Fallen Comrade

in Hits & Misses by
“Anybody seen Danko’s parakeet? That little fucker got out of his cage again.”

Oleg Vidov
Actor, director, Ruskie.
June 11, 1943 – May 15, 2017.
Aged 73 years.

Most recognized for: In the 1988 action turd “Red Heat,” he played Schwarzenegger’s Russian cop partner. Apart from appearing in American films ruined by Jim Belushi’s “acting,” he had a successful film career on the other side of the Iron Curtain… and at one point was dubbed “The Soviet Robert Redford.”