--- name: "Rolan Bykov" canonical: "https://film.one/person/rolan-bykov" fi1m_id: "rolan-bykov" imdb_id: "nm0125909" tmdb_id: 1191198 wikidata_id: "Q378333" roles: ["Actor"] born: "13 November 1929" died: "6 October 1998" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-26T16:51:48.604909+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Rolan Bykov ## Identity Rolan Bykov - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rolan-bykov - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** rolan-bykov - **IMDb ID:** nm0125909 - **TMDB ID:** 1191198 - **Wikidata ID:** Q378333 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolan_Bykov, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q378333, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0125909/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1191198 Actor. Born 13 November 1929 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kyiv, Ukraine]. Died 6 October 1998. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 13 November 1929, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kyiv, Ukraine] - **Died:** 6 October 1998 - **Also known as:** Ролан Антонович Быков, Р. Быков, R. Bykov - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolan_Bykov, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q378333, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0125909/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1191198 ## Biography Rolan Bykov was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. He trained at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and began his career in theatre before moving to Mosfilm, where he worked for four decades. Bykov appeared in over 100 film roles. He is known for playing the Buffoon in Andrei Tarkovsky's *Andrei Rublev* (1966), Father Fyodor in *The Twelve Chairs* (1977), Basilio the Cat in *The Adventures of Buratino* (1976), and the conductor in *Scarecrow* (1983), which he also directed and co-wrote. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1990. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Andrei Rublev* (1966), Fi1m 86, as Buffoon — [page](https://film.one/film/andrei-rublev.md) ## Complete filmography (114) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Night of The Yellow Bull* (1997), Actor - *Golden Bottom* (1995), as Dima - *Russian Steam Locomotive* (1995), Actor - *What a Mess!* (1995), as Brilliant's buyer - *To Remember* (1993), series, as Narrator - *The Gray Wolves* (1993), as Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchyov - *Ivan & Abraham* (1993), as Nachman - *Arbiter* (1992), Actor - *How Are The Kids?* (1992), Director - *Nakas* (1991), Actor - *Lyuba* (1990), Writer, Director - *Ono* (1989), as Pyotr Petrovich Ferdyshchenko - *The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin* (1987), as Toto (voice) - *Happy Gregory* (1987), as Gregory the dog (voice) - *Dead Man's Letters* (1986), as Professor Larsen - *Chicherin* (1986), as D'Annunzio - *Murder Complicity* (1986), as Frank Fields - *Chegemian Detective* (1986), Actor - *Trial on the Road* (1986), as Lokotkov - *Sincerely Yours...* (1985), as Postnikov - *The Little Elephant Got Sick* (1985), as cat (voice) / кот (голос) - *Start All Over Again* (1985), Actor - *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn* (1985), as Mef Potter - *Hero of Her Romance* (1985), Actor - *Requiem for a Fillet* (1985), Actor - *The Defendant* (1985), as адвокат - *Scarecrow* (1983), Conductor, Director, Screenplay - *Golden Fleece* (1983), as Uncle Misha - *Raspberry Jam* (1983), as narrator / рассказчик - *The Wedding Gift* (1983), Director, Co-Writer - *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn* (1982), series, as Meff Potter - *Where Did Fomenko Go?* (1981), Actor - *The Vacancy* (1981), Actor - *Soul* (1981), Actor - *Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh* (1981), as Lisyutkin - *Cabaret* (1981), Actor - *Adventures of Ali-Baba and the Forty Thieves* (1980), as The Vizier / The Thieves Chief - *Amnesty* (1980), Actor - *There Was a Tuner* (1980), Screenplay - *Pif-paf, oy-oy-oy!* (1980), as Opera composer / охотник, автор оперы, лидер ВИА - *Foam* (1979), as Полудушкин, нужный человек - *The Imaginary Invalid* (1979), as врач господин Диафуарус - *Rostik and Kesha* (1979), as (voice) - *The Steel Ring* (1979), as (voice) - *Speak My Language* (1979), as Эдик - *While the Dream is Mad* (1978), Actor - *Domestic Circumstances* (1978), series, as логопед - *Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...