Biography
Leonid I. Gaidai (30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993) was one of the most popular Soviet comedy directors, enjoying immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former USSR and modern Russia. His movies broke theatre attendance records and are still some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia.
Filmography
all 29
Movies 28
Director 24
Writer 1
TV Shows 1
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Как уходили кумиры (2005)
TV
Director
SportLotto - 82 (1982)
Movie
1
Director
For the Matches (1980)
Movie
Director / Writer
Incognito from St.Petersburg (1978)
Movie
Director
It Can't Be! (1975)
Movie
Director
12 Chairs (1971)
Movie
Director
The Diamond Arm (1969)
Movie
Director / Writer
Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (1967)
Movie
Director
Obsession (1965)
Movie
Director
Businessmen (1963)
Movie
1
Director
Kindred Spirits (1962)
Movie
Director
Bootleggers (1962)
Movie
8
Director
Sovershenno seryozno (1961)
Movie
Director
Thrice Resurrected (1960)
Movie
Закревский
The Wind (1959)
Movie
Director
A Weary Road (1956)
Movie
Actor
Lyana (1955)
Movie
Director
Darling Friends
Movie
Information
Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1923-01-30
Deathday1993-11-19 (70 years old)
Birth NameЛеонид Иович Гайдай
Birth PlaceSvobodny, Amurskaya guberniya, RSFSR, USSR
SiblingsAleksandr Gayday
CitizenshipsSoviet Union, Russia
Also Known AsLeonid Gayday , Леонид Гайдай, L. Gaidai, Leonid Iovich Gaidai, Leonid Gaiddai, L. Gaydday
AwardsOrder of the Patriotic War 1st class, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR, Medal for Battle Merit, Medal "For Battle Merit", Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Medal "Veteran of Labour", People's Artist of the USSR, Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", People's Artist of the RSFSR
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