Sergei Filippov years of life. Yuri Filippov. Father. Long return A very good text by the son of Yuri - about the wonderful actor Sergei Filippov. - I'm from your son. He asks to know

“Is there life on Mars, is there life on Mars”, “Masik wants vodka” - these phrases, uttered from the screen by Sergei Filippov, have become winged. During his life, he played in 100 films and was remembered by the audience as a bright comedian.

Sergei was the only son in the Filippov family. He was born on June 24, 1912 in one of the villages of the Saratov region. My father worked at the factory at the machine tool, my mother ran the household and took sewing home. The family lived from penny to penny.

When Sergei was 5 years old, the revolution began. The plant stopped, the father took to drink with grief. Once he returned home drunk and announced that he was leaving to fight: Sergei did not see his father again. Mother took on any job, so there was no time left for her son. And soon a stepfather appeared in the Filippovs' house. The actor recalled him as a powerful man who even put a gun under his pillow at night.

The nervous atmosphere was reflected in the studies and behavior of Sergei. He studied poorly, somehow in a chemistry lesson he almost blew up the school. Soon he was expelled. Then the mother took her son to work in a bakery, but even there he did not last long. Sergei Filippov was fired when, after reading a novel, he forgot to salt his bread. The guy also didn’t get along with the German cabinetmaker: he ruined an expensive antique cabinet by driving a dozen nails into it. Neither a locksmith, nor a gardener, nor a loader left him.

Sergey loved to dance, he could rehearse for hours near the mirror or watch rehearsals in the dance studio. He was taken to a dance class, although he was tall and thin. Filippov dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer, but he was too late - enrollment in ballet schools had already ended. Then the stubborn young man entered the circus variety college. After graduation, he managed to enter the troupe of the Opera and Ballet Theatre. True, at the fourth performance, Sergei Filippov lost consciousness right on the stage. Doctors stated a heart attack - I had to forget about a career in ballet.

Theatre

After an unsuccessful ballet career, Filippov went to work at the Variety Theater Studio. At one of his performances, he was noticed by Nikolai Akimov and offered to work at the Leningrad Comedy Theater. Sergey Filippov worked in this theater for 30 years, from 1935 to 1965. Here he played his best roles in the performances of "Dog in the Manger", "Not All the Cat Shrovetide", "Actress", "Simple Girl", "Inspector General" and dozens of others.

Sergei Filippov in the play "The Last Judgment", 1939

Filippov quickly became famous. In the pre-war and post-war years, there were not so many films made, so people willingly went to the theater. During the year, the Leningrad Variety Theater staged 16 performances - Sergei Nikolayevich participated in all of them. He skillfully and subtly managed to play everything ugly and vulgar that people have, and it was always unexpected and masterful.

In 1965, the actor was fired from the theater. The last straw was the obscene remarks that the drunken Filippov gave from behind the scenes. He was fired "of his own free will."

Films

Sergei Filippov began acting in films in 1937. He made his debut as a Finn in The Fall of Kimas Lake. Then there were shootings in Volochaevsky Days, Member of the Government, Schweika's New Adventures, Restless Household, Cinderella.

In the 40s, Soviet cinema could not boast of a large number of comedic actors, so the directors often invited the talented Sergei Filippov. One of the most striking was the role of a lecturer in the comedy Carnival Night. Another interesting work is Kazimir Almazov in the film "Tiger Tamer".

In 1965, Filippov had a brain tumor removed, but he continued to act in films. After the serial film "12 Chairs", in which he played Kisa Vorobyaninov, the actor could no longer walk freely along the street - passers-by recognized him and asked for an autograph.

In the 80s, Sergei Filippov almost did not appear on the screen due to health problems. One of the last works in the cinema was the episodic role of a patient in the film "Heart of a Dog" in 1988.

Personal life

Filippov was married twice. He met his first wife Alevtina Gorinovich at the school. Soon they got married, in 1936 Alevtina gave birth to a son, Yuri. Yura was 10 years old when her parents divorced. At first, Sergei maintained a relationship with his son, but then Alevtina Gorinovich immigrated to America. The departure of his ex-wife and son was a blow to the actor, he could not forgive them and did not read letters from his son.

