Ostap Bender
At the age of 62 Archil Gomiashvili quit the stage to become a successful businessman, the prestigious Ostap Bender Club owner, and philanthropist. He continued to appear in films occasionally and in 1985-1994 played Yosif Stalin five times. In the early 2000s he said in an interview:Thirty years are the whole life and I’ve lived this life as/with Ostap. He made me famous, got me a Moscow flat and this restaurant named in his honour... And you know, I think we have a lot in common. We both are actors in need of an audience. Without an audience I need neither chairs nor the money.