Roman Kartsev


Roman Andreyevich Kartsev was a Russian entertainer of stage, theater and cinema.
He was Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Actor of the Moscow Theater of Miniatures under the leadership of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. For several decades he performed in a duet with .

Biography

Roman Kartsev was born in Odessa to Sura-Lea Ruvinovna Fuksman and Antshel Zelmanovich Katz. The maternal grandfather, after whom the artist was named, was a synagogue cantor. The spoken language in the family was Yiddish. Before the war, Roman lived with his parents in Tiraspol, where in 1939–1941 his father was a striker for the Tiraspol team in the second league of the USSR Football Championship. During the Great Patriotic War, together with his mother and brother was in evacuation in Omsk; the grandparents who remained in Odessa died. After the demobilization of the father in 1946, the whole family returned to Odessa.
In the early 1960s he became friends with Mikhail Zhvanetsky and Viktor Ilchenko, founders of the Parnas-2 amateur theatre in Odessa, who invited him to join the troupe.

Filmography