Sergei Martinson (25.01 (06.02) .1899), Russian Soviet actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1964).
In 1923 he graduated from the Institute for the Performing Arts (Leningrad), played in pop bands.
Between 1924 and played in Moscow in Theatre. Meyerholda (Valerian – "Mandate" Erdman and others), while at the Theatre of the Revolution (Mr. Pickle – "Hop-la, we live in!" Toller, KARANDYSHOV – Dowerless Ostrovsky).
During these years, speaking in Moscow myuzikholle, played the role Skameykina ("Under the big top"), etc.
Since 1945, the troupe's Studio Theatre actor (now Central Studio actor). Played this role: Zhivnovskogo ("Death Pazukhin" Saltykov-Shchedrin), Prince of Kostroma ("Uncle's Dream" Dostoevsky), Harrison ("Again the prime minister, or The Taming of the Shrew" Terter), etc.
Between 1924 and acted in movies, the first role – Poincare ("The Adventures Oktyabrina"). The best part: the barber Sol ("Puppets", 1934), composer of kerosene ("Anton Ivanovich is angry", 1941), telegraph YAT ("Wedding", 1944), Prince of Kostroma ("Uncle's Dream, 1967).
In the film "New Adventures of Schweik (1943)," Third Strike "(1948) created a satirical image of Hitler.
For iskusstvava Martinson, bearing mostly satirical in nature, typical methods of variety and music hall, hyperbolic acuity, expressive external image, the propensity to pantomime.