Yuriy Dumchev
Biography
Yuriy Eduardovich Dumchev (Russian: Юрий Эдуардович Думчев; 5 August 1958 – 10 February 2016) was a Russian track and field athlete for the Soviet Union, who set the world record in the men's discus throw on 29 May 1983 with a distance of 71.86 metres. He was born in Rossosh. That mark, surpassed by current record-holder Jürgen Schult in July 1986, is still the Russian record. A 1980 Olympian, Dumchev also represented the Soviet Union at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, finishing in fourth place (66.42 m).
Since 1979, he acted in films (more than 50 films).
Dumchev died in Adler, Sochi on 10 February 2016, aged 57
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Filmography
Hard to Be a God
2014
as Rohe Keu
Moscow Chill
2007
as Carp
Khottabych
2006
as Aleksandr
Посылка с Марса
2004
as Гена, охранник
Jacked$
2004
as 'Gorilla'
Mail Order Bride
2003
as driver
Barbarian
2003
as Dark Prince
Shoemaker
2002
House of Fools
2002
as Kvas
Red Serpent
2002
Antikiller
2002
I Am A Dummy
2002
as Кабанюк
Down House
2001
as дантист
Old Hags
2000
Chinese Tea-Set
2000
I Want To Go To Prison
1998
as Здоровый
A Silhouette in the Window Across the Street
1993
Tanks Are Running on Taganka
1991
as fat man in a diner, "racketeer"
Funeral on the Second Floor
1991
as Circassian bodyguard
House Under the Starry Skies
1991
as спортсмен
Accelerate
1987
as (uncredited)
A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines
1987
Faster Than Own Shadow
1980