захарович Копелян; 12 April 1912 – 6 March 1975) was a Soviet actor of theatre and cinema, one of the legendary masters of the Bolshoi Theatre of Drama (BDT) in Leningrad. He performed bright, characteristic roles in the films The Elusive Avengers, Intervention, Eternal Call, The Straw Hat, and many others. He is also known for the voice-over in the hit TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring.He was born in the Belarusian town Rechytsa into a Jewish family. After graduation, he worked as a metal craftsman at the plant Krasny Putilovets in Leningrad. In 1930, he entered the architectural department of the Academy of fine arts. In his students years he earned additionally as supernumerary in the BTD, entered to the studio of this theatre (course of K.K.Tverskoy).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.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. Georgi Tovstonogov employed Kopelyan almost in all premiers of theatre. With his name are connected all best plays BDT.
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), Sergo Ordzhonikidze (Kochubey, 1958), Nalbandov (Time, forward!, 1966), Burnash (The Elusive Avengers, 1967), 1971: Cossack Leader Ataman in epic film Dauria (1971 film) (Даурия), Burtsev (The Story about human heart, 1975), Beybutov (Yaroslav Dombrovsky, 1976), etc. Among his best cinematic roles were Savva Morozov (Nikolai Bauman; the prize of the All-Union film festival, 1968), Svidrigaylov (Crime and punishment, 1970). He acted in television films Old fortress (1973), Crash of engineer Garin, and Eternal call.
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.
Filmography
all 71
Movies 65
TV Shows 6
Voice 5
Narrator 1
Director 1
Story of a Human Heart (1976)
Jarosław Dąbrowski (1976)
Eternal Call (1976)
Olga Sergeevna (1975)
Olga Sergeevna (1975)
Соломенная шляпка (1975)
Северный вариант (1974)
Открытая книга (1974)
The Executive (1974)
The Straw Hat (1974)
Старая крепость (1974)
Starlit Minute (1974)
Это сильнее меня (1974)
Failure of Engineer Garin (1973)
Failure of Engineer Garin (1973)
Grandmaster (1973)
Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
The Chronicle of the Night (1973)
Yegor Bulychyov and Others (1973)
Тайник у красных камней (1973)
The Seagull (1972)
Dauria (1971)
Mission in Kabul (1971)
Peace to the Huts, War to the Palaces (1971)
The Beginning (1970)
Crime and Punishment (1970)
The Secret Agent's Destiny (1970)
Adam and Eve (1970)
Dangerous Tour (1969)
Director (1969)
Наши знакомые (1969)
Crash (1969)
The Truth! Nothing but the Truth! (1969)
Her Name Is Spring (1969)
People of Earth and Sky (1969)
Thunderstorm Over Belaya (1968)
The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers (1968)
The Secret Agent's Blunder (1968)
Intervention (1968)
Sofiya Perovskaya (1968)
Семь нот в тишине (1967)
Особое мнение (1967)
Nikolay Bauman (1967)
The Elusive Revengers (1967)
Women Kingdom (1967)
On the Same Planet (1966)
The Twenty Six Comissars (1966)
Time, Forward! (1965)
How Do I Call You Now?.. (1965)
Fear and Despair in the Third Empire (1965)
A Dream (1964)
Conscience Doesn't Forgive (1964)
Goodbye, Boys! (1964)
Рембрандт (1963)
All Remains to People (1963)
Зима тревоги нашей (1963)
The Very First Space (1962)
Молчат только статуи (1962)
713th Asks for Landing (1961)
Третья, патетическая (1960)
The Girl from Tyan-Shan (1960)
Dostigayev and Others (1959)
Kochubey (1958)
Baltic Glory (1958)
Пролог (1956)
Old Man Khottabych (1956)
Искатели (1956)
The Gadfly (1955)
Zhambyl (1953)
Boxers (1941)
Tanker "Derbent" (1941)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1912-04-12
Deathday1975-03-06 (62 years old)
Birth PlaceRečyca, Belarus
SpouseLyudmila Makarova
SiblingsIsaak Kopelyan
CitizenshipsRussian Empire, Soviet Union
Also Known AsYefim Kopelyan , Ye. Kopelyan, Ефим Копелян, Копелян Ефим Захарович
AwardsMedal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad", Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR, Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad", Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", People's Artist of the USSR, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", People's Artist of the RSFSR, Merited Artist of the RSFSR
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