"Private Ivan" was followed in 1958 by "Ivan Brovkin on the State Farm" (see critical commentary below). With age, Kharitonov appeared in fewer films; he did not relish playing older men. However, sometimes he does appear in later movies grey and stout. For this reason of gradual absence from movies, in the 1980s Leonid Kharitonov was almost forgotten as a film actor although he continued performing at his native Moscow Art Theatre, as was the case during almost all his acting life. In private life he was said to live modestly. He was married three times, first to Svetlana Kharitonov the character actress of the 1950s and 1960s. He met his second wife, the actress Gemma Osmolovskaya, on the set of "The Street is Full of Surprises", and they had a son Alexei Khartionov who is now a scientist-programmer. His third wife was his student at the Moscow Art Theatre school. In later years Kharitonov was seriously ill. In the summer of 1980, during the Moscow Olympics, he suffered a first stroke. Then, while filming "From the Life of the Chief of Criminal Investigation" on 4 July 1984 this was followed by a second stroke. His health could not bear the news of the crisis of the Moscow Art Theatre in the summer of 1987. On 20 June 1987, the day of its division into two parts which was a very hard and dramatic time for the theatre, Kharitonov died the same day from his third stroke which occurred in the drama theatre. He was buried in Moscow in plot number 50 of Vagankovskoye cemetery. "The following is a selection of Kharitonov's theatrical roles":  "The Forgotten Friend" (1956) – Gosh  "The Pickwick Papers" (1956) – Joe  "The Lower Depths" (1956) – Alyosha  "The Devil's Disciple" (1957) – Christy  "The road through the Sokolniki" (1958) – Aleshka Vronsky – image  "Three Fat Men" (1961) – Dr. Gaspar  "Mutiny" (1977) – Caravan  "So we will win!" (1981) – Fist  "We, the undersigned" – Explorer  "The Village Stepanchikovo" – Evgraf Ezhevikin  "Peace to the huts, war to the palaces"  "Days of the Turbins" – Lariosik  "Goodbye, boys" – Sasha Krieger  "Dead Souls" – Chichikov  "House number 6" "As he left, look" – Fedor  "The following is a selection of his films":  He was a supporting actor in "Vasyok Trubachyov i yego tovarishchi" (1955) and the romance "Otryad Trubachyova srazhayetsya" (1957).