Archil Gomiashvili
Actor
Born Mar 23, 1926
Active 1958–2005 · Awards: People's artist of the Georgian SSR, National artist of the Abkhaz ASSR
Archil Mikhaylovich Gomiashvili was a Soviet Georgian theatre and film actor best known for his part of Ostap Bender in Leonid Gaidai's 1971 adaptation of Ilf and Petrov's The Twelve Chairs.
Filmography
12 Chairs (1971) - Ostap BenderMimino (1977) - Nugzar Papishvili - the father of VarlaamEarly, Early Morning... (1983) - Гордей ЛукичState Border: Vol. 5. Year Forty-One (1986)Golden Fleece (1983) - YakovCaucasian Story (1977) - казак ЕрошкаMole (1962)Stalingrad: Film 1 (1990) - Joseph Vissarionovich StalinThe Twenty Six Comissars (1966)With No Expiration Date (1987) - ведущий конкурсаWar in the Western Direction (1990) - StalinExplosion After Midnight (1969)Excuse Me! You Are About to Die (1966)A Comedy of Days Gone By (1980) - Ostap BenderYou Can't See What You Have Seen (1965) - KostayaA Waiter With a Tray of Gold (1992)An Extraordinary Assignment (1966)The Cossacks (1961)Copper Angel (1984) - Антонио ВальдесThese Incredible Musicians, or Shurik's New Dreams (1977)My Love, My Sorrow (1978) - AshrafKiller's Seat is Vacant (1991)Personally Known (1958)My Favorite Clown (1987) - Pasha Fokin