Bohdan Sylvestrovych Stupka (; 27 August 1941 – 22 July 2012) was a popular Ukrainian actor and minister of culture of Ukraine. He was born in Kulykiv, General Government to Ukrainian parents. In 2001, he was a member of the jury at the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival. At the 26th Moscow International Film Festival he won the award for Best Actor for his role in Our Own.
Stupka played in more than a hundred roles in films and over fifty in theaters. Stupka was awarded the titles Artist of Ukraine, People's Artist of the USSR, and Hero of Ukraine.
Bohdan Stupka was buried in Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv.
His son Ostap Stupka is also an actor.
Awards
Kyiv Pectoral Award in the category "Best Male Role", play by Irena Kowal: ("The Lion and the Lioness") (2001) Golden Aries Award in the category "Best Male Role" (Our Own) (2004) Silver George prize of the Moscow International Film Festival "Best Male Role" (Our Own) (2004) Golden Eagle Award in the category "Best Supporting Actor" (A Driver for Vera) (2005) Nika Award in the nomination "Best Male Role" (Our Own) (2005) Golden Eagle Award in the category "Best Male Role in Cinema" (Taras Bulba) (2010) Golden Eagle Award in the category "Best Supporting Actor" (Home) (2012)
Selected filmography
1971: White Bird with Black Mark as Orest
1971: Insight as Yuriy Morozenko
1972: Contrary to Everything as Simeon
1973: The Last Day as Valera
1973: Housewarming as Danko
1975: Waves of the Black Sea as Troyan
1977: The Right for Love as Yakov
1979: Forget the Word "Death"''' as Ivan Ostrovoy
1980: Dudaryky as Leontovich
1980: Otherwise it is Impossible as master Petushkov
1981: From the Bug to the Vistula as conjurer
1982: Red Bells II as Kerensky
1982: Secrets of St. George as Oleksa
1983: Whirlpool as Ioska Vikhor
1984: Everything Starts with Love as Antonyuk
1984: Stolen Happiness as Mikhailo Zadorozhny
1986: Start an Investigation as Stasenko
1987: Daniel, Prince of Galicia as Sudich
1988: Stone Soul as Sergey Muratov
1988: Dress Rehearsal as Vasili Gogol-Yanovsky
1990: Nikolai Vavilov as Trofim Lysenko
1991: Kremlin Secrets of the 16th Century as Boris Godunov
1991: The Sin as Stalynskiy
1992: For Home Fire as Hirsch, police officer
1992: God, Forgive Us Sinners as Tsibukin
1992: Four Sheets of Plywood, or Two Murders in a Bar as police colonel
1992: Taras Shevchenko. Testament as host
1993: The Gray Wolves as Vladimir Semichastny
1993: Fuchzhou as Matvii Kosht
1993: The Road to Paradise as academician Vladimir Naumovich Lerner
1993: Trap (TV Series) as Stalsky
1995: Single Player as Pavel Kondratievich
1995: Gelli and Nok as Gutan
1996: Judenkreis, or Eternal Wheel as Liberzon
1999: With Fire and Sword as Bohdan Chmielnicki
1999: East/West as colonel Boyko
1999: Chinese Service as Lapsin
2002: A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa as Hetman Mazepa
2003: An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God as Popiel
2004: Our Own as Ivan Blinov
2004: A Driver for Vera as general Serov
2005: Stealing Tarantino as Feliks Dobrzhansky
2006: Rabbit Over the Void as Leonid Brezhnev
2007: Two in One as Andrei
2007: Three and Snowflake as Andrew's Father
2007: 18-14 as Vasily Malinovsky
2008: Sappho as professor Orlov
2008: Alexander as prince Yaroslav
2008: Serce na dloni as Konstanty
2009: Taras Bulba as Taras Bulba
2009: Insight as old man
2010: Chantrapas as ambassador Firsov
2010: Ivanov as Pavel Kirillyich Lebedev
2010: Platon Anhel (TV Movie) as Platon Nikitich Anhel
2011: Brothel Lights as Zaslavsky
2011: Home (Russia) as Grigory Ivanovich Shamanov
2011: Rejection as Ivan Pavlovich
2013: Podporuchik Romashov as Shulgovich
2015: 12 Months. New Fairy Tale'' as December (final film role)
Commemoration
Streets in the cities of Vinnytsia, Bucha, Boryspil, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhia, Synelnykove, Tavriisk, Pokrovsk, and Sloviansk are named in his honor.