Kononov, Mikhail Ivanovich

He performed in amateur performances with Andrei Smirnov , who later became a well-known film director.

He graduated from the Higher Theater School. M.S.Schepkina in 1963 . Classmates at the school were Victor Pavlov , Vitaly Solomin , Oleg Dal . Until 1968 - actor of the Academic Maly Theater . But at a time when the actor was preparing a big role ( Khlestakov in The Examiner ), accidentally abandoned words caused a scandal, and he urgently had to leave the Maly Theater. Subsequently, he became an actor in a film studio to them. M. Gorky .

The first role - in the film by Ivan Pyryev " Our mutual friend " (1961). The comedy film “The Head of Chukotka ”, where Kononov played Alexei Bychkov, should be considered a bright start to a film career. In the same year, Mikhail Ivanovich played Thomas in the historical and philosophical film of Andrei Tarkovsky " Andrei Rublev ."

The actor gained the most popularity by playing the young teacher Nestor Petrovich Severov in the television series Alexei Korenev's " Big Change ", although he initially refused this role because he did not like the script.

The last role - in the television series " In the first circle " (2006). In general, the actor played in more than 60 films. The most famous roles are junior lieutenant Maleshkin (“ At war as at war ”), Alyosha Semenov (“ There is no ford in the fire ”), Pavlik (“ Beginning ”), Mitka Yarmolyuk (“ Hello and goodbye ”), Akim (“The taiga story ”) ”), Vasily (“ Vasily and Vasilisa ”), space pirate Rats (“ A guest from the future ”), Yashka (film-fairy tale“ Finist - Clear Falcon ”).

The actor was characterized by a combination of soft comic colors with dramatic depth. Kononov himself considered himself a tragicomic actor ^[3] .

Since the early 1990s, the actor appeared on the screen a little. Often refused offers, with the new generation of actors he was not fundamentally friendly and spoke negatively about the state of modern Russian cinema.

In the late 1990s, Kononov had to sell a Moscow apartment and begin many years of building a house in the Istra district in the village of Butyrki .

In the last years of his life, the actor rarely appeared in public and lived in the village of Butyrki, near Moscow, and starred a little. After spending ten years in the village, he bought a small apartment on the Moscow outskirts.

In the 2000s, he wrote a memoir , but not a single publisher accepted it for publication.

In the last years of his life, he suffered a heart attack , thrombophlebitis and was an invalid of group II ^[4] . Two weeks before the death of Kononov, he went to hospital with pneumonia . However, in the hospital, his condition only worsened: he did not have the money to purchase the necessary medicines ^[5] . Against the background of pneumonia, Kononov developed heart failure and thromboembolism . In the evening of July 15, he was transferred to the cardiopulmonary resuscitation department, but the artist could not be saved: on the morning of July 16, 2007, he died of thromboembolism.

The body of the actor, according to the will, was cremated, and the urn with ashes was buried in Moscow , in the columbarium of the Vagankovsky cemetery .

Mikhail Kononov was married (since 1969), married 38 years to his wife Natalya Pavlovna Kononova [19 ^] , they did not have children.

• Honored Artist of the RSFSR ( 1989 )
• People's Artist of Russia ( 1999 ) ^[2]

Theater Roles

• 1965 - “Christmas in the House of Signor Cupiello” by Eduardo de Filippo , Production: L. V. Varpakhovsky - Nenillo

