{{Short description|Soviet-Belarusian actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Rostislav Yankovsky | post-nominals = | native_name = Ростислав Янковский | native_name_lang = ru | image = Rostislav Yankovsky.jpg | image_size = 220px | caption = Yankovsky in 2008 | birth_name = Расціслаў Іванавіч Янкоўскі<br>Rostislav Ivanovich Yankovsky | birth_place = Odesa, Ukraine | birth_date = 5 February 1930 | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|06|26|1930|02|05|df=yes}} | death_place = Minsk, Belarus | awards = People's Artist of the USSR<br>(1978) | relatives = Oleg Yankovsky<br><small>(brother)</small><br />Igor Yankovsky<br /><small>(son)</small> }}
'''Rostislav Ivanovich Yankovsky'''<ref name="y">{{Cite web|url=http://postkomsg.ru/node/78|title=Ростислав Янковский|trans-title=Rostislav Yankovsky|language=Russian}}</ref> ({{langx|be|Расціслаў Іванавіч Янкоўскі}}; {{Langx|uk|Ростислав Іванович Янковський}}; {{langx|ru|Ростислав Иванович Янковский}};<ref name="y" /> 5 February 1930 – 26 June 2016) was a Belarusian actor. He was born in Odesa on 5 February 1930, studied in Leninabad<ref>[http://www.teleobektiv.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31804:2015-05-25-10-10-54&catid=93:2011-01-02-02-00-23&Itemid=111 Умер брат Олега Янковского. Биография]</ref> and debuted in the Tajik theatre in 1951. Since 1957, he worked in the Minsk Drama Theatre. Yankovsky was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1978. He is the older brother of the more famous Oleg Yankovsky.<ref name="y" /> His son Igor Yankovsky is also an actor. In 1994 he became the Chairman of the Minsk International Film Festival Listapad.<ref>[https://ctv.by/kinofestival-stal-chastyu-zhizni-kak-yankovskomu-udalos-sozdat-i-organizovat-kinofestival-listapad Кинофестиваль стал частью жизни. Как Янковскому удалось создать и организовать кинофестиваль «Лістапад»] // Capital TV</ref>
He died in Minsk on 26 June 2016 in Minsk, Belarus, aged 86.<ref>[https://www.kp.ru/online/news/2433324/ В Минске умер белорусский актер Ростислав Янковский]</ref><ref>[http://en.ctv.by/en/1467010246-belarusian-actor-rostislav-yankovsky-passes-away-aged-86 Belarusian actor Rostislav Yankovsky passes away aged 86]</ref>
== Filmography == {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1958 | ''Happiness Must Be Рrotected'' | Conferee | Uncredited |- | 1958 | ''Red Leaves'' | Viktor | |- | 1960 | ''Lullaby'' |officer | Uncredited |- | 1968 | ''Two Comrades Were Serving'' | Hon. George d'Alroy | |- | 1968 | ''Karantin'' | Committee-Man | |- | 1970 | ''Waterloo'' | Flahaut | |- | 1970 | ''I, Francisk Skaryna...'' | Ivan Skorina | |- | 1972 | ''Sea on Fire'' |Nikolai Mikhailovich Kulakov | |- | 1973 | ''Land, on Demand'' | Aguirre | |- | 1984 | ''Meeting at the End of Winter'' | Semyon Petrovich | |- | 1984 | ''Time and the Conways'' | Gerald Thornton | |- | 1984 | ''Copper Angel'' | Leo, the carpenter | |- | 1985 | ''Cancan in an English Рark'' |Daniil Robak (Torchinsky) | |- | 1985 | ''Battle of Moscow'' | General Vasily Smirnov | |- | 1986 | ''The Bounce'' |Demin | |- | 1986 | ''Race of the Century'' |Stanley Best | |- | 1986 | ''Don't Forget to Turn Off the TV'' |Mikhail Mikhailovich | |- | 1986 | ''The Dolphin's Cry'' | minister | |- | 1990 | ''Man from the Black Volga'' | Antonov | |- | 1990 | ''Eternal Husband'' |Fedosey Petrovich Zakhlebinin | |- | 1991 | ''Adam's Rib'' | Viktor Vitalievich | |- | 1991 | ''Ghost'' | Konstantin Grigoryevich | |- | 1991 | ''Forgive Us, Stepmother Russia'' | Colonel Steblin | |- | 1992 | ''You Yourself Burn with Mad Рassion for Me'' | Vladimir Frantsevich | |- | 1992 | ''Sunny Day at the End of Summer'' | рrofessor | Short |- | 1993 | ''Anomaly'' | General | |- | 1996 | ''Love in Russian 2'' |Yarosevich | |- | 1997 | ''A Friend of the Deceased'' | Igor Lvovich | |- | 2005 | ''The State Counsellor'' | General Khrapov | |}
==Honours and awards== ;Belarus * ''Order of Francisc Skorina'' (2000) * ''Skorina Medal'' (1995) * ''State Prize of the Republic of Belarus'' (1998) * ''Honorary Citizen of the Hero City of Minsk'' (2000) * ''Award "For Spiritual Revival"'' (2003) * ''Award Theatre Forum "Golden Knight"'' (For outstanding contribution to the performing arts) (2005)
;Soviet Union * ''Order of the Badge of Honour'' (1967) * ''Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"'' (1970) * ''Order of the Red Banner of Labour'' (1971) * ''Order of Friendship of Peoples'' (1991) * ''Honoured Artist of the Byelorussian SSR'' (1963)<ref name="y"/> * ''People's Artist of the Byelorussian SSR'' (1967)<ref name="y"/> * ''People's Artist of the USSR'' (1978)<ref name="y"/>
;Russia * ''Pushkin Medal'' (2007)<ref name="y"/>* ''International Academy of Theatre''
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb name| id = 0946161 | name = Rostislav Yankovsky }}
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