Oleg Yefremov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Oleg Yefremov

Soviet and Russian actor and theatre director

Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1927

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 24-May-2000

Profession: actor, drama teacher, film director, theater director, film actor

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Oleg Nikolayevich Yefremov (Russian: ???´? ??????´???? ????´???, 1 October 1927, Moscow, Soviet Union – 24 May 2000, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet/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 Plyushcikha (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, both his coevals and pupils, Oleg Yefremov organized the Studio of Young Actors (subsequently — the Moscow famous Sovremennik Theater and became its first director.
Since 1970 he was an actor and a Chief Producer of the Moscow Art Theatre named after Maxim Gorky.
In 1976 the actor became a Professor of Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio.