Vladimir Osenev

Vladimir Ivanovich Osenev was a Soviet stage, film and voice actor. After graduating from Vakhtangov Theatre in the 1930s he had a stage career spanning four decades. Yet he was more noticed by his occasional appearances in films and animation series, such as the award-winning Winnie-the-Pooh trilogy. He also played in The Brothers Karamazov, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1969. Osenev was made an Honored Artist of Russia in 1956 and People's Artist of Russia in 1969.
Osenev considered himself a serious actor and first despised the "childish" text of the narrator in Winnie-the-Pooh, but changed his attitude after seeing the final result.

Filmography

Boule de Suif as German soldier The Great Glinka as episode Admiral Ushakov as city dweller Man without a Passport as Fyodor KatkoMajor Whirlwind as KrauchThe Seventh Companion as PriklonskyThe Shield and the Sword as HitlerThe Brothers Karamazov as judgeSubject for a Short Story as KurbatovWinnie-the-Pooh as Narrator The Flight as TikhiyWinnie-the-Pooh Pays a Visit as Narrator Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day as Narrator Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat as StopanskyAgony as Shturmer