Yuriy Dmitriyevich Dubrovin (Russian: Юрий Дми́триевич Дубро́вин; 1 August 1939 – 4 December 2022) was a Russian-Ukrainian actor. Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (2007).
Among roles he played was La Chenet in D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers. He also appeared in Trial on the Road, and The Prisoner of Château d'If.
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Career
He debuted in 1959. Since 1963 he worked at Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. He acted in almost 140 films. He moved to Germany to his son's family in 2014. In 2016 he appeared in short film by his grandson, Ivan.
He was described as a "king of episodes" in cinema, having played episodic roles in dozens of marquee films.
Selected filmography
Seven Winds (1962) as Senechka
A Span of Earth (1964) as battalion orderly
The Alive and the Dead (1964) as Zolotaryov
We, the Russian People (1965) as Vyatskiy
No Password Necessary (1967) as police officer
At War as at War (1968) as soldier Gromykhalo
Sergey Lazo (1968) as Korolyov
Liberation (1970) as messenger man
Dauria (1971) as Kuzma
How the Steel Was Tempered (1968) as Tonya Tumanova's father
Love at First Sight (1977) as gardener
Widows (1978) as investigator
Twenty Days Without War (1978) as Yolkin
Lone Wolf (1978) as first man
D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) as La Chenet
Who will pay for Luck? (1980) as Paramonov
Love by Request (1983) as Petrushin
Wartime Romance (1983) as Terekhin
Trial on the Road (1985) as Gennady Bolshakov
Lilac Ball (1987) as episode
The Prisoner of Château d'If (1987) as Baptiste, Count of Monte Cristo's servant
Criminal Talent (1988) as educator Snegirev
Musketeers Twenty Years After (1992) as La Chenet
The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After (1993) as La Chenet
Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (1994) as Volkov
The Outskirts (1998) as Philip Ilyich Safronov
Yesenin (2005) as Sergey Yesenin's grandfather