Biography

Sergey Obraztsov is a Soviet actor, puppet theater director, publicist, writer.

He was born in Moscow. His father, Vladimir Nikolaevich Obraztsov, was an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939), a famous scientist, a specialist in the operation of railway transport, one of the central streets of Moscow is named after him. His mother Anna von Rehbinder was a teacher.

In 1918 Sergey Obraztsov becomes a student at the Higher Art and Theater Workshops, but a few years later he entered the Music Studio of the Moscow Art Theater, and since 1922, he, an actor of the Moscow Art Theater-2, comprehends the secrets of the acting profession and directing, playing next to Ivan Bersenev, Sofiya Giatsintova, Serafima Birman. Since the mid-1930s, he has gained fame as a pop artist and creator of the parody genre of "romances with dolls."

In 1931 Obraztsov created a unique puppet theater and was its permanent director for more than sixty years. He did a lot to develop the theory and methodology of puppet theater, determine its genre features, invent new puppet systems, raised and educated several generations of brilliant actors, directors, stage designers, artists and playwrights of the puppet theater, who today work in hundreds of theaters in dozens of countries around the world.

Since 1956, he also worked in cinema as a screenwriter and director, creator of the documentary monologue genre. In the same year, at the Soyuzmultfilm film studio, together with Georgi Natanson, he created the full-length puppet cartoon Nebesnoe sozdanie (1956).
- IMDb mini biography by: Bazza the Beast