Soviet and Russian actor
Yevgeny Vesnik |
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 Vesnik in 1998 |
| Born | (1923-01-15)15 January 1923
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| Died | 10 April 2009(2009-04-10) (aged 86)
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| Occupation | actor |
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Yevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik (Russian: Евге́ний Я́ковлевич Ве́сник; 15 January 1923 in Petrograd – 10 April 2009 in Moscow[1]) was a Soviet and Russian actor. The son of Yakov Vesnik,[2] the first director of the Kryvorizhstal plant, he fought the Germans in World War II. He worked at the Maly Theatre from 1963 and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1989, three years before his retirement from the stage.[2]
Career
Primarily a comedian, Vesnik is remembered as the first Soviet actor to play the character of Ostap Bender. After he was remembered as Taratar in The Adventures of the Elektronic (1979), one of greatest Soviet films for children'.[2]
Among his other roles are the policeman in Old Khottabych, boss of sport complex in Seven Old Men and a Girl, procurator in Die Fledermaus, commissioner in Charodei (1982), radist in Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach and many other films.[1]
He died, aged 86, on 10 April 2009 in Moscow after suffering a stroke.[3]
