Background
ULYANOV, Mikhail was born on November 20, 1927 in. Tara, Omsk District. Son of Aleksandr Andreevich Ulyanov and Elizaveta Mikhailovna Ulyanova.
ULYANOV, Mikhail was born on November 20, 1927 in. Tara, Omsk District. Son of Aleksandr Andreevich Ulyanov and Elizaveta Mikhailovna Ulyanova.
Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute.
They Were The First 1956, The Volunteers 1958, A Simple Story 1960, The Battle on the Way 1961, The Chairman 1964 (Lenin; The Very Last Day 1973, Brothers Karamazov (part 3).Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov spent his childhood and youth in the town of Tara, Omsk Oblast. Although he had failed his exams in Schepkinskoe School and for the Moscow Art Theatre School, he moved to Omsk in 1944 to become an actor. After two years of studies in the studio at Omsk Drama he went to Moscow and entered the Schukin Theatre School in 1946.
Ulyanov worked in the Vakhtangov Theatre from 1950 and directed it from 1987.
He played a wide range of characters on stage, with Rogozhin in Dostoevsky’s Idiot being the most remarkable of them. In 1979 he staged Vasily Shukshin’s epic novel I have come to give you freedom, where he starred as Stepan Razin.
In 1985 Mikhail Ulyanov staged the satirical pamphlet The Child Buyer by the American playwright John Hersey. As regards movies, he was frequently cast in the parts of staunch Communist leaders like Vladimir Lenin and Marshal Zhukov.
His well-known character Yegor Trubnikov in Predsedatel (Chairman) (1964) became a Soviet classic and his most emblematic role.
More recently, he was acclaimed for the roles of Julius Caesar in the screening of Shakespeare"s play (1990), Pontius Pilate in the film adaptation of, and an avenging veteran marksman in, directed by Stanislav Govorukhin. He died on March 26, 2007 of intestinal disease. Hero of Socialist Labour (1986).
Hero of Socialist Labour (1986) Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd class (17 October 1996) - Foreign services to the state and an outstanding contribution to theatrical art Two Orders of Lenin (1986, ?) Order of the October Revolution (1977) Lenin Prize (1966) - for his performance as Yegor Ivanovich Trubnikov in the feature film "The Chairman" Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic State Prize, Stanislavsky (1975) - for his role in the play Druyanova "Day in and day out," Alabama Veytslera and A. Misharin Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Prize (1983) - for playing Sergei Nikitich Abrikosov in the movie "Private Lives" (1982) People"s Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1965) People"s Artist of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (1969) Honoured Worker of Culture of the Polish People"s Republic (1974) "Golden Lion" (Venice Film Festival, 1982) for starring in the movie "Private Lives" Order "Foreign honour and valour" - for service to the Russian people and the badge "Golden Olympus" (2005) Sole honorary title of "Superstar" (2005) Kinotavr Award nomination for "Prize for creative careers" (1997) Award "Golden Aries" in 1999 for "Best Actor" Russian Federation President Prize in Literature and Art in 1998 Prize "Crystal Turandot" (1997) Golden Mask (1999) Award "Idol" (1999) In 2008, Russia"s new arctic oil tanker has been named "Mikhail Ulyanov".
Cinematographers’ Union of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Married Alla Petrovna Parfanyak in 1959.