Nikolay Lukyanovich Dupak (russian: Николай Лукьянович Дупак; born 5 October 1921) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theater director, the head of theaters.Вы помните, конструкции упали? Смерть в Большой театре!
/ref> Front-line soldier, invalid of the World War II. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1980),

Merited Artist of Ukraine Merited (Performing) Artist of Ukraine (also translated as Honored (Performing) Artist of Ukraine, uk, Заслужений артист України) is a state honorary title of decoration awarded by the Ukrainian SSR and later Ukraine for o ...

(2012). Honorary Artist of Moscow (2019).

Biography

Born on October 5, 1921 in Ukraine in the village of Starobeshevo,

Donetsk Oblast The Donetsk Oblast ( ukr, Донецька область, Donetska oblast, ), also referred to as Donechchyna ( ukr, Донеччина, links=no), is an oblast of eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 mill ...

in a large Ukrainian family. Countryman-fellow villager of Pasha Angelina.Вы помните, конструкции упали? Смерть в Большой театре!
/ref> In the spring of 1941, Dupak, a young student of the Rostov Theater School, was approved for the role of Andrei in the film '' Taras Bulba'' directed by Alexander Dovzhenko, however this picture was not filmed.Воспоминания Николая Дупака
/ref> But when they began to shoot the picture, the war began. Nikolai joined the people's militia. Then he served in the cavalry, went through the entire Great Patriotic War. He was wounded and shell-shocked three times. Dupak was the leading actor and director of the Moscow Stanislavsky Theater, acted in films. Then he moved to Taganka Theatre. It was he who invited Yuri Lyubimov and Vladimir Vysotsky to the theater.Вы помните, конструкции упали? Смерть в Большой театре!
/ref> He persuaded the artist David Borovsky, who worked in Kiev, to move to Moscow. Dupak's creative career lasted 80 years.

Selected filmography

* '' Dark Is the Night'' (1945) as Lieutenant Sannikov * '' In the Mountains of Yugoslavia'' (1945) as adjutant * '' The Forty-First'' (1956) as Chupilko * '' Torrents of Steel'' (1967) as Volosatov * ''

Two Comrades Were Serving ''Two Comrades Were Serving'' (russian: Служили два товарища, translit. ''Sluzhili dva tovarishcha'') is a 1968 Soviet war film directed by Yevgeny Karelov with a script by Yuli Dunsky and Valeri Frid. The film is about the ...

'' (1968) as army commander * '' Intervention'' (1968) as Corporal Barbaru * '' Bumbarash'' (1968) as Sovkov * ''

Eternal Call ''Eternal Call'' (russian: Вечный зов, Vechnyy zov) was a Soviet 1973–1983 epic TV series directed by Vladimir Krasnopolsky and Valery Uskov by the eponymous novel of Anatoli Ivanov shot by Mosfilm. Plot The series traces the fates ...

'' (1973) as Regional Committee Secretary Filimonov * ''

Captain Nemo Captain Nemo (; later identified as an Indian, Prince Dakkar) is a fictional character created by the French novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's science-fiction classics, ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' ( ...

'' (1975) as Colonel Bunro * ''

The Arrows of Robin Hood ''The Arrows of Robin Hood'' (russian: Стрелы Робин Гуда, ''Strely Robin Guda'', alternative translations ''Robin Good's Arrows'', ''Robin Gud's Arrows'') is a Soviet 1975 film about Robin Hood directed by Sergei Tarasov. Two s ...

'' (1975) as miller, Maria's father * '' Untypical Story'' (1977) as miller, Maria's father * '' Life Is Beautiful'' (1979) as police commissioner * '' The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe'' (1983) as Abbot Aymer * '' Love with Privileges'' (1989) as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR

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* 1921 births Living people Soviet male film actors Soviet male stage actors Russian male film actors Russian male stage actors Soviet theatre directors Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Honored Artists of the RSFSR Recipients of the title of Merited Artist of Ukraine Soviet people of World War II Russian centenarians Men centenarians {{Russia-actor-stub