title: Sergey Martinson
text: Sergey Aleksandrovich Martinson (;  – 2 September 1984) was a Soviet and Russian stage, film and voice actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1964).
  
  He was born in Saint Petersburg in the family of Swedish and Russian descent. His parents adored theater and took their son to many performances. As a schoolboy, Sergey played in a theatrical studio.
  
  After one year of education in the Technological institute, he decided to become a professional actor. At the entrance exams he read Boris Godunov's monologue from Pushkin's play. The exam board roared with laughter, but refused to accept him. He later joined the theatrical institute from a second attempt.
  
  Martinson worked in several theaters. In 1924–1941 he played in the Theatre of the Revolution. In 1925–1926, 1929–1933, 1937–1938 he was the leading actor of Vsevolod Meyerhold's theatre. He was cast by Meyerhold in the plays The Government Inspector, Mandate and others. From 1933 to 1936 he worked in the music hall.
  
  He married his first wife, Yekaterina Ilyinichna Ilyina (born: 1900, St Petersburg, Russia, died: 1985, New York, USA), an actress, in 1927, whom he met during his acting studies; their daughter, Anna, later a successful artist and costume designer, was born in 1928 (died New York, 2012), she married the Russian conductor and violist Rudolf Barshai (1924–2010). Although they had never officially divorced, he married his second wife, dancer Lola Dobrokhotova, who was later exiled by the government for alleged connections to "foreign elements" and died in exile; they had a son, Aleksandr (1939–2003). His third wife, Luisa (born: Ukraine, 1929, died: 2018, USA) was a woman 30 years junior to Martinson. They had a daughter, Natasha (born 1956) and divorced several years later.
  
  Filmography
  
  Films 
  
   The Adventures of Oktyabrina (1924) – Coolidge Kerzonovich Poincaré
   The Devil's Wheel (1926) – Orchestra conductor
   Little Brother (1927) – Trust director
   The Deserter (1933) – Passerby
   Marionettes (1934) – G, the Barber
   Loss of Sensation (1935) – Dizer, music hall artist
   Treasure Island (1937) – Bradley
   The Oppenheim Family (1938) – Gutwetter, poet
   Stepan Razin (1939) – Fyodor Shpyn
   The Golden Key (1939) – Duremar
   Anton Ivanovich Is Angry (1941) – Kerosinov, composer
   We from the Urals (1943) – Dance club manager
   Silva (1944) – Count Boni
   The Wedding (1944) – Ivan Mikhailovich Yat, telegrapher
   Secret Agent (1947) – Willi Pommer
   The Third Blow (1948) – Adolf Hitler
   Przhevalsky (1951) – Andrei Ivanovich Shatilo, professor
   Sadko (1952) – Inok
   Attack from the Sea (1953) – Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
   Ilya Muromets (1956) – Boyar Mishatychka
   A Crazy Day (1956) – Miusov
   The Idiot (1958) – Lebedev
   Scarlet Sails (1961) – Philip, coal miner
   The Night Before Christmas (1961) – Osip Nikiforovich, diak
   Wind of Freedom (1961) – Innkeeper
   Funny Stories (1962) – Lyuska the dog's owner
   Tale about the Boy-Kibalchish (1964) – Agent 518
   Tale About the Lost Time (1964) – Prokofy Prokofyevich the Evil Wizard
   Thirty Three (1965) – Valentin Petrovich, Rozochka's father
   The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1966) – Saltan's guardian
   The Beautiful Girl (1969) – Lonely old man with cane
   Ruslan and Ludmila (1972) – Byzantine ambassador
   Armed and Dangerous (1977) – Mr. Trott
   The New Adventures of Captain Wrongel (1978) – Sir Vant, bandit leader
   The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981) – Mr. Frankland
   And Life, and Tears, and Love (1983) – Yegoshkin
  
  Voice acting 
  
   The Lost Letter (1945) – Witch
   The Enchanted Boy (1955) – Rat leader
   The Snow Queen (1957) – The Raven
   The Adventures of Buratino (1959) – Mantis the Doctor
   It Was I Who Drew the Little Man (1960) – Chalk-drawn Little Man / Eight-legged creature
   Cipollino (1961) – Prince Lemon / One of Lemon's soldiers
   The Key (1961) – Zmei Gorynych's second head
   The Wild Swans (1962) – Monk
   Adventures of Mowgli (1967–1971) – Tabaqui
  
  References
  
  External links
    Wikipedia in Russian
    Biography
    About Sergey Martinson
   
  
  1899 births
  1984 deaths
  20th-century Russian male actors
  Male actors from Saint Petersburg
  People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd
  Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology alumni
  Honored Artists of the RSFSR
  People's Artists of the RSFSR
  Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
  Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
  Russian people of Swedish descent
  Russian male film actors
  Russian male silent film actors
  Russian male stage actors
  Russian male voice actors
  Soviet male film actors
  Soviet male silent film actors
  Soviet male stage actors
  Soviet male voice actors
  Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery