Roman Kartsev

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
Died2 October 2018(2018-10-02) (aged 79)
Moscow, Russia
OccupationActor, humorist
Years active1960–2018
Spouse(s)Viktoria Kassinskaya
AwardsPeople'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.

Roman Kartsev and Viktor Ilchenko, 1975

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
  1. Роман Карцев: фильмография и биография, все фильмы с участием Роман Карцева
  2. Биография Романа Карцева
  3. Honorary title conferred by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of February 19, 1990
  4. Награждён указом президента России № 940 от 30 июля 1999 года
  5. Интервью Виктору Кордовскому
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