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]
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- ^ Жаков Олег Петрович. bigenc.ru
- ^ a b Биография Олега Жакова. kino-teatr.ru
- ^ Олег Жаков. Ностальгия по-советскому. 1001material.ru