Leonid Gaidai
Directing · Director · Writer · Screenplay
Born Jan 30, 1923 · Svobodny, Amurskaya guberniya, RSFSR, USSR
Active 1954–1993 · Awards: People's Artist of the USSR, Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, Medal "For Battle Merit", Medal "Veteran of Labour", Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Leonid Iovich Gaidai (Russian: Леони́д Ио́вич Гайда́й; 30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993; Svobodny) was a Soviet comedy film director, screenwriter and actor who enjoyed immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former Soviet…
Filmography
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession (1973) — Director · ScreenplayOperation Y and Other Shurik's Adventures (1965) — (segment "Workmate") (uncredited) · Director · WriterThe Diamond Arm (1969) — drunkard (uncredited) · Director · WriterKidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967) — Director · Writer12 Chairs (1971) — Varfolomey Korobeinikov (uncredited) · Director · WriterBootleggers (1962) — Director · ScreenplayDog Barbos and Unusual Cross (1961) — Director · ScreenplayIt Can't Be! (1975) — Director · ScreenplaySportLotto - 82 (1982) — Director · WriterStrictly Business (1963) — Director · WriterObsession (1965) — Director · WriterThere's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach (1993) — Crazy casino player (uncredited) · Director · WriterFor the Matches (1980) — Director · ScreenplayDangerous for Your Life! (1985) — Director · WriterSovershenno seryozno (1961) — Director · ScreenplayFuse (1962) — DirectorA Groom from the Right Society (1958) — DirectorChest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street... (1978) — ProducerIncognito from St.Petersburg (1978) — Director · ScreenplayPrivate Detective, or Operation Cooperation (1989) — Director · WriterThe Wind (1959) — ЗакревскийLyana (1955) — AlyoshaNothing Ventured, Nothing Gained (1977)A Weary Road (1956) — Director