Arkady Iosifovich Khait (russian: Аркадий Иосифович Хайт) (25 December 1938 – 22 February 2000) was a Russian Jewish satire, comedy, song and script writer, and a comedian in his late years.Жил-был веселый человек. Аркадий Хайт ("Once Upon The Time There lived a Jolly Man. Arkady Khait"), a documentary

Works

*Co-authoring scripts for ''

Nu, pogodi! ''Well, Just You Wait!'' (russian: Ну, погоди!, Nu, pogodi!, p=ˈnu pəɡɐˈdʲi) is a Soviet, later Russian, series of animated short films produced by Soyuzmultfilm. In the 2014 all-Russian poll, ''Well, Just You Wait!'' won by a ...

'' animated cartoon series *Co-authoring scripts for ''

Leopold the Cat ''Leopold the Cat'' (russian: Кот Леопольд, ''Kot Leopold'') is a Soviet/ Russian animated short film series about a good-natured and prudent cat, Leopold. Leopold always wears a bow tie even when swimming. Throughout the series, he has ...

'' animated cartoon series

Awards

*1991:

Nika Award The Nika Award (sometimes styled NIKA Award) is the main annual national film award in Russia, presented by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science, and seen as the national equivalent of the Oscars. History The award was established i ...

, for film ''Passport'' ( Паспорт) *1990: RSFSR State Prize *1998:

People's Artist People's Artist is an honorary title in the Soviet Union, Union republics, in some other Eastern bloc states (and communist states in general), as well as in a number of post-Soviet states, modeled after the title of the People's Artist of the U ...

of the Russian Federation *1985:

USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, t ...

for works of literature and arts for children

References

1938 births 2000 deaths Writers from Moscow Russian Jews Soviet Jews Soviet writers Russian satirists Russian lyricists Male screenwriters 20th-century Russian male writers Recipients of the USSR State Prize 20th-century Russian screenwriters {{russia-bio-stub