Valentin Gaft
Actor
Biography
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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Filmography
The Garage
as Сидорин, председатель гаражного кооператива, ветврач 1979
Six Degrees of Celebration 3
2013
Magicians
as Apollon Mitrofanovich Sataneev 1982
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
as Pimen 2010
Hello, I'm Your Aunt!
as Brasset, Lackey 1975
The Book of Masters
as Magic mirror 2009
The Dog in Boots
as The Noble (voice) / Благородный (Атос) 1981
Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
as Полковник Покровский 1980
The Master and Margarita
as Woland 2006
Wings
as Byvaly (Voice) 2012
Promised Heaven
as President 1991
Intervention
as Entente Soldier 1987
Forgotten Tune for the Flute
as Одинков, чиновник 1987
Night Fun
as Езепов 1991
Sympathy Seeker
as Magician 1997
Lost in Siberia
as Beria 1991