Sergei Filippov was an ideological communist, after the divorce, he saw KGB agents and surveillance everywhere. He was afraid that they would come for him, and he was waiting for this.

The actor met his second wife Antonina Golubeva in a restaurant. In a fight, Filippov was hit with a fork, and Antonina helped stop the blood, consoled him. So they began to live together. Golubeva was 13 years older than her husband, controlled his every step, friends, phone calls, terribly jealous of his colleagues and fans.

Friends said that the actor was afraid of his powerful wife. He never called her by name - only Barabulka. Together they lived 40 years.

Antonina Golubeva was there when Sergei Filippov was fired from the theater, when he had a tumor removed, nursed, cared for, saved.

Death

Filippov survived his Red mullet by only a year. The death of his wife was a blow for him from which he could not recover: the cancer began to progress. The actor suffered from loneliness in the last years of his life. At the peak of his fame, he was wasteful, he did not save money for old age. Colleagues and friends looked at him only occasionally.

He died on April 19, 1990 in his apartment, all alone. His body was discovered by neighbors only two weeks after his death. They were struck by the beggarly situation in the apartment - there was no library, no expensive antiques. The actor sold something, something shortly before his death was taken by the relatives of Barabulka.

Money for the funeral was collected from acquaintances, the Lenfilm film studio did not allocate a penny. A modest coffin, a modest farewell to the last journey to the Northern Cemetery in St. Petersburg. The actor was buried next to his second wife.

Filmography

• 1945 - Hello, Moscow!
• 1954 - Tiger Tamer
• 1956 - "Different Fates"
• 1957 - "Girl without an address"
• 1958 - "On the Other Side"
• 1965 - "Foreigner"
• 1971 - "12 chairs"
• 1973 - "Ivan Vasilyevich is changing his profession"
• 1976 - “How Ivan the Fool went for a miracle”
• 1977 - "Incognito from St. Petersburg"
• 1980 - "Comedy of bygone days"
• 1982 - "Sportloto-82"
• 1985 - "Dangerous for life!"
• 1987 - "The Tale of the Painter in Love"
• 1988 - "Heart of a Dog"

“He was a strange person, with a peculiar manner of communication. I think such extraordinary personalities are born once in a hundred years. Being already an infirm old man, Sergei Filippov increasingly recalled his ballet past and was very sorry that he did not become a ballet star, but went to the cinema. He left the ballet against his will - the doctors discovered he had a brain tumor, performed a series of operations and forbade him to dance, "said Lyubov Tishchenko, the oldest employee of Lenfilm, in an interview with MK.

Sergey Nikolaevich broke up with his first wife after she emigrated to America.

“He was a communist to the marrow of his bones, so he regarded such an act of his wife as a betrayal. This noticeably affected his psyche. He later said: “Of course I was a fool. I had a completely different outlook on life, I was brought up that way. Years later, he realized that he had done wrong. Once Filippov confessed to me that he would never have left his wife if she had not gone to the States," she recalls.

Sergey Filipov did not communicate with his son, his wife took the boy with her.

“I remember that Sergei Nikolayevich pulled out a whole pack of unopened letters from his son from under the bed. “If you want, read it, but I’m not interested,” he told me. But the most interesting thing is that he didn’t throw a single letter away. Apparently, he was waiting for something "I hoped that my son would return. My son arrived only five years ago, when Sergei Filippov was no longer alive."

The second wife of the actor was a certain Antonina Golubeva, who was twenty years older than Filippov. In the acting environment, this woman at that time caused a storm of negative emotions.

“I don’t know what caused such an attitude towards this touching and loving woman. Filippov called her Barabulka and became very attached to her. Golubeva was a writer, however, she wrote only one book. It was a strange family, absolutely unadapted to life. Barabulka and her granddaughter did not communicate at all. Once she invited Filippov to meet with them, but he flatly refused. But they showed up after the death of the actor. Literally in two days they took all the furniture and expensive service from Filippov’s apartment, the rest of the things were handed over to the commission, "said Tishchenko .

