In 2002, Avilov worked as a choreographer in the play "Perfume" of the Art House Theatre, staging two contemporary style dances for his Grenouille. In the same year at the Cinema he opened his acting school. In 2004 Viktor Avilov tried himself in directing. In the theater Kino Performance Theatre he worked on staging the play "The Sinful Village of Dalskabata, or the Forgotten Devil" based on the play of Czech playwright Jan Drda. His cinematic debut was in the 1988 horror film "Mister Designer" based on the story of Green's "The Gray Car" and he also acted in the film "The Prisoner of Château d'If" based on the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" which was also released in the same year. Viktor Avilov starred in the films "On the Grass Barefoot" (1987), "Love for Neighbor" (1988), "The Art of Living in Odessa" (1989), "Safari No. 6" (1990), "Polygon" (1990), "Dissolved Evil" (1991), "Dancing Ghosts" (1992), "Psychic" (1992), "Musketeers Twenty Years After" (1992), "Cockroach Run" (1993), "Antifaust" (1993), "Wolf's Blood" (1995), "The Frog Princess" (1998); "Synoptic" (2002), "The Golden Head on the Scaffold" (2004) and others. Viktor Avilov was married three times, he has two daughters. In the last years of his life, the actor had health problems. In 1995, during a tour in Berlin, he was hospitalized with the diagnosis of perforated ulcer and suffered a clinical death twice. In 2004, Avilov was diagnosed with cancer. Viktor Avilov died on August 21, 2004, in the Akademgorodok of Novosibirsk. He was buried at Vostryakovskoe cemetery in Moscow.