Sergey Martinson

Sergey Aleksandrovich Martinson (;  – 2 September 1984) was a Soviet and Russian stage, film and voice actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1964).

He was born in Saint Petersburg in the family of Swedish and Russian descent. His parents adored theater and took their son to many performances. As a schoolboy, Sergey played in a theatrical studio.

After one year of education in the Technological institute, he decided to become a professional actor. At the entrance exams he read Boris Godunov's monologue from Pushkin's play. The exam board roared with laughter, but refused to accept him. He later joined the theatrical institute from a second attempt.

Martinson worked in several theaters. In 1924–1941 he played in the Theatre of the Revolution. In 1925–1926, 1929–1933, 1937–1938 he was the leading actor of Vsevolod Meyerhold's theatre. He was cast by Meyerhold in the plays The Government Inspector, Mandate and others. From 1933 to 1936 he worked in the music hall.

He married his first wife, Yekaterina Ilyinichna Ilyina (born: 1900, St Petersburg, Russia, died: 1985, New York, USA), an actress, in 1927, whom he met during his acting studies; their daughter, Anna, later a successful artist and costume designer, was born in 1928 (died New York, 2012), she married the Russian conductor and violist Rudolf Barshai (1924–2010). Although they had never officially divorced, he married his second wife, dancer Lola Dobrokhotova, who was later exiled by the government for alleged connections to "foreign elements" and died in exile; they had a son, Aleksandr (1939–2003). His third wife, Luisa (born: Ukraine, 1929, died: 2018, USA) was a woman 30 years junior to Martinson. They had a daughter, Natasha (born 1956) and divorced several years later.

Filmography

Films 

 The Adventures of Oktyabrina (1924) – Coolidge Kerzonovich Poincaré
 The Devil's Wheel (1926) – Orchestra conductor
 Little Brother (1927) – Trust director
 The Deserter (1933) – Passerby
 Marionettes (1934) – G, the Barber
 Loss of Sensation (1935) – Dizer, music hall artist
 Treasure Island (1937) – Bradley
 The Oppenheim Family (1938) – Gutwetter, poet
 Stepan Razin (1939) – Fyodor Shpyn
 The Golden Key (1939) – Duremar
 Anton Ivanovich Is Angry (1941) – Kerosinov, composer
 We from the Urals (1943) – Dance club manager
 Silva (1944) – Count Boni
 The Wedding (1944) – Ivan Mikhailovich Yat, telegrapher
 Secret Agent (1947) – Willi Pommer
 The Third Blow (1948) – Adolf Hitler
 Przhevalsky (1951) – Andrei Ivanovich Shatilo, professor
 Sadko (1952) – Inok
 Attack from the Sea (1953) – Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
 Ilya Muromets (1956) – Boyar Mishatychka
 A Crazy Day (1956) – Miusov
 The Idiot (1958) – Lebedev
 Scarlet Sails (1961) – Philip, coal miner
 The Night Before Christmas (1961) – Osip Nikiforovich, diak
 Wind of Freedom (1961) – Innkeeper
 Funny Stories (1962) – Lyuska the dog's owner
 Tale about the Boy-Kibalchish (1964) – Agent 518
 Tale About the Lost Time (1964) – Prokofy Prokofyevich the Evil Wizard
 Thirty Three (1965) – Valentin Petrovich, Rozochka's father
 The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1966) – Saltan's guardian
 The Beautiful Girl (1969) – Lonely old man with cane
 Ruslan and Ludmila (1972) – Byzantine ambassador
 Armed and Dangerous (1977) – Mr. Trott
 The New Adventures of Captain Wrongel (1978) – Sir Vant, bandit leader
 The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981) – Mr. Frankland
 And Life, and Tears, and Love (1983) – Yegoshkin

Voice acting 

 The Lost Letter (1945) – Witch
 The Enchanted Boy (1955) – Rat leader
 The Snow Queen (1957) – The Raven
 The Adventures of Buratino (1959) – Mantis the Doctor
 It Was I Who Drew the Little Man (1960) – Chalk-drawn Little Man / Eight-legged creature
 Cipollino (1961) – Prince Lemon / One of Lemon's soldiers
 The Key (1961) – Zmei Gorynych's second head
 The Wild Swans (1962) – Monk
 Adventures of Mowgli (1967–1971) – Tabaqui

References

External links
  Wikipedia in Russian
  Biography
  About Sergey Martinson
 

1899 births
1984 deaths
20th-century Russian male actors
Male actors from Saint Petersburg
People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd
Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology alumni
Honored Artists of the RSFSR
People's Artists of the RSFSR
Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Russian people of Swedish descent
Russian male film actors
Russian male silent film actors
Russian male stage actors
Russian male voice actors
Soviet male film actors
Soviet male silent film actors
Soviet male stage actors
Soviet male voice actors
Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery