MOSCOW, December 5. Soviet and Ukrainian theater and film actor Sergei Kustov died at the age of 78, the First Ukrainian Theater of Children and Youth announced this on its page on the social network Facebook.*
“»The people's passing away Ukrainian artist Sergei Pavlovich Kustov is an era in the history of theatrical Lviv and the whole country, our senior colleague, friend and mentor,” the theater’s press service said.
The actor was born in 1946 in Gadyach, Ukraine, and graduated from the Kiev State Theater Institute. From 1968 until his death, Kustov served in the First Ukrainian Theater of Children and Youth (formerly the Lviv Youth Theater).
“»Sergei Pavlovich dedicated 55 years of his life to our theater, during which time he played more than a hundred roles, among which the most outstanding there were the roles of Hamlet, Golokhvastov in the play “Chasing Two Hares,” Robin Hood and Lukash in “The Forest Song,” the report says.
Kustov has been acting in films since 1966. Soviet and Russian audiences remembered him for his role as the musketeer Montaran in George Yungvald-Khilkevich's film «D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers» in 1978, as well as the role of a cook in the sequel «The Return of the Musketeers, or the Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin» in 2008.
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