Oleg Nikolayevich Yefremov (Russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Ефре́мов, 1 October 1927 – 24 May 2000) was a Soviet and Russian actor and Moscow Art Theatre producer. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1976) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1987). In 1949, he graduated from Moscow Art Theatre School and became an actor and later a producer of the Central Children Theater, started teaching at School-Studio by himself. Oleg Yefremov debuted as a film actor in the melodrama
The First Echelon in 1955. Since then he was regularly acting in films, and his every appearance on screen turned to be a real event for millions of spectators. Some of his most notable roles were in the films
The Alive and the Dead (1964), melodrama Three Poplars in Plyushchikha (1967),
Shine, Shine, My Star (1969), comedies
Aybolit-66 (1966), and Beware of the Car (1966). In 1956, having gathered around himself students and graduates of the School-Studio, bot...
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