Vasily Borisovich Livanov

Born July 19, 1935.

Master of the national cinema - actor, director, playwright, painter. Artist of the most diverse roles: from the young heroes to the eccentric old people, from kings to the Knights. Best Performer of the Sherlock Holmes in world cinema.

Vasily Livanov knows how much, and each case he is given full. He and an actor who has a role Dzerzhinsky and Nicholas I, Sherlock Holmes and Don Quixote. He and the director, brought the number of popular cartoons ( 'the most, very, very, very', 'Memories of Bremen musicians', 'Blue Bird') and wrote the scripts for them. Besides, he is the author of two collections of stories, books of fairy tales and plays. Voice Livanova said Carlson, Crocodile Gena, boas, Zilzilya and other cartoon characters.

The son of the famous Moscow Art Theater, Basil Lebanon - an independent person who prefers to be outside the state, so he did not stay long in any one theater and one of the first began to work on contracts. With Julian Semyonov, they organized a unique theater 'Detective' at the Lubyanka, where to put not only an action of the play, but children's plays. However, to find common language with the Ministry of Interior did not succeed, and after four years of existence, the theater was closed.

Basil Lebanon - Artist of the wide range, thoughtful, sincere, deeply emotional and selective. In addition, he is a man austere, so removed rarely.

People's Artist of Russia (1988).

In 1954 he graduated from the Moscow Art School at the Academy of Arts, in 1958 - Theater School named after B. Shchukin, in 1966 - Advanced Directing Courses at the USSR State Committee for Cinematography. In 1958-59 years - Actor Theater Vakhtangov, in 1960-64 - Theater Studio actor. In the years 1988-92 - head of the Moscow Experimental Theater 'Cartoons'.

. Among the films:

. YEAR AS LIFE (1965) - Georg Weerth
. Star of captivating happiness (1975) - Nicholas I
. LIFE AND DEATH Ferdinand Luce (1976) - Gein
. Of Kiev, Queen of France (1978) - Pope Benedict
. SHIP DOUBLE (1997) - scoring roles

. Television series:

. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979-86) - Sherlock Holmes

. Animation:

. Carlson RETURNS (1970) - Carlson
. BLUE BIRD (1970) - Raven
. INHERITANCE Wizard Bahram (1975) - Zilzilya
. GRANDMA Udav (1977) - Boa constrictor
. Zhikharka (1977) - Baba Yaga and the crow
. Uncle AU (1979) - Uncle Ou
. TES IN BOOTS (1981) - Sergeant
. Mystery of the Third World (1981) - GROMOZEKA
. MR AND MRS VINEGAR VINEGAR (1985) - Wolf