Roman Kartsev

Roman Andreyevich Kartsev (, born Roman Antshelevich Katz ; 20 May 1939 – 2 October 2018) was a Russian entertainer of stage, theater and cinema.

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

Biography 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.

In the early 1960s he became friends with Mikhail Zhvanetsky and Viktor Ilchenko, founders of the Parnas-2 amateur theatre in Odessa, who invited him to join the troupe.

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 Odesa taxi driver