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Viktor Antonovich Avdyushko (Russian: Виктор Антонович Авдюшко; January 11, 1925 – November 19, 1975) was a Soviet actor and a People's Artist of the Russian SFSR.




Biography






= Early life

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Avdyushko was born to a father who worked as a weight inspector in the Kiyevsky Rail Terminal and to a housewife mother, who also raised one older daughter. Initially a student in the Moscow Aviation Institute, he left it and was admitted into the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, where he studied under Yuli Raizman. He graduated from the academy in 1949, and joined the regular cast of the Mosfilm studio.




= Breakthrough

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He made his debut on screen with a minor role in Sergei Gerasimov's 1948 film The Young Guard. Avdyushko continued to play supporting characters during the following years, in pictures such as Cossacks of the Kuban and Hostile Whirlwinds. He was given his first major appearance in the 1955 Heroes of Shipka, when he depicted the Russian soldier Osnobishin.
In 1957, Avdyushko was cast for the leading role in Mikhail Schweitzer's Tight Knot, adapted from a story by Vladimir Tendryakov. He portrayed Pavel Mansurov, an idealist Kolkhoz general secretary who is corrupted by the power of his office. The film had to be heavily censured in order to be released, and its title was changed to Sasha Comes to Life. The full version was only released in 1988.




= Summit

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The actor starred in many films during the 1960s and early 1970s, and performed in fifty until the end of his career, including the 1961 Biennale Jury Prize winning Peace to Him Who Enters and the 1964 The Alive and the Dead, based on Konstantin Simonov's novel. He also worked with foreign studios, mainly East Germany's DEFA: He played in Konrad Wolf's 1958 Sun Seekers and in Frank Beyer's 1963 Naked among Wolves. In 1972, he appeared in The Dawns Here Are Quiet, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
On 26 November 1965, Avdyushko was awarded the title Meritorious Artist of the Russian SFSR. On 28 March 1974, he was granted the title of a People's Artist of the RSFSR He was married to Estonian actress Liina Orlova, with whom he had one daughter, future actress Marija Avdyushko-Taska.
In early 1975, as he was working on a picture in Vladivostok during winter, Avdyushko entered the cold ocean water for a scene. He developed severe Pleural empyema, of which he died seven months later. He is buried in the Vagankovo Cemetery.




Selected filmography


The Young Guard (1948) as worker
Cossacks of the Kuban (1950) as stableman
V mirnye dni (1951) as Stepn Matveyev - vodolaz
Admiral Ushakov (1953)
Hostile Whirlwinds (1953) as Kovalyov
Bogatyr idyot v Marto (1954) as inzhener Aleksey Kolos
Heroes of Shipka (1955) as Osnobishin
Urok zhizni (1955) as Vasya
Doroga (1955) as Vasya
Solovyov in Prolog (1956) as Fyodor - bolshevik
Oni vstretilis v puti (1957) as Makar Semyonov
Sasha vstupayet v zhizn (1957) as Pavel Mansurov
Vosemnadtsatyy god (1958) as Ivan Gora
Hard Happiness (1958) as Seryoga Gvozdenko
Sun Seekers (1958) as Sergei Melnikow
Khmuroe utro (1959) as Ivan Gora
Fathers and Sons (1959) as Yevgeniy Bazarov
Vsyo nachinayetsya s dorogi (1960) as Stepan Bokov
Russkiy suvenir (1960) as Spikhnulin
Chudotvornaya (1960) as Kushchin - sekretar raykoma
V nachale veka (1961) as Prokhor Baskakov
Peace to Him Who Enters (1961) as Ivan Yamshchikov
Nash obshchiy drug as Prokhor Korniyets
Gde-to est syn as Matros
Naked among Wolves (1963) as Leonid Bogorski
Introduction to Life (1963) as Bobrov
The Alive and the Dead (1964) as Sergeant Shestakov
Gorod - odna ulitsa (1964) as Demidov
Strogaya igra (1964)
Thirty Three (1965) as Misha
Poka front v oborone (1965) as kapitan Shaternikov
Gde ty teper, Maksim? (1965) as Grigorich
An Ordinary Miracle (1965) as innkeeper
Rabochiy posyolok (1966) as Grisha
Puteshestvennik s bagazhom (1966) as Nikolay Chistov
Proshchay (1967) as Matvey Podymakhin
The Red and the White (1967) as sailor
Zhitiye i vozneseniye Yurasya Bratchika (1967)
V den svadby (1969) as Nikolay SAlov - brat Nyury
Subject for a Short Story (1969) as Krestyanin
Zasada (1969) as Pirozhenko (narrator)
Liberation I: The Fire Bulge (1970) as Major Maksimov
Den i vsya zhizn (1970) as Fedor
Strange People (1970) as predsedatel kolkhoza (segment "Rokovoj vystrel")
Pesn o Manshuk (1970) as Sukov
Liberation III: Direction of the Main Blow (1971) as Maksimov
Konets atamana (1971) as Nikolay Suvorov
Serdtse Rossii (1971) as Aleksey Vedernikov
Kogda raskhoditsya tuman (1972) as Pyotr Dyakonov
The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972) as assistant platoon commander
U nas na zavode (1972) as Anikov
Januskopf (1972) as Slatkow
A Man at His Place (1973) as Vasiliy Serov
Nam nekogda zhdat (1973) as Fyodor
The Great Battle (1973) as Major Maksimov
I na Tikhom Okeane... (1974) as Nikita Yegorovich Vershinin
The Rider with Lightning in His Hand (1975) as Andrey Dmitrievich
Jarosław Dąbrowski (1976) as Wladislaw Ozierow
When September Comes (1976) as Yevgeniy Viktorovich
Soldiers of Freedom (1977, TV Mini-Series) as Marshal Ivan Konev (final appearance)




References






External links


Viktor Avdyushko at IMDb

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• Thirty Three (film)
• The Living and the Dead (1964 film)
• A Man at His Place
• The Red and the White
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• Workers' Settlement
• Fathers and Sons (1958 film)
• Naked Among Wolves (1963 film)
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