# Ivan Lapikov

Ivan Gerasimovich Lapikov (7 July 1922 – 2 May 1993) was a Soviet and Russian actor and People's Artist of the USSR for the year 1982.

## Biography

Lapikov was born in the village of Gorny Balykley, near Tsaritsyn (now – Dubovsky District, Volgograd Oblast). He spent his childhood in Stalingrad.
In 1939, he enrolled in drama school in Kharkov, where he studied for the following two years. After the World War II began, Ivan started to work in the Gorky Drama Theater (Stalingrad). There he worked until he moved to Moscow in 1963. In Moscow Lapikov joined the Film Actor's Theater-Studio.
His first role in cinema was in the film The Reserve Player (1954). After The Chairman (1964 film) by Alexey Saltykov (1964), where the actor had played the brother of the lead character, Lapikov became famous. Later he created a whole gallery of the Russian characters: Kirill in Andrei Rublev, Lyagavy in The Brothers Karamazov, Pankrat Nazarov in Eternal Call, and many other roles.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Co-actors | Director | Producer | Notes |
| 1954 | The Reserve player | Seer-off | Georgy Vitsin, Nikolai Rybnikov | Semyon A. Timoshenko | Lenfilm | |
| 1956 | The Soldiers | Zabavnikov | Innokenty Smoktunovsky | Aleksandr G. Ivanov | Lenfilm | |
| 1961 | A Business Trip | Tatyanych | Oleg Yefremov, Vasily Shukshin, Yevgeny Vesnik | Yuri P. Yegorov | Gorky Film Studio | |
| 1963 | If You Are Right... | Yefim Golubev, Chairman of the Collective Farm | Stanislav Lyubshin | Yuri P. Yegorov | Gorky Film Studio | |
| 1964 | The Wagtail's Army | Wounded Man | Gunārs Cilinskis, Ivan Kuznetsov | Aleksandrs Leimanis | Riga Film Studio | |
| 1964 | The Chairman | The chairman's brother, Semyon Trubnikov | Mikhail Ulyanov, Nonna Mordyukova, Vyacheslav Nevinny, Vitaly Solomin | Aleksei Saltykov | Mosfilm | |
| 1964 | Uncalled Love | Gavrila | Yuriy Nazarov | Vladimir V. Monakhov | Mosfilm | |
| 1965 | Our House | Uncle Kolya | Anatoli Papanov, Nina Sazonova | Vasily M. Pronin | Mosfilm | |
| 1966 | Andrei Rublev | Kirill | Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Burlyayev, Irma Raush | Andrei Tarkovsky | Mosfilm | |
| 1966 | Horseman Over the City | The Ayna's Grandfather | Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev | Igor V. Shatrov | Gorky Film Studio | |
| 1967 | The House and the Owner | Yegor Baynev | | Budimir A. Metalnikov | Mosfilm | |
| 1967 | The Journalist | Pustovoytov | Galina Polskikh, Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, Vasily Shukshin, Annie Girardot, Mireille Mathieu, Yuri Vasilyev | Sergei Gerasimov | Gorki Film Studio | |
| 1968 | The Serafim Frolov's Love | cameo | Leonid Kuravlyov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Gennadi Yukhtin | Semyon I. Tumanov | Mosfilm | |
| 1968 | Through the Rus | Father Ioannes | | Fyodor Filippov | Mosfilm | |
| 1969 | The Brothers Karamazov | Lyagavy | Andrey Myagkov, Kirill Lavrov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Tamara Nosova | Kirill Lavrov, Ivan Pyryev, Mikhail Ulyanov | Mosfilm | |
| 1970 | Merry-Go-Round | Portrait of Iona | Vladimir Basov, Yevgeny Leonov, Vyacheslav Tikhonov | Mikhail Schweitzer | Mosfilm | |
| 1970 | About the Comrades | Uncle Fedya, an Old Chekist | Valeri Zolotukhin, Pyotr Glebov, Nina Agapova, Igor Starygin | Vladimir Nazarov | Mosfilm | Composer – Karen Khachaturian |
| 1970 | Forfeit | Personnel Director | Oleg Yankovsky, Victoria Fyodorova, Lyubov Sokolova, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan | Fyodor Filippov | Mosfilm | |
| 1970 | The Silver Trumpets | Peasant | Andrey Myagkov, Irina Alfyorova, Mikhail Yanshin | Eduard Bocharov | Gorky Film Studio | |
| 1970 | The Firekeepers | Danila Makarovich | Yevgeny Matveyev, Tamara Syomina | Yevgeny Karelov | Mosfilm | |
| 1971 | Yegor Bulychyov and Others | Fool-for-Christ | Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Rimma Markova, Nina Ruslanova, Georgi Burkov, Lev Durov | Sergei Solovyov | Mosfilm | |
| 1971 | Moment of Silence | Soldier Boris Krayushkin | Yuri Kuzmenkov, Yuri Katin-Yartsev, Nikolai Volkov (Jr.) | Igor Shatrov | Gorky Film Studio | |
| 1973-1983 | The Eternal Call | Pankrat Nazarov | Pyotr Velyaminov, Oleg Basilashvili, Yefim Kopelyan, Ada Rogovtseva, Vadim Spiridonov | Valeri Uskov, Vladimir Krasnopolski | Mosfilm | TV series |
