Tabakov was known for his roles in Grigori Chukhrai's "Clear Skies" (1961), Sergei Bondarchuk's "War and Peace" (1966–67), TV series "Seventeen Instants of Spring" (1973) and "D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers" (1978), the Academy Award-winning "Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears" (1980), Nikita Mikhalkov's "Oblomov" (1981) and "Dark Eyes" (1986), and "A Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines" (1987).