Valentin Gaft

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-09-02 (85 years old)

Deathday

2020-12-12

Place of Birth

Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Valentin Gaft

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. --...

Acting

2007

12

as Juror #4

1974

1982

Magicians

as Apollon Mitrofanovich Sataneev

1980

Say a Word for the Poor Hussar

as Полковник Покровский

1991

Promised Heaven

as President

1978

Postman's Tale

as (voice)

2010

1968

Intervention

as Entente Soldier

1979

Cabbages and Kings

as Frank Goodwin

1986

Year of a Calf

as Valerian Sergeyevich

1971

The Amazing Boy

as Doctor Kapa

1979

The Garage

as Сидорин, председатель гаражного кооператива, ветврач

2000

Old Hags

as General

1970

1981

Esop

as Agnostos

1991

Night Fun

as Езепов

1989

The Visit

as Alfred III

1988

2007

Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later

as политтехнолог Борис Глебович

1997

Sympathy Seeker

as Magician

1991

1984

Eight Days of Hope

as Игорь Белоконь, директор шахты

2012

Wings

as Byvaly (Voice)

1987

Forgotten Tune for the Flute

as Одинков, чиновник

1992

Encore, Once More Encore!

as Fyodor Vasilyevich Vinogradov

2000

Tender Age

as Саледон старший (известный скульптор-диссидент)

1982

Vertical Races

as Алексей Дедушкин, «Батон», вор-рецидивист

2009

The Book of Masters

as Magic mirror

1975

Ivan and Marya

as казначей

1975

Hello, I'm Your Aunt!

as Brasset, Lackey

1987

Visiting the Minotaur

as Иконников

1974

Lot

as Innokentiy Zhiltsov

1980

Today and Tomorrow

as Александр Григорьевич Рассолов

1975

Olga Sergeevna

as Troyakin

2003

1986

My Dearly Beloved Detective

as Inspector Lester

1979

The Centaurs

as Andres

1967

1981

The Dog in Boots

as The Noble (voice) / Благородный (Атос)

1974

Moscow, My Love

as choreographer

1960

1971

Allow Take-Off!

as Viktor Azancheyev

1956

Murder on Dante Street

as Marsel Ruzhe

2013

Iron Mountain

as Preobrazhensky

1974

Сергеев ищет Сергеева

as Anatoliy Anatolyevich Petelin

1957

1990

The Suicide

as конферансье

1970

1982

Customs

as Владимир Николаевич Никитин

1986

Fouetté

as Poet

1968

The First Courier

as Nikolay Fon Getsberg

2018

The Chosen Ones

as himself

1987

Time to Fly

as Виктор Иванович, саксофонист, пассажир

1974

Girl Without Dowry

as Сергей Сергеевич Паратов

1972

The Man from the Other Side

as Andrey Izvolskiy

1974

Tanya

as German

1980

1983

Romeo and Juliet

as Капулетти

1971

1960

Russian Souvenir

as Claude Gerald

2000

House for the Rich

as Roman Rumyanov

1970

2009

The Music of Life

as Self (archive footage)

1987

The Magic Bells

as The King (voice)

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