Cast
Josip Peruzović
Acting
Cast
Josip Peruzović
Known for
Acting
Born
1947-10-14
From
Split, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
Died
2018-07-29
Also known as Nikolai Volkoff, Boris Breznikoff, Bepo Mongol
Biography
Josip Hrvoje Peruzović better known by his ring name of Nikolai Volkoff, was a Croatian-American professional wrestler who was best known for his performances in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Although the Volkoff character was often portrayed as a villainous Russian, Peruzović originated from Yugoslavia. In the 1970s, he was Bepo of the Mongols tag team, one of the masked Executioners and feuded with Bruno Sammartino over the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship as Volkoff. In the 1980s, he was known for teaming with The Iron Sheik, with whom he won the WWF Tag Team Championship at the inaugural WrestleMania event, and later with Boris Zhukov as The Bolsheviks. In 1990, he turned face and embraced America, briefly feuding with Zhukov and newly-turned Iraqi sympathizer Sgt. Slaughter. In 1994, after a hiatus, he returned as a destitute and desperate character, exploited by Ted DiBiase as the first member of his Million Dollar Corporation.
★6.4
MOVIE1986
WrestleMania II
as Nikolai Volkoff
★6.7
MOVIE1985
WrestleMania
as Nikolai Volkoff
★7.4
MOVIE1987
WWE WrestleMania III
as Nikolai Volkoff
★8.8
MOVIE2001
WWE WrestleMania X-Seven
as Nikolai Volkoff
★10.0
MOVIE2014
WWE: 150 Best Pay-Per-View Matches, Vol 1
as Nikolai Volkoff
★5.0
MOVIE1988
WWE WrestleFest
as Nikolai Volkoff
★8.4
MOVIE1987
WWE Survivor Series 1987
as Volkoff
★7.4
MOVIE2014
The Sheik
as Self
★3.3
MOVIE2018
WrestleMassacre
as Randy's Father
★8.4
MOVIE1990
WWE WrestleMania VI
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1986
WWE Detroit Wrestling '86
as Nikolai Volkoff
★6.0
MOVIE2017
Sweet Daddy Siki
★4.0
MOVIE1986
The British Bulldogs
as Nikolai Volkoff
★6.9
MOVIE1992
WWE Royal Rumble 1992
as Nikolai Volkoff
★6.6
MOVIE1988
WWE Royal Rumble 1988
as Nikolai Volkoff
★7.7
MOVIE1990
WWE Survivor Series 1990
as Nikolai Volkoff
★10.0
MOVIE2009
WWE: The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1989
The Brains Behind the Brawn
as Nikolai Volkoff
★10.0
MOVIE1985
WWE War to Settle the Score
as Nikolai Volkoff
★7.3
MOVIE1988
WWE SummerSlam 1988
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1987
WWE Houston Wrestling: October '87
as Nikolai Volkoff
★6.3
MOVIE1985
The Wrestling Classic
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1990
WWE The Main Event IV
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1986
Villains of the Squared Circle
as Nikolai Volkoff (Ringside)
MOVIE1986
Villains of the Squared Circle
as Nikolai Volkoff
★4.0
MOVIE2002
Wrestling Then and Now
as Himself
MOVIE2006
Legends Never Die
★8.2
MOVIE1988
WWE Survivor Series 1988
as Nikolai Volkoff
★10.0
MOVIE1987
Wrestling's Most Embarrassing Moments
as Nikolai Volkoff
★6.9
MOVIE1990
WWE SummerSlam 1990
as Nikolai Volkoff
★7.3
MOVIE1988
WWE WrestleMania IV
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1988
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: July '88
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1985
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: November '85
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1987
WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: January '87
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1988
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: September '88
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE2008
Giants, Midgets, Heroes and Villains II
as Nikolai Volkoff
★7.1
MOVIE2009
WWE: Allied Powers - The World's Greatest Tag Teams
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1986
The Best of the WWF: volume 7
as Nikolai Volkoff
★6.0
MOVIE1985
Wrestling's Biggest, Smallest, Strangest, Strongest!
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1989
Demolition: Witness the Power
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1986
WWE Houston Wrestling: November '86
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE2007
Mid-South Wrestling Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains vol. 1
as Nikolai Volkoff
★2.5
MOVIE2017
Cool As Hell 2
as Nikolai
MOVIE1985
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: October '85
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE2007
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
as Count Zarkoff
★3.0
MOVIE2021
Daisy Derkins and the Dinosaur Apocalypse
as Self (as Nikolai Volkoff)
MOVIE1985
The WWF's Amazing Managers
as Nikolai Volkoff
★5.1
MOVIE2019
350 Days
as Self
MOVIE1980
NWA The Last Tangle in Tampa
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1986
Wrestling's Living Legend Bruno Sammartino
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1986
WWE Houston Wrestling: October '86
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1984
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: September '84
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE2006
Grand Masters of Wrestling: First Blood Vol. 1
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1990
WWE SuperTape: Volume 1
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1987
Bob Uecker's Wacky World of Sports
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1984
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: October '84
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1984
WWE Wrestling at The Meadowlands: October '84
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1990
Wrestling Tough Guys
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1986
Tag Team Champions
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE2006
Grand Masters of Wrestling: Volume 1
as Nikoli Volkoff
MOVIE1989
Hulk Hogan: Real American
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1988
The Best of the WWF: volume 17
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1987
The WWF's Even More Unusual Matches
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1987
WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: November '87
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1990
WWE SummerSlam Fever
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1988
WWE Los Angeles Wrestling: August '88
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE2005
World Wrestling Legends: 6:05 - The Reunion
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE1986
The Best of the WWF: volume 9
as Nikolai Volkoff
★8.5
MOVIE2005
WWE Hall of Fame 2005
as Nikolai Volkoff
MOVIE2006
Grand Masters of Wrestling: Volume 2
as Nikolai Volkoff
★1.0
MOVIE1999
Heroes of Wrestling
as Nikolai Volkoff