Splash starred a Russian actor.
Splash is a 1984 American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard , written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel , and starring Tom Hanks , Daryl Hannah , John Candy , Eugene Levy , and Dody Goodman . Vitali Viktorovich Baganov ( Виталий Викторович Баганов born September 6 , 1952 in Leningrad , Russia , USSR ( now Saint Petersburg ) is a Russian actor of film and television currently based in the United States who guest starred as Valery the Russian gangster in The Sopranos episode Pine Barrens . Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov ( Влади́мир Валенти́нович Меньшо́в born 17 September 1939 in Baku ) is a Soviet and Russian actor and film director .