[5] During World War II Iosif Gaft served in the Red Army finishing with the rank of Major.

[7] Gaft started his work for the cinema in 1956 in the Mikhail Romm's film Murder on Dante Street.

[8] Later he starred in the movies The First Courier (1968), Mad Gold (1977), Centaurs (1979), Black Hen, or Underground Villagers (1981), Fuete (1986).

[2] In 1994, Gaft played Woland in Yuri Kara's film The Master and Margarita, which was only released in 2011.

Teleplays with Gaft's participation included Just a few words in honor of M. de Moliere, Widow's Home, Players, Aesop, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?