Valentin Nikulin


Valentin Yuryevich Nikulin was a Soviet, Russian and Israeli theater and film actor.
Nikulin was born in the family of the playwright Yuri Nikulin and pianist Eugeniya Brooke ; nephew of the writer Lev Nikulin and actors Konstantin Shayne and Tamara Shayne, and a grandson of impresario Veniamin Nikulin.
Nikulin graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in law in 1957 and from the School-Studio at the Moscow Art Theatre. From 1960-90, and from 1999 until his death, he was an actor at the Sovremennik Theatre. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than hundred roles.

Filmography

  • Nine Days in One Year as young physicist
  • The Road to Berth as Marat Lepin
  • The Big Ore as Vladimir
  • Adventures of a Dentist as patient
  • Three Fat Men as Dr. Haspar Arnery
  • The Mysterious Wall as Canadian traveler
  • The Brothers Karamazov as Smerdyakov
  • Day by Day as Dima
  • Failure of Engineer Garin as Portier
  • The Little Mermaid as Sulpitius / Hans Christian Andersen
  • The Nose as janitor
  • Kind Men as Orest Ivanovich Muzhesky
  • Behind the Blue Nights as Kirill Averichev
  • Visit to Minotaur as Andrea Guarneri
  • Entrance to the Labyrinth as Fiscal
  • Stalin's Funeral as neighbor
  • Coffee with Lemon as pianist
  • The Master and Margarita as episode
  • Yana's Friends as neighbour