Filmography

Feature films

1. 1961 - Our mutual friend - Victor Karjagin
2. 1962 - Come tomorrow ... - passenger of the bus (not in the credits)
3. 1963 - The first trolleybus - Kolka Chumakov
4. 1963 - Now let him go - Tommy, a hotel worker
5. 1963 - Morning trains - guest at the wedding (not in the credits)
6. 1964 - Goodbye, boys - Vitya Anikin
7. 1966 - Head of Chukotka - Alexey Mikhailovich Bychkov (A. Glazkov according to the mandate)
8. 1966 - Andrei Rublev - Thomas
9. 1967 - There is no ford in the fire - Alyosha Semenov
10. 1968 - At war as at war - Alexander Maleshkin, junior lieutenant, commander of self-propelled guns
11. 1969 - White weather vane - Vasily Vasilievich Krutogorov, security officer
12. 1969 - Boys - Gosh
13. 1970 - Start - Pavlik, Pasha’s neighbor
14. 1971 - Are you kidding? - student
15. 1971 - Hold on to the Clouds - Sokolov, Sailor
16. 1972 - Hello and goodbye - Mitka Yarmolyuk, husband of Alexandra
17. 1972 - Red bees - Vasily
18. 1972 - Fifteenth Spring - German Officer
19. 1973 - Big Break - Nestor Petrovich Severov, history teacher
20. 1973 - Opening - Sergei Yurishev in his youth (voiced by Alexander Demyanenko )
21. 1974 - Finisher - Clear Falcon - Clerk Yasha
22. 1975 - Captain Nemo - Consel
23. 1976 - Seventy-two degrees below zero - Toshka Zhmurkin
24. 1976 - Twenty days without a war - Pasha Rubtsov, military commander
25. 1976 - A Tale of an Unknown Actor - Petya Strizhov
26. 1976 - While the clock strikes - Rodent, chief of the royal guard
27. 1977 - Almanzor Rings - Zenziver, the Gardener
28. 1978 - Comedy of Errors - Dromio of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus
29. 1978 - Love and Fury - Kolya
30. 1978 - Sibiriada - Rodion Klimentov, revolutionary militant (voiced by Viktor Proskurin )
31. 1978 - Only a drop of soul
32. 1979 - The taiga story - Akim
33. 1979 - Look for the wind ... - Vaska, Konokrad
34. 1980 - No other way
35. 1980 - Investigation - Losev, police officer
36. 1981 - Andrew and the evil sorcerer - Leshy
37. 1981 - Vasily and Vasilisa - Vasily Vologzhin
38. 1982 - Brothers (short) - Mikhail
39. 1982 - For no apparent reason - Vazhin
40. 1982 - Station for two - Nikolasha, a policeman
41. 1982 - Crazy day of engineer Barkasov - Ivan Tyatin, deputy Barkasov
42. 1983 - Goldfish - Cornelius Ivanovich Udalov
43. 1983 - Special occasion
44. 1983 - Burn, burn clearly ... - Senka
45. 1984 - A guest from the future - Rats, space pirate / spaceport employee Mikhail Ivanovich
46. 1984 - Alone and without weapons - Peter, doorman
47. 1986 - Tricks in the old spirit - Alex
48. 1987 - She is with a broom, he is in a black hat - a magician
49. 1987 - First meeting, last meeting - Pogilevich, former detective
50. 1987 - Broken circle - Tsarkov, warehouse manager
51. 1987 - Christians - Crazy Listener in Court
52. 1989 - Pirs Belshazzar, or Night with Stalin - director of the sanatorium
53. 1990 - I wish you good health! or Crazy demobilization - battalion commander, captain Bodrov
54. 1990 - Royal Hunt - Kustov
55. 1991 - Memento Mori - Dermantin, Railwayman
56. 1992 - The inner circle - Voroshilov
57. 1992 - The Great Ant Way
58. 1992 - The Beautiful Stranger
59. 1993 - Remembering Chekhov
60. 1994 - Chicken Ryaba - father Nicodemus
61. 1997 - Tsarevich Alexey - Fedoska
62. 1997 - The Huntsman - Egor Vlasych
63. 2000 - Showcase - Dad
64. 2006 - In the first circle - Spiridon Danilych, janitor

TV Shows

1. 1963 - Pavlik Morozov - Danilka

Cartoon Sounding

1. 1971 - Argonauts - Colchis Warrior (not in the credits)
2. 1977 - Vasilisa the Beautiful - Ivan Tsarevich / old man-lesovichok
3. 1980 - Navigation of the Sun - Styopa
4. 1981 - The Adventures of Vasya Kurolesov - Vasya Kurolesov
5. 1983 - Shell - Porcupine
6. 1984 - Underpass - Badger
7. 1986 - Desert Ship - Porcupine
8. 1990 - Duck Tales - Chef Gavs, Bobblehead, Donald Duck , King Archie
9. 1994 - Pages of Russian history. First Story: Land of the Ancestors - Spider Vasily
10. 1996 - Kings and Cabbage - Felipe
11. 1997 - Dunno on the Moon - editor Grizzle , scientist-astronomer ("Znayka hurries to help")

Scoring movies

1. 1973 - Absolutely missing - a man on the pier (actor Yuri Chernov )
2. 1973 - The incredible adventures of Italians in Russia - Giuseppe (actor Ninetto Davoli )
3. 1980 - Through hardships to the stars - Pyotr Petrovich Lebedev (actor Vaclav Dvorzhetsky ) - scoring the new version, 2001
4. 1981 - Tale told at night - Hugo, apprentice (actor Dmitry Kravtsov)
5. 1984 - A Novel with a Stone - Ralph (actor Danny De Vito )
6. 1984 - Communication through the pizzeria - Vincenzo (actor Tony Sperandeo)
7. 1986 - Above the Rainbow - Ivan Ivanovich (actor Yuri Kuklachev )

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