Oleg Zhakov

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Oleg Petrovich Zhakov ({{langx|ru|Олег Петрович Жаков}}; 1 April 1905 – 4 May 1988) was a Soviet and Russian film actor who was born in Sarapul, Vyatka Governorate.{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman / Littlefield|year=2009|place=US|isbn=978-0-8108-6072-8|pages=759–760}} He performed in more than sixty films between 1927 up to 1988. People's Artist of the USSR (1969).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. Winner of USSR State Prize (1971) and the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1946).[https://bigenc.ru/c/zhakov-oleg-petrovich-4930e6 Жаков Олег Петрович]. bigenc.ru

He graduated from the Leningrad College of Performing Arts (1929).

He starred in more than a hundred films.[http://1001material.ru/995.html Олег Жаков. Ностальгия по-советскому]. 1001material.ru

After 1957 he lived in Pyatigorsk, where he died on May 4, 1988. He was buried at Krasnoslobodskoye Сemetery in Pyatigorsk.[http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/sov/1475/bio/ Биография Олега Жакова]. kino-teatr.ru

Selected filmography

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Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
1973 \|Looking for a Man \|The Man \|
1969 \|By the Lake \|Alexander Alexandrovich Barmin \|
1968 \|The Seven Cervi Brothers \|Alcide Cervi \|
1955 \|The Shadow Near the Pier \|Major Lyudov \|
1954 \|A Tale of the Forest Giant \|Nikandr Petrovich Dudin \|
rowspan="2"\| 1953 \|Hostile Whirlwinds \|Georgy Pyatakov \|
The Great Warrior Skanderbeg \|Tanush Thopia
1948 \|The Precious Seed \|Ivashin \|
rowspan="2"\| 1946 \|The White Fang \|Weedon Scott \|
In the Name of Life \|Rozhdestvensky
1944 \|Ivan the Terrible \|Heinrich von Staden \|
1942 \|The Murderers are Coming \|captain \|
rowspan="3"\| 1938 \|The Great Citizen \|Sergey Vasilevich Borovsky \|
Professor Mamlock \|Rolf Mamlok \|
Peat-Bog Soldiers \|Paul \|
1937 \|For the Soviet Motherland \|Toivo Antikainen \|
1936 \|The Sailors of Kronstadt \|Regiment Commander Draudin \|
1930 \|Wind in the Face \|Boris \|
1929 \|The New Babylon \|communard \|
1927 \|The Club of the Big Deed \|Hussar \|
1926 \|The Overcoat \|an official in the cloak \|

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Year

! Title

! Role

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1973

|Looking for a Man

|The Man

1969

|By the Lake

|Alexander Alexandrovich Barmin