Personal Info
Birth date
1935-03-16 (90 Years)
Day of death
2019-02-08
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
Also known as
Sergei Yurskiy
Sergey Yurskiy
Sergei Yursky
Biography
Sergei Yurievich Yursky was a Soviet and Russian actor, director, author and playwright.
Filmography
The Broken Horseshoe
6
Overview:
Based on the novel by Jules Verne "Drama in Livonia". French aeronaut Jules Ardan, traveling in a hot air balloon, accidentally finds himself in Reval. Here he meets Dr. Peterson and his daughter Leida. The gendarmes are hunting for Leida's fiance. The banker's son is being murdered in the city. Suspicion falls on Peterson. Jules Ardan takes over the investigation of the crime.Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You
6.5
Overview:
In early 20th-century Azerbaijan, two circus artists travel to a village where one of them was born, unaware of the danger and adventure that await them.The Little House in Kolomna
NYR
Overview:
A television play based on the eponymous poem, letters, and other works by Alexander Pushkin.The Mystery of Edwin Drood
7
Overview:
In Closterham, Edwin Drood and Rose Button confront his uncle John Jasper, the church choir regent, and Edwin fights Neville Landles, who is in love with Rose, leading to his disappearance.The Story of One Billiard-Room
6
Overview:
The man does everything to protect the still chaste population from the corrupting influence of consumer society.The Serf Actress
4.8
Overview:
Batmanova, once a serf, sets Paris aflame with her singing and now returns to the court of the Prince in 19th-century Russia. The Prince wants Batmanova for himself, but she loves a young nobleman who is technically still a serf because his papers have been lost.Fiesta
NYR
Overview:
A stage adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", first staged for Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater and later reworked for Leningrad Television.Time, Forward!
5.1
Overview:
The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they mobilize to break it. The entire construction site was engulfed in immense socialist competition. The teams are ready to complete the work on time at any cost. A Moscow journalist who has come to cover the scale of the great construction project is looking for the hero of his report...Padeniye Kondora
6
Overview:
A military dictator in a fictional country, modeled on early-1970s Chile, has risen from butcher to junta leader but now, isolated and distrustful, confides only in his guard Manuel. Manuel, who once shared the dictator’s humble origins, betrays him without hesitation when a popular uprising topples the regime and personally kills him.Dostigayev and Others
NYR
Overview:
July-December 1917, the country is undergoing a revolution. "The pillars of society" are alarmed by the looming on them menacing events. Some of them are ready to fight with the revolution, others — among them industrialist Vasily Dostigaev trying to "adapt»School of Fine Arts
NYR
Overview:
An animated film in two parts, about the tragic fate of Estonian artist Ülo Sooster and about his work.The Golden Calf
7.961
Overview:
A crook named Ostap Bender, who survived a murder attempt by Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs," now schemes to extort 1 million from an underground millionaire.The Master and Margarita
5.7
Overview:
The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. His assistant and muse, Margarita, tries to help the Master through the supernatural powers she got from the devil, Woland, who is visiting Moscow.The Republic of ShKID
6.6
Overview:
The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.School of Fine Arts. Return
NYR
Overview:
The second part of the duology on the famous Estonian artist Ülo Sooster continues his life story, paying homage to many other great artists who were spiritually consonant with his work.Handmade Clouds
NYR
Overview:
Five stories depicting five different kinds of love, from childhood to old age.Taiga
NYR
Overview:
After a mail plane crashes in the Siberian taiga, two rivals set off along untrodden paths in search of missing money.Woe to Wit or Eisenstein and Meyerhold: a Two-fold Portrait in the Interior of the Epoch
NYR
Overview:
