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Valentin Gaft

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. ----- Content From 12 Presskit http://www.sonyclassics.com/12/externalLoads/12_presskit.pdf -----

Known For: Acting

Born: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia], 1935-09-02

Died: 2020-12-12

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Murder on Dante Street	Marsel Ruzhe	50
2	1957	Poet		58
3	1958	Aleksa Dundic		49
4	1960	Normandy - Neman	Mille	49
5	1960	Russkiy Suvenir	Claude Gerald	32
6	1962	Подводная лодка		0
7	1966	We Are Russian People	Boer	60
8	1967	Mitya		80
9	1968	Калиф-аист		0
10	1968	The First Courier	Nikolay Fon Getsberg	0
11	1968	Intervention	солдат антанты	53
12	1969	New Girl		73
13	1969	Wait For Me, Anna		60
14	1970	A Ballad of Love	Nikolai	69
15	1970	Family Happiness		47
16	1970	The Amazing Boy	Doctor Kapa	0
17	1970	Solo		0
18	1970	An Ordinary History	Surkov	43
19	1971	The Road to Rübezahl	Apanasenko	0
20	1971	Allow Take-Off!	Viktor Azancheyev	70
21	1972	Записки Пиквикского клуба		0
22	1972	The Night at 14th Parallel		55
23	1972	The Man from the Other Side	Andrey Izvolskiy	0
24	1973	Как кошка с собакой		0
25	1973	Some Words in Honour of Mr. De Molière		70
26	1973	Balalaykin and K		50
27	1974	Сергеев ищет Сергеева	Anatoliy Anatolyevich Petelin	85
28	1974	Long-Haired Wonder		60
29	1974	Lot	Innokentiy Zhiltsov	70
30	1974	Dombey & Son		0
31	1974	Moscow, My Love	choreographer	51
32	1974	Cement		0
33	1974	Tanya	German	0
34	1974	Girl Without Dowry	Сергей Сергеевич Паратов	0
35	1975	From Lopatin's Notes		0
36	1975	На всю оставшуюся жизнь		52
37	1975	Ivan and Marya	казначей	68
38	1975	The Magic Skin		0
39	1975	Olga Sergeevna	Troyakin	40
40	1975	Widower's Houses		0
41	1975	Hello, I'm Your Aunt!	Brasset, Lackey	71
42	1976	Story of an Unknown Actor		60
43	1976	Daylight Train		59
44	1977	Fight in a Blizzard		0
45	1977	Temptation		0
46	1977	The Holiday of Disobedience	(voice)	0
47	1977	The Golden Fleece		35
48	1977	Do You Want to Be an Actress, Girl?		85
49	1977	An Almost Funny Story		39
50	1978	Postman's Tale	(voice)	0
51	1978	Players		0
52	1978	Islands in the Stream		0
53	1979	The Centaurs	Andres	27
54	1979	Cabbages and Kings	Frank Goodwin	43
55	1979	The Garage	Сидорин, председатель гаражного кооператива, ветврач	73
56	1979	The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut	Тенвиль	0
57	1980	The Circus Boy		0
58	1980	Three Years		10
59	1980	Say a Word for the Poor Hussar	Полковник Покровский	68
60	1980	Hurry to Do Good		52
61	1980	Today and Tomorrow	Александр Григорьевич Рассолов	0
62	1980	The Morning Round	Alik	90
63	1980	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	Джаспер	0
64	1981	Esop	Agnostos	52
65	1981	The Black Hen, or Living Underground	Deforge	42
66	1981	The Dog in Boots	The Noble (voice) / Благородный (Атос)	70
67	1982	Saturday and Sunday		0
68	1982	Vertical Races	Алексей Дедушкин, «Батон», вор-рецидивист	60
69	1982	Customs	Владимир Николаевич Никитин	30
70	1982	If the Enemy Doesn't Surrender...		53
71	1982	Magicians	Apollon Mitrofanovich Sataneev	70
72	1983	Monsieur Lenoir, who...		0