“Filippov was a very wasteful person, so he didn’t save anything for his old age. And in his youth, he didn’t even know the value of certain things. In Soviet times, he could get any deficit and constantly spoiled his friends,” says Lyubov Tishchenko. there was a very rich library in the house. When I once again came to his house, I did not find a single book. It turns out that when Filippov had problems with money, Golubeva sold the entire library for some ridiculous money. The worst thing is that in Sergei Nikolaevich kept a decent stash in one of the volumes.

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"No matter how trite it sounds, Filippov was ruined by fame! During the period of his wild popularity, everyone wanted to drink with him. When Filippov's body was young and strong, he did not refuse anyone. And then the actor could not do without it. Every day he definitely needs was to take cognac or vodka. Recently, Filippov completely stopped drinking. Firstly, he had nothing to buy alcohol, and he never asked anyone for a loan. Secondly, he was already a seriously ill person, "recalls employee of Lenfilm.

Lyubov Grigorievna Tishchenko looked after Filippov in the last years of his life.

“I always liked him as a person. This unsociable rude actor was actually a touching and vulnerable person. Although he seemed cruel to strangers. After all, he could easily offend a complete stranger - get nasty and even send obscenities. But this was not a real Filippov, in this way he defended himself. He was extremely negative about his own popularity. He sincerely hated his fans. After the release of the film "The Twelve Chairs," he could not calmly walk down the street - people wanted to touch him, talk to him. Filippov was terribly annoyed. There were fights," she says.

Tishchenko said that Filippov was a lonely person. He himself chose this way of life - he did not let anyone into his house, turned off the phone. Colleagues at Lenfilm, knowing his harsh disposition, simply deleted him from their lives. According to her, he didn’t even call doctors at home, probably he was very ashamed of his appearance, of the mess that was going on in the apartment. Lyubov Nikolaevna came once a week and did the cleaning. Over the years, Filippov became embittered.

St. Petersburg actors have always been deprived, but Filippov was literally in poverty against the background of others.

“I didn’t pay the rent for months. You won’t believe it, but he was literally starving. I helped as much as I could - I bought cereals, a lemon, a piece of cheese. And recently he began to refuse food altogether,” recalls an employee of Lenfilm. He never asked anyone for anything. At the end of his life, Sergei Nikolayevich did not even have things left. Either sold everything, or worn out. A month before his death, we put him in the hospital. So he did not have slippers in which he could leave the house. We had to run all over the city looking for size 47 shoes. That's how they hospitalized him - in some slippers and some kind of torn shirt.

According to her, Filippov was already a different person a month before his death. He suffered from headaches, his whole body ached, and his psyche was also not all right. When Tishchenko came to his house, he met her in what her mother gave birth.

Sergei Filippov died on April 19, 1990. He was buried next to Golubeva. A few days before his death, the actor told Lyubov Tishchenko about his dream.

“You know, all my life I wanted to play a positive tragic role, and I got some vile types,” Filippov sighed. “I even cried when I found out that the main role in the film “When the trees were big” went to Yuri Nikulin.

The actor's son became an artist. Yuri Filippov graduated from the Higher Art and Industrial School. Mukhina, worked in Europe, Asia and America. In addition to painting, he was engaged in design, now he is passionate about caricature. About his famous father, Yuri Sergeevich wrote the book “Is there life on Mars”. She came out in 2009. Now he is preparing for publication a book of aphorisms by Sergei Filippov with his own illustrations.

Yuri Sergeevich, childhood memories are always the most vivid. What do you remember from your conversation with your father?

Before my parents divorced, I hardly remember anything. Was then very small. And after my mom and dad broke up, my father came for me in a taxi and took me to various interesting places. We often went hunting with him.

Was he a hunter?

