Actor Leons Krivāns has passed away
Riga, November 7, LETA. At the age of 82, Latvian actor Leons Krivāns passed away. His daughter has announced the death of the actor on the social site “Facebook”.
The actor was born on April 17, 1938 in the builder’s family. In 1956 he graduated from Riga 6th Secondary School. During his studies, Krivāns worked in the dramatic ensemble of the builders’ culture house “October”, indicated in the encyclopedia “Theater and Cinema Biographies” in Volume 2.
After graduating from the 3rd studio of Daile Theater, he was a theater actor from 1962 to 1992. Krivāns also played the role of Stukla in Rūdolfs Blaumanis’ “Fire”, successfully performed in the diploma thesis, in the production of Daile Theater in 1963 and 1966.
It is written in the encyclopedia that at the beginning of his career the actor’s boyish directness and enthusiasm dominated his genre-different youth roles, but later Krivāns emphasized the paradoxes of image thinking and situation in his stage expressions, while gaining popularity with comically sharpened characters.
Krivan’s characters in the films have been comical, with a penchant for eccentricity. He has portrayed characters such as Arthur in the 1965 film “Tobago Changes the Course”, Fried in the 1967 film “Captain Enrico’s Clock”, Spulli in the 1973 film “A Gift to a Lonely Woman” and Grigalu in the 1982 film “Tereon’s Head” and other. In the episodic roles, the actors could also be seen in such films as the 1961 “Willows Gray Flowers”, the 1966 “Swamp Wader”, the 1968 film “Surveyors’ Times”, the 1972 film “Vella’s Servants in Vella Mill” and 1982 ” Forgotten things “.
On May 3, 2018, he received the 4th class Cross of Recognition “For the creative contribution of a lifetime to the art of Latvian theater and cinema”.
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