Oleg Anofriyev


Oleg Andreyevich Anofriyev, PAR, was a Soviet and Russian theatre 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. He was widely popular in USSR and was honored with the title Honored Artist of the RSFSR and later, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.

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.

Death

Throughout his life, Anofriev suffered from coronary artery disease. He suffered a heart attack at the age of 35. In 2007, he underwent coronary artery bypass surgery. He died on 28 March 2018 in Moscow from severe heart disease.

Selected filmography

Actor

  • Behind Show Windows as Slava Sidorkin
  • A Girl with Guitar as Vanya Savushkin
  • A Simple Story as Agronomist
  • Scarlet Sails as Letika the seaman
  • Funny Stories as Fedka
  • Colleagues as Vladka Karpov
  • Tale About the Lost Time as old Petya
  • Friends and Years as Vadim Lyalin
  • Passing Through Moscow as Alik
  • Car, Violin and Blot the Dog as Accordion and electric guitar musician
  • Incognito from St. Petersburg as Bobchinsky/Singing voice for Ivan Khlestakov
  • The Turning Point as Vedeneyev's lawyer
  • Be My Husband as Spa visitor-veterinarian
  • Along Unknown Paths as Nightingale the Robber
  • After the Rain, on Thursday as King Avdey
  • One Second for a Feat as Gurenko
  • Gardes-Marines, Ahead! as Nolken the Swedish ambassador
  • A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines as Ballroom pianist
  • The Criminal Quartet as Matvey Iosifovich Feldman
  • Two Arrows. Stone Age Detective as Drummer
  • Back in the USSR as Taxi driver
  • Moscow Vacation as ''Plane commander''

    Voice

  • 1964: The Satin Street
  • 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''