He thought he was a hunter. I have his gun. But this is not even a gun, but a hybrid of a clarinet instead of a barrel and butt. But then it was believed that we hunted terribly. Although not a single animal was harmed by our hunt. My father used to joke that when he goes hunting, he pours alcohol into the tires of his car to save space. But I took it seriously and could not understand how they and their friends, after drinking the contents on flat tires, get home.

In the biographies of Sergei Nikolayevich, which are published, there are a lot of inconsistencies ...

Yes, that's because he never talked about himself. This was the reason to start a great work and write a book about my father.

Are you worried about your parents' divorce?

Certainly. But my mother was such a person, she thought that her husband should come home in the evening and nail carnations, fix the house. Well, what is the arrangement of the actor's house in the evening? Especially so famous and popular ... But even when they parted, I saw that they loved each other. Sergei Nikolayevich had a difficult relationship with his new wife, writer Antonina Golubeva.

He often told her during quarrels: “I have a beautiful wife and a talented son, and you are a policeman.” Golubeva was 15 years older than him and was insanely jealous. Often the father left the house clean, in an ironed suit, and returned all tattered. I think it was because of a sense of contradiction, a kind of protest.

Many of his colleagues recalled that Sergei Nikolaevich often came to his second family drunk, but Golubeva used this to put pressure on him. In the morning, she always told him: “Seryozha, you carried such things yesterday! You will be jailed for it. Only I can save you." As a man of his time, he, of course, was afraid that he had spoken too much to the drunk, that he might be imprisoned. He was far from a strong-willed person, and Golubeva skillfully used this.

When you were in school, your father was already a very famous actor. Did your classmates envy you?

And in our class there were three Filippovs (laughs). The teachers didn't single me out. But the glory of my father periodically passed on to me, and still passes. I recently went to a restaurant, as dad would say, “drink a glass of soup.” And two respected respectable people are sitting there, one says to the other: “Izya, do you know who this came to us?” “Of course, Yura Filippov, famous artist, son of Smoktunovsky.” And the second rises from the table and adds: “No, Nikulina!” In general, what can I say, my poor mother! Of course it's funny.

Photo from the family archive of Yu. Filippov

Were your meetings with your father frequent?

Yes, frequent. We played the guitar with him (I still have my father's guitar, it is from 1906), I went to the theater a lot, and in the theater Nikolai Pavlovich Akimov taught me a little what he could. With his help, I learned to work with the iso-hieroglyph. After all, Akimov's posters are all made in iso-hieroglyphs. But somehow he was not enthusiastic about my work. My father and I took photographs together, it was his hobby, I took a lot of pictures of my mother.

And then I went to America. I wanted to try myself. I then worked in the art fund and was in very good standing. He did the city museum, the Ushakov museum, the Pushkin museum - he developed the design. Once I came to an art fund, and its chairman told me about my work: “Yura, you have to be more modest, you are not yet in Chicago.” You have to do something so stupid! And I immediately answered him: “What advice do you give? Thanks. I'll take it into account." And then I thought that in America I would turn around. And went. No sooner said than done!

Photo from the family archive of Yu. Filippov

Sergei Nikolayevich could not forgive you for this?

I think he was just afraid. His wife inspired him that because of the emigration of his son, there could be serious trouble and it was better to stop communicating. And I wrote to my father, but he was so scared that he didn’t even open my letters, though he kept them in the nightstand next to the bed. In these letters, I sent my stories, which, according to my idea, he was supposed to read from the stage.

When he died, they didn't even tell me about it. The apartment stood open for a long time after his death. And the “good people” took everything out of there. At first, everything Golubeva's relatives could bear. They consider themselves the heirs of Filippov, even in some documentary, Filippov's "great-grandson" appeared. Then, suddenly, a nephew showed up. And no one was embarrassed that Filippov has only one son, and I have no children. And then someone from the acting fraternity took things out of the apartment. They took as a keepsake - someone a book, someone a photo. Many then said that they would like to give these things. But I do not need what people have taken as a keepsake. I was informed of my father's death only two years later. We had a hard time finding his grave.

