Talgat Nigmatulin

Talgat Kadyrovich Nigmatulin was a famous Soviet actor and martial artist. Nigmatullin was born on October 5, 1949, in a Tatar-Uzbek family in Kirgizia. He took part in many action movies. Perhaps his most famous movie was Pirates of the 20th Century. He also appeared in other films as shown below.

Selected filmography

1969 — Her Name is Spring as Pulat Sadykov
1971 — The Night At the 14th Parallel as Sitong
1972 — The Seventh Bullet as Ismail
1977 — Armed and Dangerous as Joyce
1979 — Pirates of the 20th Century as Salikh
1981 — The Right to Shoot as captain of the schooner Kiyoshi
1981 — The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as Injun Joe
1983 — The Wolf Pit as Samat Kasimov
1984 — Lonely and Unarmed as Khan
1985 — Confrontation as Urazbaev, a police captain in Kokand

Death

Nigmatulin became a follower of Abai Borubayev, a teacher from Central Asia who had found favour with Moscow art circles, and was murdered in 1985 by other followers of Borubayev, in the latter's presence.