Rostislav Plyatt is a Soviet theater and film actor.
At school, Rostislav began attending a drama club led by
Vladimir Lebedev. He studied drama courses in Moscow under
Yuri Zavadsky, and then worked at his Theater Studio. In 1936, he moved with the theater to Rostov-on-Don, where he worked at the Maksim Gorkiy Theater and appeared in many performances. After returning to Moscow, he became an artist at the Lenin Komsomol Theater. Plyatt was also an actor at the Moscow Drama Theater.
He began acting in films in 1939. He played in
Lenin in 1918 (1939) and in
The Foundling (1940), which immediately made him famous. Rostislav Plyatt's most famous character is Pastor Schlag from
Tatyana Lioznova's TV series
Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973). The actor's last film role was in
Vizit k Minotavru (1987), based on the Vayner brothers' novel of the same name.