Vali Galimov was born on June 12, 1908 in Satlamyshevo, Sviyazhsk uyezd, Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire as Valiakhmet Girfanutdinovich Galimov. He was an actor, known for Salavat Yulayev (1940). He died on February 15, 1994 in Kazan, Russia.