Valeri Frid was born on January 13, 1922 in Tomsk, Tomsk uyezd, Tomsk Governorate, RSFSR as Valeri Semyonovich Frid. He was a writer and actor, known for Ekipazh (1980), Sherlok Kholms i doktor Vatson: Znakomstvo (1979) and Sherlok Kholms i doktor Vatson: Krovavaya nadpis (1979). He died on September 7, 1998 in Moscow, Russia.