Alexey Nikolayevich Gribov (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ??????; 31 January [O.S.
18 January] 1902 — 26 November 1977) was a popular Soviet stage and film actor, "master of all types of Russian national character" mostly remembered for his comedy roles, as well as a pedagogue at the Moscow Art Theatre.
He starred in over 60 movies and was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1948, Hero of Socialist Labour in 1972 and awarded four Stalin Prizes (1942, 1946, 1951 and 1952).