Born in Petrograd, RSFSR, USSR. Participant in the Great Patriotic War. Defended Leningrad as part of the 22nd fortified region. In 1952 he graduated from the Leningrad Ostrovsky Theatre Institute (course of L.F. Makaryev). In 1952-1979 - actor of the Leningrad Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theatre. Since 1980 he lived and worked in the USA. Worked at the Circle in a Square Theatre on Broadway. Acted in episodic roles in American films. Member of the Actors Guild of America, was a member of the Oscar nomination committee.
Everything Is Illuminated
(Grandfather)
Vampire's Kiss
(Fantasy Cabbie)
A Very Old Story
World War Three
(Yuri Rubanov)
The Nick Of Time
Cold Souls
(Donor)
First Visitor
(Chinovnik)
Fear and Despair in the Third Empire
(Doctor)
Conscience Doesn't Forgive
The Falcon and the Snowman
(Mikhael)
The Truth! Nothing But the Truth!
You!
Vanya, How are You Here?
31st Dept.
(заведующий типографией)
Dead Souls
(служащий канцелярии)
Tsarevich Prosha
(стражник)
Next to Us
((uncredited))
The Package
(Soviet Foreign Minister)
Two Sundays
Kyukhlya
Rembrandt
(дежурный офицер)
12 Chairs
(аукционист)
The Strogovs
(staff-captain)
The Soul Calls
(Vitya (uncredited))
A Couch in New York
(Cab Driver #1)
Men in Black
(Cook)
Cadillac Man
(Soviet Husband)
The Only One
(visitor (uncredited))
Way Home
(nemets)
The House on Carroll Street
(Hürwitz)
At the Breaking Point
The Property of Republic
(эпизод)
Black and White
Five for Summer
(водитель автобуса)
Unfinished Story
(Malingerer)
The Winter of Our Discontent
(Salesman)
The Republic of ShKID
(Policeman)
Third Watch
(Uri Doleska)
Сержант милиции
(таксист)
Fuse