Arkadi Isaakovich Rajkin was born on October 24, 1911, in Riga, Russian Empire (now Riga, Latvia). His father, named Isaak Raikin, worked at the Riga sea port. In 1922 his family moved to Petrograd (now St. Petersburg, Russia). There young Rajkin took his first acting lessons at the local drama club. In 1935 he graduated from the Leningrad Theater...
Artistic Director of the Leningrad Theater of Miniatures (1942 - 1987) Worked with writers: V. Polyakov, V, Mass, M. Chervinsky. M. Zhvanetsky. The Moscow "Satirikon" Theater is named after Arkadi Rajkin.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Korolevskiy buterbrod
1985
Short
Narrator (voice)
Lyudi i manekeny
1975
TV Mini-Series
Pyotr Martynovich i gody bolshoy zhizni
1974
Volshebnaya sila iskusstva
1970
TV Movie
Kogda pesnya ne konchaetsya
1965
Banya
1962
Muz mnoha tvárí
1958
My s vami gde-to vstrechalis
1954
Gennadiy Vladimirovich Maksimov
Kontsert frontu
1942
Short
Projectionist
Wings of Victory
1941
American journalist
Ognennye gody
1939
Doktor Kalyuzhnyy
1939
Pervyy vzvod
1933
Soldier (uncredited)
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Lyudi i manekeny
1975
TV Mini-Series 2 episodes
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Lyudi i manekeny
1975
TV Mini-Series screenplay - 2 episodes
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Arkadiy Raykin
1975
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Arkadiy Raykin
1968
Documentary
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1968
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR
1957
People's Artist of the Republic
People's Artist of the Republic
Russia
Known for movies
Lyudi i manekeny (1975) as Actor
My s vami gde-to vstrechalis (1954) as Gennadiy Vladimirovich Maksimov
$20 Million
