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 -----

Filmography

• 2017The Scoundrel
• 2016Milky Way
• 2016Четвертый
• 2014Breaking The Vicious Circle
• 2014The Story of an Old Woman
• 2013Fiery River
• 2013Iron Mountain — Preobrazhensky
• 2013Six Degrees of Celebration 3
• 2012Wings — Byvaly (Voice)
• Morpekhi
• 2011One Day of Zhora Vladimov
• The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (Once in Odessa)
• 2011The Master and Margarita — Woland
• 2010Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus — Pimen
• 2010Сон Гафта, пересказанный Виктюком — Screenplay
• 2009The Book of Masters — Magic mirror
• 2008New Adventures of Babka Ezhka
• 200712 — juror #4
• 2007Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later — политтехнолог Борис Глебович
• 2007The Husband, the Wife and the Lover
• Nine Unknowns — Viktor Sevidov - britanskiy millioner
• Мастер и Маргарита — Воланд
• The Master and Margarita — Caiaphas / Lavrentiy Beria
• 2003Snow Love, or A Dream on a Winter Night — Oleh Kostiantynovych
• On the Other Side of the Wolves
• 2001Сыщик с плохим характером
• 2000House for the Rich — Roman Rumyanov
• 2000Old Hags — General
• 2000Tender Age — Саледон старший (известный скульптор-диссидент)
• 2000Watch Without Hands
• 1999Sky in Diamonds
• 1997Sympathy Seeker — Magician
• 1996The Career of Arturo Ui
• 1994I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody
• 1993I want to go to America
• Ночные забавы — Езепов
• 1992Encore, Once More Encore! — Fyodor Vasilyevich Vinogradov
• 1992Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — Джордж
• 1991Lost in Siberia — Beria
• 1991Night Fun — Езепов
• 1991Promised Heaven — President
• 1991The Footballer
• 1991The Terrorist
• 1990Mister Perrichon's Trip
• 1990The Suicide — конферансье
• 1989The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin — Beriya
• 1989The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants
• 1989The Visit — Alfred III
• 1988Aelita, Do Not Pester Men
• 1988Expensive Pleasure
• 1988Kings of Crime — Artur
• The Life of Klim Samgin — Trifonov
• 1987About the Cat...
• 1987Forgotten Tune for the Flute — Odinkov
• 1987The Magic Bells — The King (voice)
• 1987Time to Fly — Виктор Иванович, саксофонист, пассажир
• Visit to the Minotaur — Pavel Petrovich Ikonnikov
• 1987Visiting the Minotaur — Иконников
• 1986Fouetté — Poet
• 1986My Dearly Beloved Detective — Inspector Lester
• 1986Through Main Street with an Orchestra — Kostya
• 1986Year of a Calf — Valerian Sergeyevich
• 1985Contract of the Century
• 1985Eight Days of Hope — Игорь Белоконь, директор шахты
• 1985Run — Яков Борисович Левин, капитан
• 1984Monsieur Lenoir, Who... — Borescou
• 1983If the Enemy Doesn't Surrender...
• 1983Romeo and Juliet — Капулетти
• 1982Customs — Владимир Николаевич Никитин
• 1982Magicians — Apollon Mitrofanovich Sataneev
• Magicians — Сатанеев
• 1982Saturday and Sunday
• 1982Vertical Races — Алексей Дедушкин, «Батон», вор-рецидивист
• 1981Esop — Agnostos
• 1981The Black Hen, or Living Underground — Deforge
• 1981The Dog in Boots — The Noble (voice) / Благородный (Атос)
• 1980Hurry to Do Good
• 1980Say a Word for the Poor Hussar — Полковник Покровский
• 1980The Circus Boy
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood — John Jasper
• 1980Three Years — Ivan Yartsev
• 1980Today and Tomorrow — Александр Григорьевич Рассолов
• 1979Cabbages and Kings — Frank Goodwin
• Koroli i kapusta — Frank Goodwin
• 1979The Centaurs — Andres
• 1979The Garage — Сидорин, председатель гаражного кооператива, ветврач
• 1979The Morning Round — Alik
• 1979The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut — Тенвиль
• 1978Fight in a Blizzard
• Islands in the Stream
• 1978Players
• 1978Postman's Tale — (voice)
• 1977An Almost Funny Story
• 1977Do You Want to Be an Actress, Girl?
• 1977Temptation
• 1977The Golden Fleece
• 1977The Holiday of Disobedience — (voice)
• 1976Daylight Train
• 1976Story of an Unknown Actor
• For the Rest of My Life — Kramin
• 1975From Lopatin's Notes
• 1975Hello, I'm Your Aunt! — Brasset, Lackey
• 1975Ivan and Marya — казначей, Lyricist
• 1975Olga Sergeevna — Troyakin
• Olga Sergeevna — Троянкин
• 1975The Magic Skin
• 1975Widower's Houses
• 1974Cement
• Dombey & Son
• 1974Girl Without Dowry — Сергей Сергеевич Паратов
• 1974Long-Haired Wonder
• 1974Lot — Innokentiy Zhiltsov
• 1974Moscow, My Love — choreographer
• 1974Sergeev Seeking Sergeev — Anatoliy Anatolyevich Petelin
• 1974Tanya — German
• Бесприданница — Сергей Сергеевич Паратов
• 1973Balalaykin and K
• 1973Like Cat and Dog
• 1973Some Words in Honour of Mr. De Molière
• 1973The Star Hour
• 1972The Man from the Other Side — Andrey Izvolskiy
• 1972The Night at 14th Parallel
• 1972The Pickwick Papers
• 1971Allow Take-Off! — Viktor Azancheyev
• 1971The Amazing Boy — Doctor Kapa
• 1971The Road to Rübezahl — Apanasenko
• 1970A Ballad of Love — Nikolai
• 1970An Ordinary History — Surkov
• 1970Family Happiness
• 1970Solo
• 1969New Girl
• 1969Wait For Me, Anna
• 1968Intervention — "Длинный", Каро
• 1968The First Courier — Nikolay Fon Getsberg
• 1968Калиф-аист
• 1967Mitya
• 1966We, The Russian People — Boer
• Fuse
• 1962Подводная лодка
• 1960Normandy - Neman — Mille
• 1960Russian Souvenir — Claude Gerald
• 1958Aleksa Dundic
• 1956Murder on Dante Street — Marsel Ruzhe
• 1956Poet

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2018The Chosen Ones — himself
• 10 самых... — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Галина Волчек. Любовь и заблуждения — Self
• 2010Равняется одному Гафту — Self
• 2009The Music of Life — Self (archive footage)