Photo from the family archive of Yu. Filippov

Do you know how he lived in his last years?

After the death of Golubeva, he was left completely alone. The actress Lyubov Tishchenko helped him a lot. You can say about her - this is kindness itself. His fellow student in the choreographic department of the variety and circus technical school lived with him until the last. These two old men lived together in recent years. Lyubov Tishchenko told her father more than once: “Read the letters, after all, the son wrote.” And he told her: “If you want, read it yourself!”

Did he die at home?

Nobody knows for sure. Someone says that he was taken to the hospital, someone that he died at home and lay in bed for almost a week until they found him. He was a very sick man. A third of the stomach was cut out, but he is said to have died of lung cancer.

Did Sergey Nikolayevich still have a complicated operation to remove a brain tumor?

This operation was performed on him in 1971. And after that he lived another 25 years. The tumor was not malignant. He then even joked: “Do you want to touch my brain?” Since they sawed off part of the bone and covered everything with only skin, a small piece throbbed on his head. Ryazanov wanted to shoot him in "The Extraordinary Adventures of Italians in Russia", but was afraid to take it, because his father was very weak after the operation. This role was perfectly played by Evstigneev.

Why, when leaving, you could not say goodbye to your father?

Say goodbye to Golubeva! The actors called her “a policeman in a skirt”, and Filippova “a boy from Urzhum” after the title of her book. I didn't have a relationship with her right away. I was a boy not that sarcastic, but dissenting. So I come to them somehow, and she behaves like a teacher: “Boy, do you like poetry?” And I, of course, liked to shoot more from a slingshot ... “What poems did you learn?” And it just doesn't lag behind. And we had a book by Arkhangelsky "Parody" at home. And so I began to read: “Not a girl - a raspberry, a masterpiece on the canvas, Marusya Magdalene completely undressed ..”. She is shocked: “What disgusting! Hooligan!" And I continue: “Vasya, oh my God, a huge blister jumped up on pink skin on his skin ..”. For some reason, I really liked about the blister. “This is a bad poem!” And she gave me her book “The Boy from Urzhum”. Of course, I immediately threw this book away.

Photo from the family archive of Yu. Filippov

How did your father react to all this?

He's already tired of all this. It's how she met him. Since, after the divorce, his mother asked him to leave the house, Akimov rented a room for him in Astoria and he went to dine in a restaurant (his father was very fond of the feast). When he dined at Astoria, he invited everyone to his table. A military, naval admiral passes by a huge growth: “Hello, Sergey Nikolaevich!” And he replies: “Hey, old man!” He is indignant: “I'm not an old man! I am Admiral Zasosov, a well-known military doctor.” - "Yes? Well, rake it up, and we'll suck it together!” And then this “rake” then just became a common expression. And the phrase “There are no ugly women, there is little vodka” also belongs to Filippov.

And somehow there, once again, they drank with friends and there was a drunken fight. Sergei Nikolaevich was a sharp man and he answered something to someone, and he rushed at him with a fork and injured his hand. Immediately, the screams began: “The artist is being killed!” The police showed up. Everyone was taken away, except for Filippov. Still an idol! And Golubeva was sitting nearby at the table, she immediately rushed to bandage his wounded hand, and then took him to her, because she lived nearby. And in the morning he wakes up with her.

Did women love your father?

Very. There was just no rebound. I'm still amazed at how many fans he had. This was the reason for the divorce from my mother.

Why is the bust from Filippov's grave now kept at your home?

The bust that stood on the grave of Sergei Nikolaevich was not made precisely as a monument to the grave. It was presented to him by an unknown author and stood for a long time in his closet. We have been looking for this artist for a long time, but without success. The bust contains 36 kg of bronze. They tried to carry him away from the grave. Therefore, I had to put a copy there, and save this gift of an unknown artist.

What is Sergey Filippov like as a man through the eyes of his son?

