Oleg Andreyevich Anofriyev (sometimes spelled as Oleg Anofriev, ; born 20 July 1930) is a Soviet and Russian stage

Theatre

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 and screen

Film

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 actor, voice actor, singer, songwriter, film director

Film director

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, poet. He was born in Gelendzhik

Gelendzhik

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, but spent all his life in Moscow

Moscow

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 and graduated from Moscow Art Theatre

Moscow Art Theatre

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 in 1954. He was widely popular in USSR (mostly due to the leading role in Town Musicians of Bremen animated film) and was honoured with the title People's Artist of the SFSR

People's Artist of the USSR

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Voice roles

• 1964: The Satin Street (Sitsevaya ulitsa)
• 1969: Town Musicians of Bremen
• 1973: A Tale of a Priest and His Workman Balda
• 1974: A №10 Tram was coming; How a Lion-cub and a Tortoise Sang a Song
• 1975: In the Port
• 1979: Very Blue Beard
  Very Blue Beard
  Very Blue Beard is a 1979 Soviet musical comedy animated film loosely based on the Bluebeard fairy tale by Charles Perrault. Directed by Vladimir Samsonov, screenplay by Arkady Arkanov. Cinematography by Vladimir Milovanov. Original music score by Gennady Gladkov. Lyrics by Yuliy Kim...
  
  

External links

• Oleg Anofriyev at animator.ru
  Animator.ru
  Animator.ru is a Russian website chronicling the films, people and studios of the animation industry in Russia, the former Soviet Union and the CIS. It also includes a forum, a news block, a photo-gallery and an animators labour exchange...