The film is about the complex, passionate and at the same time deeply respectful relationship between two genius directors, a teacher (Meyerhold) and a student (Eisenstein). In the most difficult conditions of the totalitarian regime, adherence to eternal values helped both defend their art and themselves in it, preserve honor and dignity. Their relationship, creative and everyday actions are not only an artistic, but also a moral testament to future generations.Street Is Full of Surprises
6.222
Overview:
Chief accountant Porfiry Petrovich Smirnov-Alyansky, who took a good walk on the anniversary of his colleague cashier Ivan Zakharovich Vodnev, climbs into the traffic controller's booth and disrupts traffic on one of the streets of Leningrad. However, the guard Vasiliy Shaneshkin mistakenly delivers to the police station not an escaped offender, but a quite decent cashier. In addition, Vodnev, offended by the police, turns out to be the father of the bride Shaneshkin — Katya. Vasiliy admits his guilt, but, not daring to explain himself, leaves the angry Ivan Zakharovich with bad thoughts about the Soviet police. Fortunately, the young sergeant will soon have an opportunity to prove to others the responsibility and conscientiousness of the police officers.The Magic Bells
NYR
Overview:
A good tale about the inhabitants of a magical city who were shamelessly robbed by the villain Miraclus. He stole their smiles - sly, playful, tender, affectionate - and melted them into golden bells! The Miracle dungeon was filled with a quiet, clear ringing sound, fresh and transparent, like a forest spring. He enjoyed this music, but the people in the city looked at each other with sad eyes and thought that joy had left them forever. But one day a cheerful company came to this city - a kind wizard, a girl Katya, a boy Vasya and a cartoon cat that came to life - and helped the residents return their smiles.Love and Pigeons
7.5
Overview:
One of the most favorite Soviet comedies, a screen version of the play of the same name by Vladimir Gurkin. Each of us knows the story of Vasily, who went to the resort, succumbed to the charms of a femme fatale Raisa Zakharovna, but could not withstand two weeks of urban life, and returned to his family, where he waited for love and pigeons.My Favorite Time
NYR
Overview:
A full-length animated film based on drawings by Alexander Pushkin, which includes all three pictures of Andrey Khrzhanovsky's Pushkin trilogy: "I Am Flying to You as a Memory..." (1977), "With You I Am Again..." (1980) and "Autumn" (1982).School of Fine Arts. Juniper Landscape
6
Overview:
Blending drawings, paintings, filmed interviews, and recorded testimony, this animation-documentary hybrid tells of the tragic fate of the Estonian artist Ülo Sooster.King Stag
5.3
Overview:
A story of court intrigues, love, and betrayal. A vain king is turned into a stag and only true love can save himThe End of Eternity
5.8
Overview:
Directed by Andrei Yermash, and written by Isaac Asimov, Budimir Metalnikov, and Andrei Yermash, «Konets vechnosti» is a 1987 Science Fiction film, starring Oleg Vavilov, Vera Sotnikova, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Sergei Yursky, Gediminas Girdvainis and Boris Ivanov.Acting
TBAПятый ангел (1 Episode) as Unknown
2015Karski & The Lords of Humanity as Jan Karski (voice)
2015Handmade Clouds as Old Man (voice)
2012Evening Urgant (1 Episode) as Self
2011Comrade Stalin (4 Episodes) as Сталин
2010The Chairs as le Vieux
2009Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson: Life is a Novel as Roman Jakobson (voice)
2009Regarding the Bald Singer... as Captain
2009A Room and a Half as Father
2008Fathers and Sons (4 Episodes) as Vasily Bazarov
2008The Gift to Stalin as Narrator (voice)
2008Don't Think About White Monkeys as Unknown
2007Korolev as Unknown
2006Osobennyy as Uncle Tolik (voice)
2003A Cat and a Half as Father (voice)
2003Woe to Wit or Eisenstein and Meyerhold: a Two-fold Portrait in the Interior of the Epoch as Vsevolod Meyerhold (voice)
2002The School for Scandal (1 Episode) as Unknown
1999Eugene Onegin as Unknown
1998Chekhov and Co. (1, 1 Episode) as старик-писатель, Крикунов, инженер
1996Queen Margot (18 Episodes) as Unknown
1996Secrets Shared with a Stranger as First inspector
1995Zadoc and Happiness as Sheremetieff