Very kind but reserved. Moreover, he became closed precisely in his second marriage. He had such beautiful admirers. But he was broken by the fact that Golubeva was constantly blackmailing him, and he was very afraid. Gomiashvili said that during the filming of “12 Chairs” (she went everywhere with him, she wouldn’t let him take a step alone) on the ship, Sergey Nikolaevich would drink as soon as he started chasing her. And he wasn't shy about expressing himself. Until he was completely overwhelmed by his new wife, he was different.

Photo from the family archive of Yu. Filippov

Why was one of your exhibitions dedicated to Sergei Filippov called "Following the footsteps of my father"?

It’s just that he often repeated to me: “Son, follow in the footsteps of your father. The method of traffic jams and errors. Here I go.

Before becoming an actor Filippov in his native Saratov, he worked with anyone: he was a carpenter, a baker at a bakery, a janitor, and a gardener. But he had one dream: the stage. True, not a drama theater, but a ballet one. Sergei Filippov graduated from the ballet department of the circus and variety school in Leningrad, the teachers predicted a wonderful future for him in classical dance: the good thing was physical data and growth for the performance of the main ballet heroes and princes. But doctors immediately after graduating from college diagnosed him with a brain tumor. They did not offer to operate, but serious physical exertion was strictly forbidden. So Filippov's first dream was shattered.

Frame from the film "An Old Acquaintance", 1969. Photo: RIA Novosti

The failed ballet star went to the Leningrad Comedy Theater to the director Akimov. It quickly became clear that Filippov had the brightest talent as a comedian. Later, the actor, having played in dozens of films, will bitterly say that the directors do not see him as a "main dish", but only use his talent as "spicy seasoning for insipid". Agreeing to participate in "Carnival Night" Eldara Ryazanova, Filippov later extremely regretted that he played this boring lecturer. As soon as he appeared in public, everyone around immediately began to quote his hero: “One star, two stars, three stars.” According to the recollections of colleagues, the actor was simply shaking with indignation. After all, he dreamed of a serious dramatic role. He wanted to play in drama, tragedy, but they offered solid comedies. And it would be nice if he played the main characters in them, but no, he got some episodes: “Ivan Vasilyevich changes his profession”, “Tiger Tamer”, etc. When Sergey Nikolaevich found out that the role in the film “When the Trees Were Big” him, and Yuri Nikulin he cried. In order to somehow relieve tension, the artist began to drink ... Then more and more.

Having agreed to participate in Eldar Ryazanov's Carnival Night, Filippov later regretted extremely that he had played this boring lecturer. 1956 film frame

Can beat cancer

He had only one main character in the film: Kisa Vorobyaninov in "12 Chairs" Leonid Gaidai. But participation in this film almost cost the actor his life. Just before the start of filming, Filippov began to have terrible headaches. By that time, he had already been diagnosed with brain cancer. The director decided to replace the actor with Rostislav Plyatt. But Filippov called Leonid Gaidai and said: he will play Ippolit Matveyevich, no matter what it costs him. The director found himself in a difficult situation: on the one hand, he did not want to offend Filippov, on the other hand, a serious illness of the performer could jeopardize the shooting. But when Plyatt found out about Sergey Filippov's passionate desire to play Kisa Vorobyaninov, Rostislav Yanovich called Gaidai and refused this role. At the end of filming, Filippov became worse, he was urgently taken to the hospital. But, fortunately, the treatment was successful, the artist lived for more than 20 years. But his crown never grew back after the operation, only thin skin instead of bone grew in this place. But the actor even managed to joke about this topic. For example, the minister of culture Furtseva called him a fool once. After that, Filippov always told his colleagues that in vain, they say, Furtseva considers him a fool, because only part of his brain was cut out.

Participation in the film "12 Chairs" almost cost the actor his life. 1971 Film frame

The personal life of the actor was also difficult. He was very fond of his first wife, a ballet dancer Alevtina Gorinovich, a son, Yuri, was born in marriage. But the ballerina decided to emigrate to the United States and put Filippov in front of a choice: if you want to be with me, go to America too. For Filippov, this option for preserving the family was unacceptable: betrayal of the motherland was worse than loneliness and the loss of a son.