73	1983	Romeo and Juliet	Капулетти	0
74	1984	Eight Days of Hope	Игорь Белоконь, директор шахты	0
75	1985	Contract of the Century		30
76	1986	Through Main Street with an Orchestra	Kostya	64
77	1986	Fouetté	Poet	80
78	1986	My Dearly Beloved Detective	Inspector Lester	34
79	1986	Year of a Calf	Valerian Sergeyevich	40
80	1987	Time to Fly	Виктор Иванович, саксофонист, пассажир	10
81	1987	About the Cat...		58
82	1987	The Magic Bells	The King (voice)	0
83	1987	Forgotten Tune for the Flute	Одинков, чиновник	64
84	1987	Visiting the Minotaur	Иконников	63
85	1988	Aelita, Do Not Pester Men		30
86	1988	Kings of Crime	Artur	38
87	1988	Rich Pleasure		0
88	1989	The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants		0
89	1989	The Visit	Alfred III	56
90	1989	The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin	Beriya	36
91	1990	The Suicide	конферансье	60
92	1990	Mister Perrichon's Trip		60
93	1991	Night Fun	Езепов	62
94	1991	Promised Heaven	President	54
95	1991	Lost in Siberia	Beria	49
96	1991	Футболист		0
97	1991	The Terrorist		30
98	1992	Encore, Once More Encore!	Fyodor Vasilyevich Vinogradov	57
99	1993	I want to go to America		50
100	1994	The Master and Margarita	Woland	57
101	1994	I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody		36
102	1996	The Career of Arturo Ui		0
103	1997	Sympathy Seeker	Magician	52
104	1999	Небо в алмазах		0
105	2000	Old Hags	General	47
106	2000	Tender Age	Саледон старший (известный скульптор-диссидент)	56
107	2000	House for the Rich	Roman Rumyanov	40
108	2000	Watch Without Hands		40
109	2003	Snow Love, or A Dream on a Winter Night	Oleh Kostiantynovych	10
110	2007	Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later	политтехнолог Борис Глебович	20
111	2007	The Husband, the Wife and the Lover		0
112	2007	12	Juror #4	66
113	2008	New Adventures of Babka Ezhka		50
114	2009	The Book of Masters	Magic mirror	44
115	2009	The Music of Life	Self (archive footage)	0
116	2010	Сон Гафта, пересказанный Виктюком		0
117	2010	Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus	Wise prisoner	48
118	2010	Равняется одному Гафту	Self	0
119	2011	One Day of Zhora Vladimov		0
120	2012	Wings	Byvaly (Voice)	38
121	2013	The Story of an Old Woman		0
122	2013	Fiery River		0
123	2013	Iron Mountain	Preobrazhensky	100
124	2013	Six Degrees of Celebration 3		63
125	2014	Breaking The Vicious Circle		0
126	2016	Milky Way		60
127	2017	Подлец		100
128	2018	The Chosen Ones	himself	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	Fuse		76
2	1975	Olga Sergeevna	Троянкин	0
3	1979	Koroli i kapusta	Frank Goodwin	0
4	1982	Чародеи	Аполлон Митрофанович Сатанеев, заместитель директора НУИНУ по административно-хозяйственной части	0
5	1987	Visit to the Minotaur	Pavel Petrovich Ikonnikov	55
6	1988	The Life of Klim Samgin	Trifonov	63
7	1993	Ночные забавы	Езепов	0
8	2002	On the Other Side of the Wolves		0
9	2005	The Master and Margarita	Иосиф Каифа, человек во френче	73
10	2006	Nine Unknowns	Viktor Sevidov - britanskiy millioner	65
11	2006	Мастер и Маргарита		0
12	2008	12		20
13	2011	Morpekhi		0
14	2011	The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (Once in Odessa)		87