Gleb Glebov: biography of the actor of the old school

The popularity and popularity of other actors is not at times associated with exceptional talent, but rather is due to numerous scandalous incidents involving them. However, fortunately, there were artists who came to art not for fame and not for earnings, but for vocation. One of them was Gleb Glebov. His biography is an example of sincere and devoted service to the theater.

Birth and early years

On May 11, 1899, a joyous event happened in the family of an official of the railway department. Gleb Sorokin was born in Kherson province, in the city of Voznesensk. True, this biographical detail may not be accurate, other sources mention Voskresensk (Moscow Gubernia).

A creative pseudonym will appear later, but for now the boy, like all his peers, is studying at the gymnasium. In connection with the revolutionary hardness, primary education was protracted, and a man graduated from high school only at the age of 21. After this, an attempt was made to obtain a "reliable" specialty, and Sorokin studied for a whole year (1920-1921) at the Odessa Polytechnic. However, the desire for art has taken its toll.

In 1921, Sorokin takes the pseudonym Gleb Glebov. His biography as an artist begins in the Odessa drama, where he served two years. Now it is almost impossible to find out what the repertoire of the theater was at that time. But the troupe carefully keeps the memory of what was once in the theater. Ivanova, that on the street Greek, Glebov played and other people's artists of the USSR, photos of which are hung in the hall.

In 1923, the leadership of the republican cultural enlightenment decided to "strengthen" the provincial Ukrainian theaters, and some Odessa actors were transferred to Nikolaev. Among them was Gleb Glebov. The actor's biography is connected with this southern city, and later with Voznesensky, where he worked in the Russian Drama Theater until 1926.

1st Belarusian Drama Theater

Then there was Belarus. In the Minsk Theater. Yanka Kupala, he worked since 1926, and with the beginning of the war led the troupe in the evacuation. Like all Soviet people, the theater staff did everything for the front and victory. Actively acted before the fighters front-line brigade, in which the leading actor was Gleb Glebov. His biography is inextricably linked with this collective, whose artistic direction until 1947 he carried out. They played a hundred and fifty roles, and the most stellar became Kroplya from "Konstantin Zaslonov" and Tulyag from the play "Who Laughs Last." Variety of genres is a clear sign of the versatile giftedness of the actor.

Roles in the cinema and on the radio

The lucky ones who saw Gleb Glebov on the stage, forever remembered his sparkling sense of humor and acting skills, typical for the old theater school. Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer witnesses of creative triumph, and it remains for the modern viewer to judge the artist on those films that have reached our days. "The Eastern Corridor", "Our Neighbors", "Constantine Zaslonov", "The First Trials", "Strict Woman", "Polesskaya Legenda" are just some of the films in which Glebov's efforts create vivid and memorable images. Particularly successful was the role of Judge Demjan Demjanovich in the adaptation of Gogol's story "How Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich." In total Glebov appeared in twenty films.

He also worked on the radio. A wonderful diction and expressive manner of reading were remembered both for adults and especially for children, for whom he wrote wonderful fairy tales.

Gleb Glebov died in 1967, in Minsk, which became his native city for him. The actor had many awards, he was twice awarded the Stalin Prize (II degree), since 1948 - People's Artist of the USSR, twice awarded the Order of Lenin and twice more - the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. But the main reward for him was the sincere love of the audience.