In the life of the actor Georgy Vitsin, whose biography began on April 23, 1917 in Petrograd, there were many hardships, but he still managed to achieve much of what he wanted. And Witsin wished, of course, to become an actor. Although George was born in an ordinary family, he always had a craving and talent for art. The actor grew up in an incomplete family. The fact is that the biography of Father Vicin was tragic. He fought on the fronts of the First World War, was hit by a gas attack, so returned from the war a seriously ill person. The actor's father did not live long, so his mother's biography was very difficult. The actor told me that her mother changed many jobs to feed her family. At some time she began to work in the Hall of Columns of the House of Unions in her native city. George often went to work with his mother. It was there that Vincin began to fall in love with acting.
As a child, George was a very shy boy. He did not like to be attracted to, did not like, when teachers are summoned to the blackboard. But, nevertheless, George realized that he would never become an actor if he could not get rid of his complexes. Therefore, Witsin decided to go on stage by all means. Moreover, there was a theater studio in his school. It was there that George began his career as an actor. He not only played well, but also danced well. He was even advised to do ballet, however, George decided that he wanted to play in the theater, and only the theater. That's why, when George graduated from school, he immediately went to enter the school of the Maly Theater, and entered. But then Vitzin somehow behaved lightly and began to skip pairs. Therefore, he was expelled from the school in his first year. The following year, Witsin began to enter three different studios. It was then that it became clear that Witsin was a very talented man - he enrolled in all three studios, and stopped his choice at the Theater School. E. Vakhtangov studio MXAT-2. There Vitsin studied for one year, and already in 1936 began to play in the theater studio of Nikolai Khmelov. There, Witsin quickly became popular. He was exactly the actor they came to see on purpose. Vitsin liked his work, liked the roles that he played. George loved his audience and no one even could not imagine that once this wonderful theatrical actor will devote himself entirely to the cinema.
He started filming in the fifties. At first he was given the role of a modest and shy young man, who, however, always fought for his truth and never retreated. For the shooting George always tried to do everything. He went in for sports, went to boxing, ran for months at the stadium. George always devoted himself completely to work and never thought about the fact that he was tired or sick. If Vitsin liked the role, he was ready to do everything.
But, nevertheless, Vitsin did not have to play serious characters for long. The fact is that in the sixties he came to Gaidai and became part of a magnificent trinity: Coward, Balbes and Experienced. In these films, Vicin's character was a man with a poetic soul, a suspicion, a sort of intellectual who lives in a communal apartment. Without him, without his character and charisma, the trinity would never have been so bright and colorful. Nikulin and Morgunov have repeatedly said that George is so talented, he has so many skills that he and the two together can never outdo him.
The peculiarity of Vicin was that he was able to play a wide variety of roles. For example, in 1971 he played in the "Gentlemen of Fortune" criminal, who was both terrible, and sentimental and strange. Although this film was more of a comedy, the role of Vicin was still tragic. Vincin knew how to be not only ironic, but also grotesque. He could, even playing the role of the second plan, perform it so that everyone remembered the character of George. Vitsin played in more than a hundred films. Also, Vitsin continued to play in television shows, more precisely in the first Soviet television show of this format - "Kabachok 13 chairs". Witsin seemed to know almost everything. He was an amazing master of reincarnation. At the age of fifty this actor with ease played the role of twenty-year-old Misha Balzaminov in "The Wedding of Balzaminov", and at thirty-six - played the "Maxim's quail" old man Musia. His last role was in 1994. He played in the movie "Hagi-Tragger".
Also, Vicin was involved in the animation. It is in his voice that the Hare speaks in the "Sack of apples", Giuseppe in "The Adventures of Pinocchio", the beetle in "Thumbelina" and many other heroes of Soviet cartoons.
The personal life of George Vicin was the life of an ordinary person. He had a beloved wife, a daughter of Natasha, who is a talented artist. It is also known that Vincin loved animals very much. He always fed all the cats, dogs and birds that lived in his area, near the film sets, near the theater. In addition, at home Vicin had two parrots and a dog. It is known that Witsin did not have a passion for alcohol at all. Although the films almost always seemed to viewers as a very drinker. More than that, George was very serious about yoga and meditation. He could even stop the filming process in order to do the necessary exercises. By the way, doctors believed that, in the end, yoga became one of the reasons for the sharp deterioration of Vicin's health in old age.
The last seven years, George was not filming. He only participated in a variety of humorous concerts. George Vitsin lived a long life and was able to portray a variety of different characters on the screen. All viewers love and remember him for many roles, but his Coward will always remain the closest and most loved.
Georgy Vitsin died on October 22, 2001, after a long and severe illness.