Long careers are rarer than they look, and Michael Pataki has become a familiar face with the unglamorous consistency that long careers are made of. If the filmography has a home genre, it is drama. The count stands at 81 titles, and the range inside it is wide. For much of the audience, Michael Pataki is Nicoli Koloff from 'Rocky IV', whatever else the credits say. 'Rocky V' belongs on any short list of his work.
Michael Pataki
Actor
72 years (Jan 16, 1938 – Apr 15, 2010)Youngstown, USAYoungstown, Ohio, USA
Long careers are rarer than they look, and Michael Pataki has become a familiar face with the unglamorous consistency that long careers are made of. If the filmography has a home genre, it is drama. The count stands at 81 titles, and the range inside it is wide. For much of the audience, Michael Pataki is Nicoli Koloff from 'Rocky IV', whatever else the credits say. 'Rocky V' belongs on any short list of his work.
Michael Pataki (January 16, 1938 – April 15, 2010) was an American character actor.Michael Pataki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.