Yuriy Sarantsev

Yuri Dmitriyevich Sarantsev (; 7 October 1928 – 24 August 2005) was a Soviet and Russian actor who appeared in numerous films between 1950 and 1999. He is most known for the 1962 sci-fi film Planeta Bur. He was also an accomplished voice actor, most famous for providing the voice for Ostap Bender in The Twelve Chairs. People's Artist of Russia (2000).

Filmography The Village Doctor (1951) – cook (uncredited) True Friends (1954) – Seryozha Road to Life (1955) – Grisha Burun Good Morning (1955) – Vasya Plotnikov Different Fortunes (1956) – Galkin A Snow Fairy Tale (1959) – chauffeur's voice (played by Mikhail Pugovkin) Thrice Resurrected (1960) – Anton's voice (played by Gennady Pavlov) Planeta Bur (1962) – Ivan Shcherba Come Tomorrow, Please... (1963) – Kostya's voice (played by Yuri Gorobets) The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965) – Tarashkin Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) – Allen Sherman (uncredited; in original movie as Shcherba) Thirty Three (1965) – toothless taxi driver Little Fugitive (1966) – captain's assistant Give a Paw, Friend! (1967) – foreman of animal control service The Shield and the Sword (1968) – Gustav's voice (played by Ernst-Georg Schwill) Crime and Punishment (1969) – lieutenant Ilya Petrovich "Gunpowder" The Twelve Chairs (1971) – Ostap Bender's voice (played by Archil Gomiashvili) Train Stop – Two Minutes (1972) – Vlas Petrovich Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle (1973) – Vasily Vasilyevich Talents and Admirers (1973) – Gavrilo Petrovich Migaev You to Me, Me to You (1976) – Sergei Kashkin's voice (played by Leonid Kuravlyov) The Throw, or Everything Started on Saturday (1976) – Temirbek Sarsenbaev's voice (played by Yesbolgan Zhaisanbaev) Armed and Dangerous (1977) – Starbottle's voice (played by Algimantas Masiulis) Balamut (1978) – Aleksei Ivanovich Aquanauts (1979) – Selivanov Borrowing Matchsticks (1980) – Ville Huttunen's voice (played by Olavi Ahonen) Sailors Have No Questions (1980) – Alya's father Could One Imagine? (1981) – taxi driver's voice (played by Vladimir Prikhodko) Demidovs (1983) – voivode A Cruel Romance (1984) – Mikhin Sohni Mahiwal (1984) – warrior's voice in Soviet dub (played by Frunzik Mkrtchyan) One Second for a Feat (1985) – Romanenko Love with Privileges (1989) – Dr. Nikolai Yevgenyevich Kondakov The Return of the Battleship (1996) – janitor Red Square (2004) – Konstantin Chernenko

Awards and honors

Order of the Badge of Honour (1976) Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1981) Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1984) Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" (1997) People's Artist of Russia (2000)