Oleg Petrovich Zhakov (Russian: Олег Петрович Жаков; 1 April 1905 – 4 May 1988) was a Soviet and Russian film actor who was born in Sarapul, Vyatka Governorate.[1] He performed in more than sixty films between 1927 up to 1988. People's Artist of the USSR (1969).[2] Winner of USSR State Prize (1971) and the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1946).[2][3]
He graduated from the Leningrad College of Performing Arts (1929).[4]
He starred in more than a hundred films.[5]
After 1957 he lived in Pyatigorsk, where he died on May 4, 1988. He was buried at Krasnoslobodskoye Сemetery in Pyatigorsk.[4]
Selected filmography
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Looking for a Man | The Man | |
| 1969 | By the Lake | Alexander Alexandrovich Barmin | |
| 1968 | The Seven Cervi Brothers | Alcide Cervi | |
| 1955 | The Shadow Near the Pier | Major Lyudov | |
| 1954 | A Tale of the Forest Giant | Nikandr Petrovich Dudin | |
| 1953 | Hostile Whirlwinds | Georgy Pyatakov | |
| The Great Warrior Skanderbeg | Tanush Thopia | ||
| 1948 | The Precious Seed | Ivashin | |
| 1946 | The White Fang | Weedon Scott | |
| In the Name of Life | Rozhdestvensky | ||
| 1944 | Ivan the Terrible | Heinrich von Staden | |
| 1942 | The Murderers are Coming | captain | |
| 1938 | The Great Citizen | Sergey Vasilevich Borovsky | |
| Professor Mamlock | Rolf Mamlok | ||
| Peat-Bog Soldiers | Paul | ||
| 1937 | For the Soviet Motherland | Toivo Antikainen | |
| 1936 | The Sailors of Kronstadt | Regiment Commander Draudin | |
| 1930 | Wind in the Face | Boris | |
| 1929 | The New Babylon | communard | |
| 1927 | The Club of the Big Deed | Hussar | |
| 1926 | The Overcoat | an official in the cloak |
References
edit- ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman / Littlefield. pp. 759–760. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
- ^ a b Большая Советская Энциклопедия. Гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров, 3-е изд. Т. 9. Евклид — Ибсен. 1972. 624 стр., илл.; 43 л. илл. и карт. 1 карта-вкл.
- ^ Жаков Олег Петрович. bigenc.ru
- ^ a b Биография Олега Жакова. kino-teatr.ru
- ^ Олег Жаков. Ностальгия по-советскому. 1001material.ru
External links
edit- Oleg Zhakov at IMDb