Nationality Russian | Years active 1955–1986 | |
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Full Name Yuri Stepanovich Chulyukin Movies The Girls, Kak stat schastlivym, Dubravka Similar Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Lyusyena Ovchinnikova, Natalya Kustinskaya, Stanislav Khitrov, Nikolai Rybnikov | ||
Yuri Stepanovich Chulyukin (Russian: Юрий Степанович Чулюкин; 1929-1987) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film actor, songwriter. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1979). Member of the CPSU since 1956. He is best known for directing the 1961 comedy film The Girls.
Biography
Yuri Chulyukin, graduated in 1956 from VGIK, where he studied with Grigory Alexandrov and Mikhail Chiaureli, worked briefly in television (took about three dozen essays). In 1958 Chulyukin he began work at Mosfilm.
He was married (1957-1966) to the actress Natalya Kustinskaya.
Since 1982 Yuri Chulyukin taught at VGIK. Repeatedly he served as a writer and actor.
Yuri Chulyukin died in Maputo (Mozambique) March 7, 1987, where he was as a member of a week of Soviet cinema. The circumstances preceding the death are still unknown. According to one version, he inadvertently fell into the shaft of the elevator of the hotel. However, there are suggestions that he was to be reset after the conflict.
He was buried in Moscow at Kuntsevo Cemetery.