Sergey Filippov

Sergey Nikolayevich Filippov (, 24 June 1912 – 19 April 1990) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor and comedian, best known for his parts in films Adventures of Korzinkina, The Night Patrol (1957), and the adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's classic The Twelve Chairs (1971), which granted him the People's Artist of the RSFSR title in 1974.

Biography Filippov was born in Saratov. His father was a factory turner, his mother a dressmaker. Expelled from school for bad behaviour (involving, reportedly, dangerous experiments in the cabinet of a chemistry teacher), he tried several jobs (a baker’s boy, a carpenter, a turner) before joining a ballet studio, which in 1929 sent him to Moscow for further education.

Filippov enrolled into the recently formed Popular Music and Circus college which he graduated in 1933 to join the Moscow Ballet and Opera Theatre troupe. The heart problem forced Filippov to drop out, though; soon he found himself in the Saint Petersburg Comedy Theatre, led by Nikolay Akimov, where he became one of the leading actors.

In the 1940s Filippov created a gallery of crooks, loafers, and eccentrics on screen. Well-versed in the history of film, he never copied his favourite comics. "I usually play the Soviet people, my contemporaries, so in each character I look for a social motif," he once said. One of his best-known parts of the time was that of a crooked shop director Polzikov in Night Patrol.

Private life Filippov's first wife was the ballet dancer Alevtina Gorinovich, with whom he fathered a son, Yuri Sergeyevich Filippov (29 September 1938 – 4 February 2020). In the early 1950s, soon after his first marriage ended in divorce, Filippov remarried, to Antonina Golubeva (1899–1989), a writer of children's books.

Filmography The Defense of Volotchayevsk (1937) as partisan The Vyborg Side (1939) as storehouse wrecker Yakov Sverdlov (1940) as sailor anarchist Member of the Government (1940) as saboteur Musical Story (1940) as Babashkin We from the Urals (1943) as Andrei Stepanovich Kashchey the Immortal (1944) as executioner Hello Moscow! (1945) as Semyon Semyonovich Brykin A Noisy Household (1946) as Krauss Cinderella (1947) as Corporal Light over Russia (1947) as speculator The Boys from Leningrad (1954) as jealous husband seeing off his wife in the port Did We Meet Somewhere Before (1954) as unhappy photographer client Tamer of Tigers (1954) as Kazimir Almazov Twelfth Night (1955) as Fabian the servant Carnival Night (1956) as Comrade Nekadilov, lecturer Different Fortunes (1956) as Kostya, Roshchin's driver Honeymoon (1956) as Sergey Nikolayevich Fyodorov, ferryman Trista let tomu... (1956) as monk The Girl Without an Address (1957) as Vasily Nikodimych Komarinsky Gutta-percha Boy (1957) as doorman Prokhor Street Full of Surprises (1957) as guard A Girl with Guitar (1958) as Fyodor Fyodorovich Mamin-Skvortsovsky The Unamenables (1959) as policeman Be Careful, Grandma! (1960) as Innokenty Prokhorovich "Kesha" Prokhorov Absolutely Seriously (1961) as almanac presenter How Robinson Was Created (1961) as writer Moldavantsev / Robinson Crusoe Cherry Town (1962) as neighbor Mylkin Velká cesta (1962) as mayor The Serf Actress (1963) as Yelpidifor manager Summer is Over (1963) as Nikolai Yerofeyevich Bulyshev Little Hare (1964) as Boris Mikhailovich, theater director The Cook (1965) as market thief The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers (1968) as Koshkin the apothecary The Snow Maiden (1968) as Bermyata Don't Grieve (1969) as Eros the barber Shadow (1971) as Prime minister The Twelve Chairs (1971) as Ippolit Matveyevich "Kisa" Vorobyaninov Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973) as Swedish ambassador Tsarevich Prosha (1974) as Chieftain of robbers It Can't Be! (1975) as singer at wedding The Blue Bird (1976) as Pleasure of Not Understanding How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder (1977) as overseas doctor Incognito from St. Petersburg (1977) as Osip, Khlestakov's servant Late Meeting (1978) as Sergey Nikolayevich Die Fledermaus (1979) as forester / waiter The Nightingale (1979) as senior adviser Borrowing Matchsticks (1980) as Hyvärinen The Donkey's Hide (1982) as courtier In the Old Rhythms (1982) as Sergey Gennadyevich, chief of militsiya Sportloto-82 (1982) as station chief And Then Came Bumbo... (1984) as ringmaster Dangerous for Your Life! (1985) as gentle visitor The Tale about the Painter in Love (1987) as chief sage Heart of a Dog (1988) as Preobrazhensky's patient Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation (1989) as angry old man