Born October 12, 1929 in Kiev.
He graduated from the acting department Drama School BV Shchukin (1951).
In 1951-1958 years – an actor of the Moscow Theatre of Young Spectators.
In the years 1958-1960 – director of the Leningrad Theatre of the Lenin Young Communist League, led the Student Theater at Moscow State University.
In 1960 came the film studio "Mosfilm", where he was first an actor, and later became a director of feature films.
In the movie began filming in 1954, the first role played in the film by Vladimir Basov "School of courage."
Directing debut in the film – in 1962, when the comic strip set "Seven nurses. In the genre of comedy has been made and the second picture – were missing summer "(1964, with N. Orlov). The film "Ajbolit 66", filmed on a fairy tale Korney Chukovsky, was a notable step in the development of music and comedy and played the role of Barmaleev – one of the brightest pages of artistic biography.
Rolan Bykov can rightly be called one of the best directors of children's cinema, and it created the films "Attention, Turtle!", "Telegram," "Car, Violin and Blot the dog" and especially "Scarecrow," went into the "golden fund" of Soviet cinema.
Since 1989 – artistic director of association "Youth".
In 1989 he organized the All-Union Center for Film and Television for Children and Youth, later transformed into the International Development Fund for Film and Television for Children and Youth, and after the death of the great director he is known as the "Fund Rolan Bykov.
He was elected secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR.
People's deputy of the USSR in 1989-1991.
He headed the non-partisan social and political movement 95 – The Union of NGOs of workers of culture, science, education and ecology.
He was president of the bank "HELP."
Academician of Russian Academy of Motion Picture Arts.
Honored Artist of Russia (in 1973).
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1987)
The People's Artist of the USSR (05/07/1990).
Rolan Bykov died on the night of October 6, 1998 in Moscow, before reaching one year before his 70-year anniversary.
He was buried on October 9 at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, station number 10.
Prizes and awards:
Winner of USSR State Prize (1986).
In 1994 he was awarded the honorary gold medal LN Tolstoy is awarded annually to International Association of Children's Fund.