Stanislav Chekan


Stanislav Yulianovich Chekan was a Soviet actor of theater and cinema, known primarily for his blue-collar manly appearance, and character actor roles of a stereotypical "big guy".

Biography

Stanislav Chekan was born in Rostov-on-Don on 2 June 1922. When he was 15 years old, his father was arrested as an enemy of the people. Stanislav was sent to a labor colony, where he first began to participate in amateur activities. Then he was sent to a vocational school, but on the way he turned to Rostov, where he entered another school, a theater school.
From 1938 to 1941 he studied at the studio of Yuri Zavadsky in the Theater School of Rostov-on-Don.
Member of the Great Patriotic War, fought near Novorossiysk, after a serious injury — the actor of the front-line theater.
In 1945 Stanislav Chekan became an actor of the Odessa Theater of the Soviet Army, then, in 1948—1956 — an actor of the Central Academic Theater of the Soviet Army in Moscow, and in 1958-1993 — National Film Actors' Theatre.
Stanislav Chekan is a textured and colorful character artist, with great charm and a sense of humor. As a rule, the screen characters of Chekan are real working men, strong and courageous people. Soviet and Russian viewers are most known for the role of Mikhail Ivanovich, the police captain, in the legendary comedy by Leonid Gaidai The Diamond Arm.
Stanislav Chekan died on 11 August 1994 after a long illness. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovo Cemetery.

Selected filmography

Son of the Regiment as soldierBlue Roads as Kapitan-leytenant Taras Shevchenko as cabbyA Fortress in the Mountains as MartshenkoDevotion as Vasya ZhukBehind the Footlights as Stepan, coachmanThe Wrestler and the Clown as Ivan PoddubnyAnnushka as SoldatHussar Ballad as Guerilla Amphibian Man as prison guardIntroduction to Life as captainThe First Trolleybus as First Trolleybus DriverWar and Peace as Tikhon CherbatyTwo Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show as SabodazhThe Mysterious Monk as ElpidiforThe New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers as 1 st filer in the potThe Brothers Karamazov as Samsonov's sonThe Diamond Arm as Mikhail Ivanovoch, Captain, then Major of militsiyaSevastopol as BotsmanThe Crown of the Russian Empire, or Once Again the Elusive Avengers as a man from the Emperor's suiteInvestigation Held by ZnaToKi: Dead to Rights as SilinPrivalov's Millions as Kuzma Ferapontovich KanunnikovNorthern Rhapsody as Karp SevastyanovEarthly Love as Koshev

Recognition and rewards