Then Filippov remarried: a woman was found who became his guardian angel. Living with her, Filippov stopped drinking. It was Antonina Golubeva, specialist in Russian folklore, author of books for children and youth about the life of a revolutionary Sergei Kirov, articles about the Russian emigration.

Sergei Filippov. Photo: www.globallookpress.com

Colleagues who visited Filippov recalled that Antonina Georgievna was a wonderful person and very kind. They lived amicably and cheerfully, the actor called his wife Barabulka. But the hostess Golubeva was completely careless. The house was always not tidy, and often there was nothing to eat. So, one of the actresses recalls that she once saw on Sergei Nikolayevich ... a sweater with a hole. The wife cut out with scissors those places that the moth had beaten. And Golubeva was insanely jealous of Filippov: she was 13 years older than him. When his wife died, Sergei Filippov could not cope with the blow of fate. A year later, he was gone. He was buried in Leningrad, at the Northern Cemetery, next to Antonina Golubeva, his guardian angel Barabulka.

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1957).
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1974).

Born in a simple working family. His father was a locksmith, and his mother was a dressmaker. At school, Sergei Filippov did not study well, and in high school he even became known as a bully. One of his favorite subjects (there were only two of them - literature and chemistry) let him down: somehow, in the absence of a teacher, he mixed hydrochloric acid with iron filings, added a couple of reagents. After such an experiment, a terribly pungent smell spread throughout the school. Classes were disrupted, and Sergei Filippov was expelled from school.
After being expelled from school, he got a job as an apprentice baker in a private bakery. But this work was of little interest to him, and over the next months he tried several professions, from a turner to a carpenter, until a chance led him to a ballet studio. The classes so fascinated Sergei that in a few weeks he was considered the best student and a bright future in ballet opened up before him. In 1929, on the advice of teachers, Filippov went to Moscow to enter the ballet school at the Bolshoi Theater.
Arriving in the capital, he found out that the entrance exams had already ended, and on the advice of knowledgeable people he went to Leningrad, to the choreographic school. But he was late for these exams and applied to the newly opened variety and circus technical school, where he was accepted. The teachers predicted a bright future for the gifted student, and after graduating from a technical school, in 1933, Sergei Filippov was accepted into the troupe of the Opera and Ballet Theatre.
The career of a ballet dancer turned out to be too short - during the next performance, Filippov became ill. Arriving doctors stated a heart attack and advised to leave the ballet. Filippov entered the variety theater studio. He performed a lot at the variety venues in Leningrad, and during one of the concerts he was noticed by Nikolai Pavlovich Akimov, who offered the young actor to go to the Comedy Theater.
In 1935-1965 he was an artist of the Leningrad Comedy Theatre.
Since 1965 he has been an actor at the Lenfilm film studio.

Sergey Filippov died on April 19, 1990 from lung cancer in Leningrad. The actor was buried in the Northern Cemetery.

In 2009, the book of the actor's son - Yuri Sergeevich Filippov - "Sergey Filippov. Is there life on Mars" was published.

Sergei Filippov is the subject of documentaries from the series “My Silver Ball”, “How the Idols Left”, “To Remember”, etc.

theatrical work

In the performances of the Leningrad Comedy Theater:
* "Simple girl" 1938, V.V. Shkvarkin, director Erast Garin, the role of the house manager Makarov.
* "The Last Judgment" 1939, V.V. Shkvarkin, director Nikolai Akimov and Pavel Sukhanov, the role of Rodionov, a member of the local committee.
* "Lev Gurych Sinichkin" 1946, D.T. Lensky, director and thin. Nikolai Akimov, the role of the owner of the theater Pustoslavtsev.
* "There is enough simplicity for every wise man", A.N. Ostrovsky, 1946, dir. Boris Zon, the role of Krutitsky.
* "Inspector" N.V. Gogol, 1958, dir. Nikolai Akimov, the role of Osip.
* "What will they say tomorrow", 1958, D.N. Al and L.L. Rakov, director Pavel Sukhanov, the role of Bruskov.