| 1973 | Comrade General | Executive Officer | Igor Ledogorov, Vladimir Kashpur, Leonid Kulagin, Olga Gobzeva | Teodor Y. Vulfovich | Mosfilm | |
| 1974 | Front without Flanks | Yerofeich | Ivan Pereverzev, Vladimir Ivashov, Vladimir Zamansky | Igor Gostev | Mosfilm | The first part of the Gostev's war trilogy |
| 1975 | They Fought for Their Country | Poprischenko | Vasily Shukshin, Yuri Nikulin, Sergei Bondarchuk, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Nikolai Gubenko, Yevgeni Samoylov, Nonna Mordyukova | Sergei Bondarchuk | Mosfilm | Written by Mikhail Sholokhov |
| 1977 | The Stepp | Panteley the Pilgrim | Vladimir Sedov, Nikolay Trofimov, Igor Kvasha | Sergei Bondarchuk | Mosfilm | |
| 1977 | Front behind the Front-line | Yerofeich | Yuri Tolubeyev, Nina Menshikova, Tatyana Bozhok, Marina Dyuzheva, Afanasy Kochetkov | Igor Gostev | Mosfilm | The second part of the Gostev's war trilogy |
| 1978 | Father Sergius | The Old Man on the Ferry | Valentina Titova, Nikolai Gritsenko, Lyudmila Maksakova | Igor Talankin | Mosfilm | |
| 1979 | Little Tragedies | Priest | Georgi Taratorkin, Sergei Yursky, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Ivars Kalniņš, Larisa Udovichenko | Mikhail Schweitzer | Studio Ekran | |
| 1979 | Poem about the Wings | Yesaul | Nikolay Annenkov, Georgi Yepifantsev, Aleksandr Galibin | Daniil Khrabrovitsky | Mosfilm, ICAIC (Cuba), DEFA (East Germany), Gaumont | |
| 1980 | The Youth of Peter the Great | Blacksmith Zhemov | Tamara Makarova, Natalya Bondarchuk, Oleg Strizhenov, Boris Khmelnitsky | Sergei Gerasimov | Gorky Film Studio | The first part of the Gerasimov's historical film |
| 1980 | At the Beginning of the Glorious Deeds | Blacksmith Zhemov | Dmitri Zolotukhin, Aleksey Mironov, Ulrike Mai | Sergei Gerasimov | Gorky Film Studio | The second part of the Gerasimov's historical film |
| 1981-1982 | The Young Russia | The Bishop of Kholmogory, Afanasy | Aleksandr Fatyushin, Nikolay Olyalin, Aleksandra Yakovleva, Oleg Borisov | Ilya Gurin | Gorky Film Studio | |
| 1981 | Front in the Enemy's Rear | Yerofeich | Valeriya Zaklunna, Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Mikhail Kokshenov, Yevgeny Leonov-Gladyshev | Igor Gostev | Mosfilm, Barrandov Studios | The third part of the Gostev's war trilogy |
| 1984 | Before We Part | Uncle Pasha | Natalya Fateyeva, Nikolai Karachentsov, Klara Luchko, Yuri Antonov, Igor Kostolevsky | Aleksandr Kosarev | Mosfilm | |
| 1985 | Budulay's Return | Old Man, Vasily | Mihai Volontir, Klara Luchko, Nina Ruslanova, Ivan Ryzhov | Aleksandr Blank | Studio Ekran | |
| 1986 | Boris Godunov | Blind Man | Sergei Bondarchuk, Roman Filippov, Yelena Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Olgierd Łukaszewicz | Sergei Bondarchuk | Mosfilm, Barrandov Studios | |
| 1988 | Itinerant Folk | Buturlin | Aleksandr Filippenko, Boris Nevzorov, Andrey Martynov | Ilya Gurin | Gorky Film Studio | |
| 1988 | Lord, Let Me Die... | Ivan Ivanovich, Film Director | Galina Polskikh, Sergei Filippov, Vladimir Grammatikov | Boris Grigoryev | Gorky Film Studio | |
| 1989 | Souvenir for the Prosecutor | The Chief Regional Prosecutor | Galina Belyayeva, Svetlana Toma, Aleksander Serov | Aleksandr Kosarev | Sverdlovsk Film Studio | |
| 1993 | Black Devil | Old Man | Mikhail Gluzsky, Natalya Gundareva, Oleg Stefanko | Aleksandr Kosarev | Mosfilm | |
| 1994 | House on the Rock | | Juozas Budraitis, Irina Kupchenko, Svetlana Svetlichnaya | Aleksandr Khryakov | Valir-Film | |
| 1994 | Quiet Flows the Don | Old Cossack | Rupert Everett, F. Murray Abraham, Natalya Andreychenko, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Boris Shcherbakov | Sergei Bondarchuk | Madison Motion Pictures | Based on the M. Sholokhov's masterpiece |

## Awards

* Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1965)
* People's Artist of the RSFSR (1974)
* People's Artist of the USSR (1982)
* USSR State Prize (1979)
* Lenin Komsomol Prize (1979)
* Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR - 1973

## Legacy

* The Lapikov Museum, in the village of Gorny Balykley
* Memorial plaque to Ivan Lapikov at the house in Volgograd where he lived