Yuri Sarantsev

Yuri Dmitriyevich Sarantsev (Russian: Ю́рий Дми́триевич Сара́нцев; 7 October 1928 – 24 August 2005) was a Soviet and Russian actor who appeared in numerous films between 1950 and 1999. He is most known for the 1962 sci-fi film Planeta Bur. He was also an accomplished voice actor, most famous for providing the voice for Ostap Bender in The Twelve Chairs (1971). People's Artist of Russia (2000).^[1]

Yuri Sarantsev
Born	Yuri Dmitriyevich Sarantsev (1928-10-07)7 October 1928 Bolshoy Melik, Balashovsky District, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Died	24 August 2005(2005-08-24) (aged 76) Moscow, Russia
Occupations	Actor, voice actor
Years active	1950–2005

Filmography

• The Village Doctor (1951) – cook (uncredited)
• True Friends (1954) – Seryozha
• Road to Life (1955) – Grisha Burun
• Good Morning (1955) – Vasya Plotnikov
• Different Fortunes (1956) – Galkin
• A Snow Fairy Tale (1959) – chauffeur's voice (played by Mikhail Pugovkin)
• Thrice Resurrected (1960) – Anton's voice (played by Gennady Pavlov)
• Planeta Bur (1962) – Ivan Shcherba
• Come Tomorrow, Please... (1963) – Kostya's voice (played by Yuri Gorobets)
• The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965) – Tarashkin
• Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) – Allen Sherman (uncredited; in original movie as Shcherba)
• Thirty Three (1965) – toothless taxi driver
• Little Fugitive (1966) – captain's assistant
• Give a Paw, Friend! (1967) – foreman of animal control service
• The Shield and the Sword (1968) – Gustav's voice (played by Ernst-Georg Schwill)
• Crime and Punishment (1969) – lieutenant Ilya Petrovich "Gunpowder"
• The Twelve Chairs (1971) – Ostap Bender's voice (played by Archil Gomiashvili)
• Train Stop – Two Minutes (1972) – Vlas Petrovich
• Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle (1973) – Vasily Vasilyevich
• Talents and Admirers (1973) – Gavrilo Petrovich Migaev
• You to Me, Me to You (1976) – Sergei Kashkin's voice (played by Leonid Kuravlyov)
• The Throw, or Everything Started on Saturday (1976) – Temirbek Sarsenbaev's voice (played by Yesbolgan Zhaisanbaev)
• Armed and Dangerous (1977) – Starbottle's voice (played by Algimantas Masiulis)
• Balamut (1978) – Aleksei Ivanovich
• Aquanauts (1979) – Selivanov
• Borrowing Matchsticks (1980) – Ville Huttunen's voice (played by Olavi Ahonen)
• Sailors Have No Questions (1980) – Alya's father
• Could One Imagine? (1981) – taxi driver's voice (played by Vladimir Prikhodko)
• Demidovs (1983) – voivode
• A Cruel Romance (1984) – Mikhin
• Sohni Mahiwal (1984) – warrior's voice in Soviet dub (played by Frunzik Mkrtchyan)
• One Second for a Feat (1985) – Romanenko
• Love with Privileges (1989) – Dr. Nikolai Yevgenyevich Kondakov
• The Return of the Battleship (1996) – janitor
• Red Square (2004) – Konstantin Chernenko

Awards and honors

• Order of the Badge of Honour (1976)
• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1981)
• Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1984)
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" (1997)
• People's Artist of Russia (2000)