Valentin Gaft
Acting
Born: 1935-09-02 in 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
Fuse
The Master and Margarita
Caiaphas / Lavrentiy Beria
The Life of Klim Samgin
Trifonov
Visit to the Minotaur
Pavel Petrovich Ikonnikov
The Holiday of Disobedience
(voice)
Encore, Once More Encore!
Fyodor Vasilyevich Vinogradov
10 самых...
Self (archive footage)
Year of a Calf
Valerian Sergeyevich
Ночные забавы
Езепов
Magicians
Сатанеев
Old Hags
General
About the Cat...
Intervention
"Длинный", Каро
The Master and Margarita
Woland
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
John Jasper
Бесприданница
Сергей Сергеевич Паратов
Nine Unknowns
Viktor Sevidov - britanskiy millioner
12
juror #4
Islands in the Stream
The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (Once in Odessa)
Lost in Siberia
Beria
The Star Hour
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Pimen
Koroli i kapusta
Frank Goodwin
Мастер и Маргарита
Воланд
Forgotten Tune for the Flute
Odinkov
Morpekhi
Hello, I'm Your Aunt!
Brasset, Lackey
The Suicide
конферансье
Olga Sergeevna
Троянкин
The Amazing Boy
Doctor Kapa
Moscow, My Love
choreographer
On the Other Side of the Wolves
The Garage
Сидорин, председатель гаражного кооператива, ветврач
Olga Sergeevna
Troyakin
Wings
Byvaly (Voice)
Three Years
Ivan Yartsev
