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Valentin Gaft

Actor, Writer
Born September 2, 1935Died December 12, 2020 (85 years)
Valentin Yosifovich Gaft was born on September 2, 1935 to Ukrainian parents recently relocated to Moscow. Gaft entered the Moscow Theater School in 1953 at age 18 and made his film debut three years later in Mikhail Romm’s “Murder on Dante Street”. Over a half century of performing Valentine Gaft has been associated with the Mossovet and Leninsky Komsomol Theater troupes and the Sovremennik Theater which Gaft joined in 1969 and where he continues to work to this day. Gaft was named a People’s Artist of the Soviet Union in 1984 and has authored series of highly acidic epigrams satirizing members of the Russian film and theater communities.

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Known For
  • 12
  • The Garage
  • Magicians
  • Yolki 3
  • The Master and Margarita
  • The Promised Heaven
  • Encore, Once More Encore!
  • Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
  • Master i Margarita
  • Forgotten Tune for the Flute
  • Sympathy Seeker
  • Hello, I'm Your Aunt!
  • Wings
  • Pup in Boots
  • Vory v zakone
  • Kniga masterov
  • The Gentle Age
  • Starye klyachi
  • Vizit damy
  • Night Fun
  • Lost in Siberia
  • Gonki po vertikali
  • Koroli i kapusta
  • Daylight Train

Filmography

2016
2016
Mlechnyy put · as Cast
2015
2014
2013
2013
2013
Iron Mountain · as Preobrazhensky
2013
2012
Wings · as Byvaly (voice)
2011
The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (TV Series) · as Mendel Gersh
2011
Utomlennye solntsem 2 (TV Series) · as Zzk Pimen
2011
2011
Morpekhi (TV Series)
2011
2010
Burnt by the Sun 2 · as Wise Prisoner
2010
2009
Kniga masterov · as Volshebnoe Zerkalo
2009
Osennie Tsvety (TV Series) · as Cast
2009
Leningrad · as Rezhisser
2007
12 · as Juror #4
2007
Karnavalnaya noch 2, ili 50 let spustya · as Политтехнолог Борис Глебович
2006
Master i Margarita · as Woland
2006
Devyat Neizvestnykh (TV Series) · as Viktor Sevidov - Britanskiy Millioner
2005
The Master and Margarita (TV Series) · as Иосиф Каифа, Человек Во Френче
2003
Snezhnaya lyubov, ili Son v zimnyuyu noch · as Олег Константинович Папа Ксении
2002
Beyond the wolves (TV Series) · as The Doctor
2001
2000
The Gentle Age · as Саледон Старший (известный Скульптор-Диссидент)
2000
Starye klyachi · as General
1999
1997
Sympathy Seeker · as Magician
1992
Encore, Once More Encore! · as Fyodor Vasilyevich Vinogradov
1991
The Promised Heaven · as President
1991
Lost in Siberia · as Beria
1991
Night Fun · as Езепов
1989
1989
Vizit damy · as Alfred Iii
1989
1988
1988
Vory v zakone · as Artur
1988
Life Of Klim Samgin (TV Series) · as Trifonov
1987
1987
Visiting the Minotaur · as Иконников
1987
Visit to the Minotaur (TV Series) · as Pavel Petrovich Ikonnikov
1987
1987
1986
God telyonka · as Valerian Sergeyevich
1986
Moy nezhno lyubimyy detektiv · as Inspector Lester
1986
Fuete · as Poet
1986
1985
1983
1983
1982
Magicians · as Apollon Mitrofanovich Sataneev
1982
Tamozhnya · as Владимир Николаевич Никитин
1982
Gonki po vertikali · as Алексей Дедушкин «батон» (вор-Рецидивист)
1982
Aesop · as Agnostos
1981
Pup in Boots · as The Noble (voice) / Благородный (атос)
1981
1981
Say a Word for the Poor Hussar · as Полковник Покровский
1980
Utrenniy obkhod · as Alik
1980
The Garage · as Sidorin
1979
Kentavry · as Andres
1978
1977
1977
1976
1975
Hello, I'm Your Aunt! · as Brasset, Lackey
1975
Ivan da Mariya · as Казначей
1975
1975
For the rest of my life (TV Series) · as Kramin (1975)
1974
Tanya · as German
1974
Eralash (TV Series) · as Mag (segment "tyomnaya Magiya")
1974
Moscow, My Love · as Choreographer
1973
Seventeen Moments of Spring (TV Series) · as Gaevernitz
1972
Razreshite vzlyot! · as Viktor Azancheyev
1972
Chelovek s drugoy storony · as Andrey Izvolskiy
1971
1971
A Ballad of Love · as Nikolai
1970
Koroli i kapusta · as Frank Goodwin
1970
1969
1968
Interventsiya · as Солдат Антанты
1960
Russkiy suvenir · as Claude Gerald
1960
1958
1956
Ubiystvo na ulitse Dante · as Marsel Ruzhe

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