1. Oleg Nikolayevich Yefremov was a Soviet and Russian actor and Moscow Art Theatre producer.
16 Facts About Oleg Yefremov
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Oleg Yefremov was a People's Artist of the USSR and a Hero of Socialist Labour.
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Oleg Yefremov debuted as a film actor in the melodrama The First Echelon in 1955.
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Oleg Nikolayevich Yefremov was born on 1 October 1927 in Moscow.
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Oleg Yefremov's father was Nikolai Ivanovich Yefremov, his mother Anna Dmitrievna Efremova.
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Oleg Yefremov grew up in a large communal apartment on the Arbat Street.
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Oleg Yefremov's father served as an accountant in the Gulag system, and the future actor spent a part of his adolescence in the Vorkutlag camps, where he became closely acquainted with the criminal world.
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In childhood Yefremov attended a drama club at the House of Pioneers.
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Oleg Yefremov graduated from the School of the Moscow Art Theatre School in 1949.
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From 1949 to 1956, Oleg Yefremov worked at the Central Children's Theater, where he played more than 20 roles, including Ivan, Coviel, Kostya Poletayev, Alexey.
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In 1956, Oleg Yefremov organized the "Young Actors Studio" and became the artistic director of the theater.
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In 1970, Oleg Yefremov became the chief director of the Moscow Art Theater.
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Oleg Yefremov played about 70 roles in feature and television films, the most famous of which are: The First Echelon by Mikhail Kalatozov, The Soldiers were Advancing by Leonid Trauberg, The Alive and the Dead by Alexander Stolper, Someone Is Ringing, Open the Door by Alexander Mitta, Beware of the Car by Eldar Ryazanov, Three Poplars in Plyushchikha by Tatyana Lioznova and Battalions ask for Fire by Vladimir Chebotarev and Alexander Bogolyubov.
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Since 1949, Oleg Yefremov taught acting in the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio, produced several acting and director's courses, was a professor and head of the acting department.
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Oleg Yefremov was one of the founders and the first secretary of the board of the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation.
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Oleg Yefremov was married to Sovremennik Theatre actor Alla Pokrovskaya.