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Valentin Gaft

Acting

1 movie available on YTS

Actor info

  • Name :

    Valentin Gaft

  • Born :

    September 2, 1935 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR (85 years at death)

  • Died :

    December 12, 2020

  • Known for :

    Acting

  • Gender :

    Male

  • Film career :

    132 films (1956–2018)

  • Also known as :

    В. Гафт, V. Gaft

  • Links :

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 -----

Notable films

  • 12 (2007) as juror #4
  • The Master and Margarita (2011) as Woland
  • Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus (2010) as Pimen
  • Magicians (1982) as Apollon Mitrofanovich Sataneev
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1980) as John Jasper

1 YIFY Movies starring Valentin Gaft