Roman Andreyevich Kartsev (Russian: Рома́н Андре́евич Ка́рцев, born Roman Antshelevich Katz (Russian: Рома́н А́ншелевич Кац);[1][2] 20 May 1939 – 2 October 2018) was a Russian entertainer of stage, theater and cinema.

Roman Kartsev
Roman Kartsev in 2011
Born	Roman Antshelevich Katz (1939-05-20)20 May 1939 Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	2 October 2018(2018-10-02) (aged 79) Moscow, Russia
Occupation	Actor, humorist
Years active	1960–2018
Spouse	Viktoria Kassinskaya
Awards	People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1999)

He was Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1990),[2][3] People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1999).[2][4] Actor of the Moscow Theater of Miniatures under the leadership of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. For several decades he performed in a duet with Viktor Ilchenko (Kartsev and Ilchenko).[5]

Roman Kartsev was born in Odessa to Sura-Lea (in life as Sonia) 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.

Filmography

• 1967 – Arkady Raikin (documentary) as cameo
• 1975 – Waves of the Black Sea as entrepreneur
• 1977 – The Magic Voice of Gelsomino as School Teacher
• 1979 – Dumas in the Caucasus as Lefer
• 1985 – A Long Memory as Uncle Yasha
• 1985 – Goldfish (TV performance) as cameo
• 1988 – Heart of a Dog as Schwonder
• 1989 – The Evil Spirit as Shcherbaty
• 1989 – The Bindler and the King as Lazar Boyarsky
• 1991 – Promised Heaven as Solomon
• 1992 – Apartment (mini-series) as Henry Ivanovich Valenchik
• 1993 – Prediction as patriot and anti-communist
• 2000 – Old Hags as Joseph Lazovsky
• 2005 – The Master and Margarita as Maximilian Andreevich Poplavsky, Berlioz's Uncle
• 2008 – Smile of God, or Purely Odessa story as Mikhail Perelmuter
• 2010 – In the Style of Jazz as Odessa taxi driver

References

External links

• Roman Kartsev at IMDb
• Roman Kartsev at Find a Grave

На других языках

[ru] Карцев, Роман Андреевич