1994The Master and Margarita as Berlioz (voice)
1994Diary in a Marble as Apfelbaum
1993To Remember (1 Episode) as Narrator
1993A Gun with silencer as Unknown
1992The Gamblers: XXI as Unknown
1991Ooh, Train Robbery as Professor Lebedev
1991The Case of Sukhovo-Kobylin (4 Episodes) as Unknown
1991The Psychic as The Master
1990School of Fine Arts as Narrator (voice)
1990Chernov/Chernov as Arnold
1990School of Fine Arts. Return as Narrator (voice)
1990Interpretation of Dreams as Sigmund Freud (voice)
1989The Painting as The Guest
1988The Story of One Billiard-Room as portret Velikogo kapitana (as S. Yurskiy)
1988To Live, to Think, to Feel, to Love... as Self
1987This Fantastic World 13 as Old Man
1987School of Fine Arts. Juniper Landscape as Narrator (voice)
1987Star Counter as Unknown
1987The End of Eternity as Senior Computer Finge
1987The Magic Bells as Miraklyus the Alchemist (voice)
1987My Favorite Time as Narrator (voice)
1986The Road to One's Self as Ilya Kotov
1986Doctor Aybolit as Doctor Aybolit (voice) (uncredited)
1985About Sidorov Vova as Narrator / Others (voice)
1985Taiga as Narrator (voice)
1985Love and Pigeons as Uncle Mitya
1985The Constellation of Love as Emir
1985Сказки старого волшебника (2 Episodes) as Хранитель Сказок
1984The Lonely Businessman's Big Score as Ludwig
1984Monsieur Lenoir, Who... as Adolphe
1984Plyukh and Plikh as Narrator (voice)
1984The Hare's Tail as Narrator (voice)
1984Fairy-Tales of an Old Magician as Keeper of Tales
1983Everything for Everyone as Narrator (voice)
1983Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves as Касым
1983Look for a Woman (2 Episodes) as Maître Rochet
1982Look for a Woman as Maître Rochet
1982Dragon's Cave as Narrator (voice)
1982Padeniye Kondora as Dictator
1982A Vintage Detective Story as Slinkton / Auguste Dupin
1982Autumn as Narrator (voice)
1981Uncle's Dream as Grishka, servant
1981Don't Be Afraid, I'm with You as Chief of Police
1980The Mystery of Edwin Drood as Dick Datchery
1980The Mystery of Edwin Drood (3 Episodes) as Narrator/Dick Datchery
1980Little Tragedies (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1980Little Tragedies as Импровизатор
1980With You I Am Again... as Narrator (voice)
1979The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed as Gruzdev
1979The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (5 Episodes) as Груздев
1978Rasmus and the Tramp as Lif
1978A Country House for One Family as Unknown
1977The Lion Ran Away from the House as Hunter
1977One Fine Day as director of the scientific research institute (novell «V odin prekrasnyj den'»)
1977I Am Flying to You as a Memory... as Narrator (voice)
1976The Darvish Detonates Paris as Monsieur Jordan
1975Choice of Purpose as Robert Oppenheimer
1974The Little House in Kolomna as Unknown
1973The Broken Horseshoe as Jules Ardan
1971Fiesta as Singer (uncredited)
1970King Stag as Tartaglia
1969The Death of Vazir Mukhtar as Alexander Pushkin
1969The Truth! Nothing But the Truth! as Unknown
1968The Golden Calf as Ostap Bender
1968Intervention as Masques (Hearts / Diamonds / Clubs / Spades)
1968Prince Napoleon as Unknown
1968Koriolan as Caius Marcius Coriolanus
1968Don Quixote Takes Up the Fight as Don Quixote / Narrator
1967Eugene Onegin as Unknown
1966The Republic of ShKID as Vicknixor
1966The Dark Lady of the Sonnets as The Man
1965Time, Forward! as Margulies
1965Count Nulin as Unknown
1965Faithful Robot as Robot
1965The Premiere is Tonight as Self
1965A Long Cat Tale as Detective Sidney Hall
1964Conscience Doesn't Forgive as Unknown
1963Kyukhlya as Wilhelm Küchelbecker
1963The Serf Actress as Prince Nikita Baturin
1962Black Gull as José Guillermotell
1961The Man from Nowhere as Chudak
1960The Story about Newlyweds as Danila
1959Dostigayev and Others as Unknown
1958Street Is Full of Surprises as passerby in a yellow hat (uncredited)
Directing
2010The Chairs ... Director
2009Regarding the Bald Singer... ... Director
1992The Gamblers: XXI ... Director
1990Chernov/Chernov ... Director
1971Fiesta ... Director
1967Eugene Onegin ... Director
1965Count Nulin ... Director
Writing
2010The Chairs ... Adaptation
2009Regarding the Bald Singer... ... Writer
1992The Gamblers: XXI ... Writer
1990Chernov/Chernov ... Writer, Novel
1971Fiesta ... Writer