Robert Gorodetsky

Robert Shimshonovich (Semyonovich) Gorodetsky (; born April 10, 1940) is a Soviet and Russian clown and actor.

Gorodetsky to create a recognizable image of a skinny intellectual in a frock coat and a black hat.

Biography Robert Gorodetsky was born April 10, 1940, in Leningrad in a family of theater artist.

He studied in the studio of pantomime at the House of Culture Lensoviet (Leningrad). He worked in the Leningrad Oblast Philharmonic. Was equilibrists on a wire, valuecolumns on unicycle biking, illusionist, juggler. But in the end it became a clown.

Since 1982, Robert Gorodetsky serves clown-mime theater Litsedeyi (Russian for "mummers" or literally "people who make faces").

In 1991, after the departure of Slava Polunin abroad, Robert Gorodetsky led theater. Gorodetsky had been in a coma for more than three weeks. The criminals have not been found.

Robert Gorodetsky back on stage August 2, 2006, while passing in Moscow "Planet of Clowns" annual festival. To do this, the actor chose his most famous number - Blue Canary.