Vladislav Galkin

Vladislav Borisovich Galkin (; 25 December 1971 – 25 February 2010) was a Russian actor who starred in fifty seven films including several TV serials, such as Spetsnaz, The Master and Margarita (2005–2006) and Savages (2006).

Biography

Galkin studied acting at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute from 1988 to 1992, then studied film directing at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in the 1990

Colleagues have said Galkin was suffering from a drinking problem. In 2009, he was charged with hooliganism using a weapon and non-life-threatening violence against a law enforcement official, after an attack on a police lieutenant at a bar in July. In December, he was convicted to a suspended sentence of 14 months.

Selected filmography The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1981) as Huckleberry Finn The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment (1999) as Alexey Podberyozkin, local policeman Truckers (2001) as Alexander 'Sashok' Korovin, truck driver In August of 1944 (2001) as Senior Lieutenant Yevgeny Tamantsev Sketch on the Monitor (2001) as Oleg Spetsnaz (2002) as Senior Lieutenant 'Yakut' Urmanov Investigation Led by Experts (2002) as Avdeev Yeralash (2002) as prisoner 72 Meters (2004) as Senior Warrant Officer Mikhaylov Deadly Force 6 (2005) as Bespalov The Fall of the Empire (2005) as Nikitin, chief of counterintelligence The Master and Margarita (2005) as Ivan Bezdomny, poet Savages (2006) as Chorny, mechanic and leader-production