ACTOR

Mikhail Pugovkin

1923 - 2008

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Mikhail Ivanovich Pugovkin (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Пу́говкин; 13 July 1923 — 25 July 2008) was a Soviet and Russian comic actor named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1988. He studied in the Moscow Art Theatre school under Ivan Moskvin, took part in World War II and, following demobilisation, was featured in the 1944 all-star cast adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Wedding. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Pugovkin has received more than 55,295 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Mikhail Pugovkin is the 3,752nd most popular actor (down from 3,487th in 2019), the 1,540th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,414th in 2019) and the 68th most popular Russian Actor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mikhail Pugovkin ranks 3,752 out of 13,578. Before him are Stanislav Lyubshin, Peppino De Filippo, Ernst Deutsch, Billie Whitelaw, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, and Jobyna Ralston. After him are L. Scott Caldwell, Michael Gross, John Diehl, Ross Martin, Mae Busch, and Conrad Nagel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Mikhail Pugovkin ranks 280. Before him are Hassan Ali Mansur, Daniil Shafran, Bülent Ulusu, Oskar Fischer, Patrick Hillery, and Ennio de Concini. After him are Jim Reeves, Bruno Zumino, Adolf Grünbaum, Isao Kimura, Ernesto Prinoth, and Lygia Fagundes Telles. Among people deceased in 2008, Mikhail Pugovkin ranks 202. Before him are Rina Zaripova, Cedella Booker, Patrick Hillery, Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, Ennio de Concini, and Nadezhda Rumyantseva. After him are Odetta, Nikola Kljusev, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Christodoulos of Athens, Van Johnson, and Badri Patarkatsishvili.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Pugovkin ranks 1,540 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Semashko (1874), Alexander Kokorinov (1726), Nadezhda Rumyantseva (1930), Daniil Medvedev (1996), Mikhail Katkov (1818), and Stanislav Lyubshin (1933). After him are Bernd Kannenberg (1942), Ivan Ivanov-Vano (1900), Efim Zelmanov (1955), Viktor Nogin (1878), Alexey Bogolyubov (1824), and Klaus-Dieter Sieloff (1942).

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Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Mikhail Pugovkin ranks 68. Before him are Aleksandr Abdulov (1953), Sergei Yursky (1935), Vladimir Sokoloff (1889), Oleg Vidov (1943), Nadezhda Rumyantseva (1930), and Stanislav Lyubshin (1933). After him are Natalya Seleznyova (1945), Klara Rumyanova (1929), Natalya Bondarchuk (1950), Gennady Khazanov (1945), Mikhail Shchepkin (1788), and Leonid Filatov (1946).

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Television and Movie Roles

Operation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures
прораб, новелла «Напарник»
The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik (alternative spelling — Shourick), the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly. "Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures" was a hit movie and became the leader of Soviet film distribution in 1965.
Jul 24th 19657.623 / 10
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Карп Савельевич Якин
A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.
Sep 17th 19737.933 / 10
It Can't Be!
Grigori Gorbushkin
The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.
Oct 23rd 19757.2 / 10