Actor director scriptwriter songwriter poet
Rolan Bykov was born to a Jewish family in Kiev. He was born Rolan Antonovich Bykov, but in his official documents the name consistently was, following an official"s mistake in 1946, misspelt as Roland Anatolyevich (a patronymic from a different name. Bykov"s father was Anton and not Anatoly).
Between 1937 and 1947 Bykov studied in Moscow schools. In 1939 he joined a youth theatrical studio.
His selected filmography include: The Overcoat (1959), I Step Through Moscow (1963), Hello, That's Me! (1966), Andrei Rublev (1966), Aybolit-66 (1966), Commissar (1967), Two Comrades Were Serving (1968), Dead Season (1968), Big School-Break (1972), Rudin (1976), Wounded Game (1977), Alibaba Aur 40 Chor (1979), Dusha (1981), Scarecrow (1983), Dead Man's Letters (1986), Me Ivan, You Abraham (1993), Shirli-Myrli (1995).
He was a member of the Cinematographers’ Union of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
