Talgat Nigmatulin

Talgat Kadyrovich Nigmatulin (, ; 5 March 1949, in Kyzyl-Kiya – 11 February 1985, in Vilnius) was a famous Soviet actor and martial artist. Nigmatullin was born on October 5, 1949, in a Tatar-Uzbek family in Kirgizia. He took part in many action movies. Perhaps his most famous movie was Pirates of the 20th Century. He also appeared in other films as shown below.

Selected filmography 1969 — Her Name is Spring as Pulat Sadykov 1971 — The Night At the 14th Parallel as Sitong 1972 — The Seventh Bullet (Седьмая пуля) as Ismail 1977 — Armed and Dangerous (Вооружен и очень опасен) as Joyce 1979 — Pirates of the 20th Century (Пираты 20-ого века) as Salikh 1981 — The Right to Shoot as captain of the schooner Kiyoshi 1981 — The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (Приключения Тома Сойера и Гекльберри Финна) as Injun Joe 1983 — The Wolf Pit (Волчья яма) as Samat Kasimov 1984 — Lonely and Unarmed (Один и без оружия) as Khan 1985 — Confrontation (Противостояние) as Urazbaev, a police captain in Kokand

Death Nigmatulin became a follower of Abai Borubayev, a teacher from Central Asia who had found favour with Moscow art circles, and was murdered in 1985 by other followers of Borubayev, in the latter's presence.