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Leonid Gaidai (1923–1993)

Director | Writer | Actor

Leonid Iovich Gaidai was born on January 30, 1923, in the town of Svobodny, Amur region of Siberia, USSR. He was the third child in the family of a railroad worker. His father, named Iov Isidorovich Gaidai, was exiled to Siberia from Poltava, Ukraine. His mother, named Maria Ivanovna Lubimova, came from the Russian city of Ryazan... See full bio »

Born:

Leonid Iovich Gaidai
in Svobodny, Amur Governorate, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Amur Oblast, Russia]

Died:

(age 70) in Moscow, Russia

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1992 Na Deribasovskoy khoroshaya pogoda, ili na Brayton Bich opyat idut dozhdi
 
1990 Chastnyy detektiv, ili operatsiya 'Kooperatsiya'
 
1985 Opasno dlya zhizni!
 
1983 Sportloto-82
 
1980 Borrowing Matchsticks
 
1978 Po ulitsam komod vodili...
 
1977 Inkognito iz Peterburga
 
1976 Ne mozhet byt!
 
1973 Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future
 
1973 Die Flucht
 
1971 Twelve Chairs
 
1969 The Diamond Arm
 
1967 Kidnapping, Caucasian Style
 
1965 Operation Y & Other Shurik's Adventures
 
1965 Obsession (short)
 
1962 Delovye lyudi
 
1961 Pyos Barbos i neobychnyj kross (short)
 
1961 Medor, le chien qui rapporte bien (short)
 
1961 Samogonshchiki (short)
 
1961 Sovershenno seryozno (segment "Pyos Barbos i neobychajnij kross")
 
1960 Trizhdy voskresshiy
 
1958 Zhenikh s togo sveta
 
1957 Dolgiy put
 
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1992 Na Deribasovskoy khoroshaya pogoda, ili na Brayton Bich opyat idut dozhdi
Crazy man in casino (uncredited)
 
1971 Twelve Chairs
Varfolomey Korobeynikov
 
1958 Veter
 
1955 Lyana
 
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2009 No Love in the City ("Razgovor so schastem")
 
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1978 Po ulitsam komod vodili... (artistic supervisor)
 
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1973 Gift for the Single Woman (story artistic supervisor)
 
1955 Lyana (assistant director)
 
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6' (1.83 m)
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Aquarius