Oleg Anofriyev

Oleg Anofriyev

Background information
Birth name	Oleg Andreyevich Anofriyev
Born	(1930-07-20)20 July 1930 Gelendzhik, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	28 March 2018(2018-03-28) (aged 87) Moscow, Russia
Genres	Pop
Years active	1955–2018

Website	Oleg Anofriev's Diary

Musical artist

Oleg Andreyevich Anofriyev (sometimes spelled Anofriev, Russian: Олег Андреевич Анофриев; 20 July 1930 – 28 March 2018), PAR, was a Soviet and Russian theatre^[1] and film actor, voice actor, singer, songwriter, film director, and poet. He was born in Gelendzhik, but spent all his life in Moscow and graduated from Moscow Art Theatre in 1954.^[2] He was widely popular in USSR (mostly due to the leading role in The Bremen Town Musicians animated film) and was honored with the title Honored Artist of the RSFSR and later, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation.^[1]

Biography

Oleg Andreyevich Anofriyev was born in Gelendzhik on 20 July 1930 in the family of a doctor, head of medical furniture at the GPP-1, Andrei Sergeyevich Anofriyev and housewife Maria Gavrilovna Anofriyeva and was their third son, he had two older brothers, Sergei and Vladimir. Although the family lived in Moscow, Oleg was born in Gelendzhik, because during the summer holiday season, Andrei received an appointment every year as chief physician in a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast (when Oleg was born, he was the chief physician of the sanatorium of the Moscow State University).

Death

He died on 28 March 2018 in Moscow^[3] from severe heart disease.^[4]

Selected filmography

Actor

Behind Show Windows (За витриной универмага, 1955) as Slava Sidorkin
A Girl with Guitar (Девушка с гитарой, 1958) as Vanya Savushkin
A Simple Story (Простая история, 1960) as Agronomist
Scarlet Sails (Алые паруса, 1961) as Letika the seaman
Funny Stories (Весёлые истории, 1962) as Fedka
Colleagues (Коллеги, 1962) as Vladka Karpov
Tale About the Lost Time (Сказка о потерянном времени, 1964) as old Petya
Friends and Years (Друзья и годы, 1965) as Vadim Lyalin
Passing Through Moscow (В Москве проездом…, 1970) as Alik
Car, Violin and Blot the Dog (Автомобиль, скрипка и собака Клякса, 1974) as Accordion and electric guitar musician
Incognito from St. Petersburg (Инкогнито из Петербурга, 1977) as Bobchinsky/Singing voice for Ivan Khlestakov
The Turning Point (Поворот, 1978) as Vedeneyev's lawyer
Be My Husband (Будьте моим мужем, 1981) as Spa visitor-veterinarian
Along Unknown Paths (Там, на неведомых дорожках..., 1982) as Nightingale the Robber
After the Rain, on Thursday (После дождичка в четверг, 1985) as King Avdey
One Second for a Feat (Секунда на подвиг, 1985) as Gurenko
Gardes-Marines, Ahead! (Гардемарины, вперёд!, 1987) as Nolken the Swedish ambassador
A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Человек с бульвара Капуцинов, 1987) as Ballroom pianist
The Criminal Quartet (Криминальный квартет, 1989) as Matvey Iosifovich Feldman
Two Arrows. Stone Age Detective (Две стрелы. Детектив каменного века, 1989) as Drummer
Back in the USSR (Назад в СССР, 1992) as Taxi driver
Moscow Vacation (Московские каникулы, 1995) as Plane commander

Voice

1964: The Satin Street (Sitsevaya ulitsa)
1969: The Bremen Town Musicians
1973: A Tale of a Priest and His Workman Balda
1974: A №10 Tram was coming; How a Lion-cub and a Tortoise Sang a Song; The Land of Sannikov
1975: In the Port
1979: Very Blue Beard

References

^ ^a ^b Русский драматический театр: Энциклопедия / Под общ. ред. М. И. Андреева, Н. Э. Звенигородской, А. В. Мартыновой и др. — М.: Большая Российская энциклопедия, 2001. — 568 с.: ил. ISBN 978-5-85270-167-1
^ "Олег Анофриев (Oleg Anofriev)" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2007-11-23. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
^ Скончался Олег Анофриев
^ "Друг Олега Анофриева пытался соблазнить его супругу". EG.RU. Retrieved 2018-03-31.