* (1978), as участковый врач (новелла «Вредная работа») - *About the Little Red Riding Hood* (1977), as охотник - *Nose* (1977), Director, Writer - *Rudin* (1977), Actor - *Yuliya Vrevskaya* (1977), as Brofft - *The Orphans* (1977), as Vladimir Gromov - *Domestic Circumstances* (1977), Actor - *Loskutik i oblako* (1977), as (voice) - *The Days of Surgeon Mishkin* (1977), series, Actor - *The Twelve Chairs* (1977), series, as Отец Фёдор - *The Days of Surgeon Mishkin* (1976), Actor - *To the Bright Light* (1976), Actor - *The Adventures of Buratino* (1976), as Basilio The Cat / Кот Базилио - *Duck Village* (1976), as Shishok - *The Ordinary Arctic* (1976), Actor - *The Adventures of Buratino* (1975), series, as Кот Базилио - *Mukh the Walker* (1975), as (voice) - *The Executive* (1974), Actor - *Car, Violin and Blot the Dog* (1974), as Дирижёр, Скрипач, Леонид Ломакин, Житель дома, Глухонемая бабушка, Старушка с кошками · Director, Lyricist - *Docker* (1974), Actor - *Maigret and the Man on the Bench* (1973), as Fred the Clown - *Captain* (1973), Actor - *Peterss* (1973), Actor - *The Long Recess* (1973), series, as Петрыкин Александр Трофимович - *Landing* (1973), as Koklov - *Tracer Element* (1972), as проводник Пчёлкин - *Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram* (1972), as Fyodorenko Samolyovich - *The Long Recess* (1972), as Alexander Trofimovich Petrykin - *Telegram* (1972), as Guy singing on the street · Director - *Forest Captain* (1972), as Admiral - *The Prince and the Pauper* (1972), as сэр Вильям, церемониймейстер - *The Pickwick Papers* (1972), Actor - *Crown of Russian Empire, or the Elusives Again* (1971), as bald emperor - *Attention, Turtle!* (1970), as Didenko's grandfather / Manukyan's grandmother (uncredited) · Director - *The Last Relic* (1970), as Brother Johannes - *Subject for a Short Story* (1969), as Mikhail Pavlovich Chekhov - *Wait For Me, Anna* (1969), Actor - *We Are Taking All The Fire* (1969), as Tereh - *The Dead Season* (1968), as Ivan Savushkin - *Two Comrades Were Serving* (1968), as Ivan Karyakin - *The Wave Runner* (1967), as Captain Chez - *The Commissar* (1967), as Yefim Mahazannik - *Aybolit-66* (1967), as Barmalei · Writer, Director - *Song of a Falcon* (1967), Actor - *Andrei Rublev* (1966), as Buffoon — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/andrei-rublev.md) - *Deary* (1966), Actor - *Hello, It's Me!* (1966), as Oleg Ponomaryov - *The Girl and the Bugler* (1965), as The Bugler - *Call Fire for Ourselves* (1965), series, as Терех, полицай - *The Marriage of Balzaminov* (1964), as Лукьян Лукьянович Чебаков, военный - *An Unrealistic Story* (1964), as парень на брусьях - *Big "Wick"* (1964), as кавказец-взяточник (новелла «Сон в руку») - *In the Enemy's Den* (1964), as priest (uncredited) - *Walking the Streets of Moscow* (1964), as Man in Park - *Journey into April* (1964), as виноторговец - *1 Newton Street* (1963), as Poacher - *Summer Is Over* (1963), Director - *Seven Babysitters* (1962), Director - *Fuse* (1962), series, Director - *Be Careful, Grandma!* (1961), as Librarian - *You Can't Cross the Bridge* (1960), as Stanley - *Baltic Skies* (1960), as Kabankov - *The Overcoat* (1959), as Акакий Акакиевич - *Our Correspondent* (1959), as Nikolai Uvarov - *It Began This Way...* (1956), as Lapshin - *Roads and Destinies* (1956), as Венник - *Road to Life* (1955), as Stepan Perets ## Gallery - ![Rolan Bykov](https://film.one/media/person/3915295/gallery-086565b873a8.jpg) Rolan Bykov — Игорь Верещагин, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Rolan_Bykov_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Actor and director of theater and cinema Roland Bykov and poet from the generation of the sixties, writer, translator Isabella (Bella) Akhmadulina, Moscow, 1996](https://film.one/media/person/3915295/gallery-121ac4c7656f.jpg) Actor and director of theater and cinema Roland Bykov and poet from the generation of the sixties, writer, translator Isabella (Bella) Akhmadulina, Moscow, 1996 — Leo Medvedev/Лев Леонидович Медведев, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Bykov-Akhmadulina.jpg/1280px-Bykov-Akhmadulina.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Кадр из фильма «Сюжет для небольшого рассказа». Режиссер С. Юткевич, в ролях: А.П. Чехов — Н. Гринько (слева), Александр, брат писателя, — Р. Быков. Автор В. Ма (1968)](https://film.one/media/person/3915295/gallery-c2e811ccc5dd.jpg) Кадр из фильма «Сюжет для небольшого рассказа». Режиссер С. Юткевич, в ролях: А.П. Чехов — Н. Гринько (слева), Александр, брат писателя, — Р. Быков. Автор В. Ма (1968) — Главархив Москвы, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Grinko_and_Bykov_on_Anton_Chekhov.jpg/1280px-Grinko_and_Bykov_on_Anton_Chekhov.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Rolan Bykov](https://film.one/media/person/3915295/gallery-dde86825a7fb.jpg) Rolan Bykov — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 8 won - Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class 1994: Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (won) - People's Artist of the USSR 1990: People's Artist of the USSR (won) - People's Artist of the RSFSR 1987: People's Artist of the RSFSR (won) - Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR 1987: Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (won) - USSR State Prize 1986: USSR State Prize (won) - Honored Artist of the RSFSR 1973: Honored Artist of the RSFSR (won) - Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" 1970: Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (won) - Medal "For Labour Valour" 1967: Medal "For Labour Valour" (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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