Valentin Gaft
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1935-09-02 – 2020-12-12
Place of birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
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. ----- Content From 12 Presskit http://www.sonyclassics.com/12/externalLoads/12_presskit.pdf -----
Known for
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2007juror #4
Cement
1974
The Circus Boy
1980
Sky in Diamonds
1999
The Magic Skin
1975
Saturday and Sunday
1982
Three Years
1980Ivan Yartsev
Expensive Pleasure
1988
Футболист
1991
Magicians
1982Apollon Mitrofanovich Sataneev
Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
1980Полковник Покровский
Like Cat and Dog
1973
Promised Heaven
1991President
The Master and Margarita
2011Woland
The Holiday of Disobedience
1977(voice)
Postman's Tale
1978(voice)
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010Pimen
Intervention
1987"Длинный", Каро
Cabbages and Kings
1979Frank Goodwin