Valery Nosik

Soviet and Russian actor (1940–1995)

Valery Nosik
Валерий Носик

Born	Valery Benediktovich Nosik (1940-10-09)9 October 1940 Moscow, Soviet Union
Died	4 January 1995(1995-01-04) (aged 54) Moscow, Russia
Occupation	actor
Years active	1958-1994
Spouse(s)	Liya Akhedzhakova Maria Sternikova

Valery Benediktovich Nosik (Russian: Валерий Бенедиктович Носик; 9 October 1940 — 4 January 1995) was a Soviet Russian film and stage actor, the People's Artist of Russia (1994) who appeared in more than 100 films, as well as in numerous stage productions at the Moscow Pushkin Drama (1965-1972) and the Maly Theatres (1972-1995).^[1]^[2]

Biography

Valery Nosik was born in 1940 to Benedict Nosek, a Pole who in the 1900s came to settle in Ukraine, and 'simplified' his surname by changing a letter. He then married Alexandra Subbotina, a Russian girl from Kashira, and moved to Moscow. Valery's younger brother Vladimir Nosik was born in 1948 (to become later an actor too).^[1]

As a schoolboy, Valery Nosik attended the Youth Theatre studio based at the ZiL Culture Club, where he was tutored by Sergey Stein. After the graduation he enrolled in the VGIK institute to study in Mikhail Romm's class.^[2] Long before the graduation in 1963 Nosik made his screen debut in Knock Every Door (1958) directed by Maria Fyodorova. From then on he was cast regularly, mainly in peripheral, but memorable comedy roles which, according to a biographer, "had a way of lightening up even the dullest of films." Only occasionally was he provided the opportunity to demonstrate his dramatic talent, which he did in Horizon (1961), Scrambled Boots (1977) and Shura and Prosvirnyak (1987), to impressive effect.^[1]

Up until 1965 Nosik worked at the Moscow Young Viewer's Theatre, then joined the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre. In 1972 he moved to the Maly Theatre where he worked up until his death of heart attack, on 4 January 1995. Valery Benediktovich Nosik is deterred at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.^[1]

Private life

Valery Nosik's first wife was actress Liya Akhedzhakova, his second — actress Maria Sternikova. In this marriage which lasted nine years, their son Alexander Nosik was born in 1971, who later became an actor too.^[1]

Selected filmography

Introduction to Life (Вступление, 1962) as Romka
Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures (Операция „Ы“ и другие приключения Шурика, 1965) as student-gambler
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1966) as servant
Crime and Punishment (Преступление и наказание, 1970) as Zametov
Liberation (Освобождение, 1970) as Dorozhkin
As Ilf and Petrov rode a tram (Ехали в трамвае Ильф и Петров, 1972) as Kipyatkov
Ruslan and Ludmila (Руслан и Людмила, 1972) as messenger
Big School-Break (Большая перемена, 1973) as Otto Fukin
Adventures in a City that does not Exist (Приключения в городе, которого нет, 1974) as informant "Mustache"
Incognito from St. Petersburg (Инкогнито из Петербурга, 1977) as Luka Lukich Khlopov
There Was a Piano-Tuner... (Жил-был настройщик, 1979) as Nikodim Savelyev
Simply Awful! (Просто ужас, 1982) as hunter
Vertical Race (Гонки по вертикали, 1983) as airport employee
Promised Heaven (Небеса обетованные, 1991) as bum
Dreams (Сны, 1993) as Minister of Culture of Russia
The Master and Margarita (Мастер и Маргарита, 1994) as Aloysius Mogarych (uncredited)
Za co? (За что?, 1995) as charioteer

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Валерий Бенедиктович Носик". Rusactors on-line encyclopedia. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Валерий Бенедиктович Носик". kino-teatr.ru. Retrieved 16 May 2015.