Les Serdiuk

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Serdyuk , also known as Les Serdyuk (; 14 October 1940 – 26 May 2010), was a Soviet and Ukrainian theater and film actor. He received the title of People's Artist of Ukraine.

Biography Born into a family of People's Artist of the USSR Aleksandr Ivanovich Serdyuk. In 1961 he graduated from Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts.

From 1961 to 1964, he was an actor of the Taras Shevchenko Kharkiv Academic Ukrainian Drama Theatre. He was subsequently an actor at the Riga Youth Theatre for an additional two years before joining the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama. In 1970, he began working with Dovzhenko Film Studios.

In 2008, after a 37-year break, he returned to the stage as part of the troupe of the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater.

Death He died on May 26, 2010, at the age of 69 in Kyiv due to lung cancer, which was diagnosed in the actor in the spring of 2009. He underwent chemotherapy treatment in Kyiv, but it was unsuccessful. He was buried on May 28 at Baikove Cemetery.

Selected filmography

1954: Marina's Destiny as Gnat Petrovich Podkova 1968: In the Kyiv area as Mykhailo Burmystenko 1968: The Experiment of Dr. Abst as Bruno 1970: Sespel as episode 1972: Criminal Investigation Inspector as Aleksei Mikhailovich Sharun 1972: Night Rider as Savchenko 1972: Lavri as Tokovoy 1978: Zestoke godine as Latyshev 1979: Babylon XX as Danko 1981: Such Late, Such Warm Autumn as Melety / Ivan Meletyevich 1984: The Legend of Princess Olga as Prince Sviatoslav I 1988: The Mountains are Smoking (TV Movie) as Martin Pogodnyak 1989: Seromanets as Vasily Chepizhny 1991: The First Рrinter Revelation as Garaburda 1995: Stracheni svitanki as episode 1997: Roksolana as Kasim Pasha 2002: A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa as Ivan Samoylovych 2009: Taras Bulba as Dmytro