Les Serdyuk

Ukrainian actor (1940–2010)

Les Serdyuk
Serdyuk in 2008
Born	(1940-10-14)14 October 1940 Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	26 May 2010(2010-05-26) (aged 69) Kyiv, Ukraine
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1953–2010
Spouse	Irina Bunina^[1]
Children	2

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Serdyuk (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Сердюк), also known as Les Serdyuk (Ukrainian: Лесь Сердюк; 14 October 1940 – 26 May 2010), was a Soviet and Ukrainian theater and film actor. He received the title of People's Artist of Ukraine (1996).^[2]

Biography

Born into a family of People's Artist of the USSR Aleksandr Ivanovich Serdyuk.^[3] In 1961 he graduated from Kharkiv National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts.

From 1961 to 1964 years, he was an actor of the Taras Shevchenko Kharkiv Academic Ukrainian Drama Theatre. He was subsequently an actor at the Riga Youth Theatre for an additional two years before joining the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama. In 1970, he began working with Dovzhenko Film Studios.

In 2008, after a 37-year break, he returned to the stage as part of the troupe Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater.^[4]

Death

He passed away on May 26, 2010, at the age of 69 in Kyiv due to lung cancer, which was diagnosed in the actor in the spring of 2009.^[5] He underwent chemotherapy treatment in Kyiv, but it was unsuccessful. He was buried on May 28 at Baikove Cemetery.^[6]^[7]

Selected filmography

1954: Marina's Destiny as Gnat Petrovich Podkova
1968: In the Kyiv area as Mykhailo Burmystenko^[8]
1968: The Experiment of Dr. Abst as Bruno
1970: Sespel as episode
1972: Criminal Investigation Inspector as Aleksei Mikhailovich Sharun
1972: Night Rider as Savchenko
1972: Lavri as Tokovoy
1978: Zestoke godine as Latyshev
1979: Babylon XX as Danko
1981: Such Late, Such Warm Autumn as Melety / Ivan Meletyevich
1984: The Legend of Princess Olga as Prince Sviatoslav I
1988: The Mountains are Smoking (TV Movie) as Martin Pogodnyak
1989: Seromanets as Vasily Chepizhny
1991: The First Рrinter Revelation as Garaburda
1995: Stracheni svitanki as episode
1997: Roksolana as Kasim Pasha
2002: A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa as Ivan Samoylovych
2009: Taras Bulba as Dmytro

References

^ «Беда от нежного сердца. Рассказ о Буниной»
^ Лесь Сердюк // КиноПоиск
^ "Народный артист Украины Лесь СЕРДЮК: «Все беды мои от того, что вел себя в молодости совершенно непотребно: пил, бездумно растрачивал жизнь, не ценил того, что имел»". bulvar.com.ua. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
^ Биография. Archived 2013-06-09 at the Wayback Machine
^ Народный артист Украины Лесь Сердюк: «Все беды мои от того, что вёл себя в молодости совершенно непотребно: пил, бездумно растрачивал жизнь, не ценил того, что имел»
^ "Лесь Сердюк (Александр Сердюк): биография". 21 July 2010. Archived from the original on 21 July 2010. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
^ "Київ попрощався з Лесем Сердюком". 2 September 2010. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
^ Фильмография (ru)