
Known for
Acting
Born
October 24, 1911
Birthplace
Riga - Latvia - USSR
Died
December 17, 1987 (aged 76)
Arkady Isaakovich Raikin (Russian: Аркадий Исаакович Райкин; 24 October [O.S. 11 October] 1911 – 17 December 1987) was a Soviet stand-up comedian, theater and film actor, and stage director. He led the school of Soviet and Russian humorists for about half a century. Raikin was born into a Jewish family in Riga, in the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire (present-day Latvia). He graduated from the Leningrad Theatrical Technicum in 1935 and worked in both state theatres and variety shows. In 1939, he founded his own theatre in Leningrad, where he used skits and impersonations to ridicule the inefficiency of Communist bureaucracy and the Soviet way of life. In the Stalinist police sta...
2020
as Self (archive footage)
2016
1987
1985
as Narrator (voice)
1983
as himself
1981
1976
1975
as Self
1974
as Василий Васильевич / Ошлепкин (4 episodes), Screenstory, Director, Screenplay, Creator
1970
1970
as художник Репкин/директор пуговичной фабрики Кругозоров/директор швейной фабрики Слоновников/пожарный Набатов
1967
as Self
1967
as zoo visitor
1967
1966
1965
1965
as pantomime "Fishing"
1965
1962
1960
Screenplay
1957
as (voice)
1954
1942
as Projectionist / Host
1941
as American journalist
1939