Oleg Zhakov

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]

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.[3]

  1. ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 759–760. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b Биография Олега Жакова
  4. ^ Олег Жаков. Ностальгия по-советскому