Oleg Zhakov Explained

Oleg Petrovich Zhakov (Russian: Олег Петрович Жаков; 1 April 1905 in Sarapul, Vyatka Governorate  - 4 May 1988 in Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Krai) was a Soviet and Russian film actor.[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]

He graduated from the Leningrad College of Performing Arts (1929).[3]

He starred in more than a hundred films.[4]

After 1957 he lived in Pyatigorsk, where he died on May 4, 1988. He was buried at Krasnoslobodskoye Сemetery in Pyatigorsk.[5]

Selected filmography

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
1973Looking for a ManThe Man
1969By the LakeAlexander Alexandrovich Barmin
1968The Seven Cervi BrothersAlcide Cervi
1955The Shadow Near the PierMajor Lyudov
1954A Tale of the Forest GiantNikandr Petrovich Dudin
1953Hostile WhirlwindsGeorgy Pyatakov
The Great Warrior SkanderbegTanush Thopia
1946The White FangWeedon Scott
In the Name of LifeRozhdestvensky
1944Ivan the Terrible (1944 film)Heinrich von Staden
1942The Murderers are Comingcaptain
1938The Great CitizenSergey Vasilevich Borovsky
Professor MamlockRolf Mamlok
Peat-Bog SoldiersPaul
1937For the Soviet MotherlandToivo Antikainen
1936The Sailors of KronstadtRegiment Commander Draudin
1930Wind in the FaceBoris
1929The New Babyloncommunard
1927The Club of the Big DeedHussar
1926The Overcoatan official in the cloak

Notes and References

  1. Book: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Peter Rollberg. Rowman & Littlefield. 2009. US. 978-0-8108-6072-8. 759–760.
  2. 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.
  3. http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/sov/1475/bio/ Биография Олега Жакова
  4. http://1001material.ru/995.html Олег Жаков. Ностальгия по-советскому
  5. http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/sov/1475/bio/ Биография Олега Жакова