Oleg Aleksandrovich Strizhenov (ru: Олег Александрович Стриженов)(b. August 10, 1929 in Blagoveshchensk

Blagoveshchensk

Blagoveshchensk is a city and the administrative center of Amur Oblast, Russia. Population: -Early history of the region:The early residents of both sides of the Amur in the region of today's Blagoveshchensk were the Daurs and Duchers...

 in the Russian Far East

Russian Far East

Russian Far East is a term that refers to the Russian part of the Far East, i.e., extreme east parts of Russia, between Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia and the Pacific Ocean...

) was a Soviet and Russian film actor and a People's Artist of the Soviet Union.

Filmography

He starred or appeared in more than 31 major films between 1951 and 2000 (with a break between 1987 and 2000), including films such as "Gadfly", "The Forty-first", Khozhdenie za tri morya ("The Journey Beyond Three Seas", also known as "The Traveler"), in which he played Afanasy Nikitin

Afanasy Nikitin

Afanasy Nikitin was a Russian merchant and one of the first Europeans to travel to and document his visit to India. He described his trip in a narrative known as The Journey Beyond Three Seas .-The voyage:In 1466, Nikitin left his hometown of Tver on a commercial trip to India...

; "The Captain's Daughter", "The Queen of Spades", "Ne podsuden", "Gospodin Velikyi Novgorod", "The Young Peter the Great," "Karl Marxs: The Early Years," and others.

Education, Career, and Family

Strizhenov completed the B. V. Shukin Higher Theater School in 1953 and from 1953 he was actor in the Russian Theater of Drama in Tallinn (in Estonia); From 1954-1955, he acted at the Pushkin Theater in Leningrad, and in 1957 he was at the Screen Actors Theater and Studio in Moscow. From 1966 to 1976 he acted at the Moscow Artists' and Actors' Theater.

Oleg Strizhenov has a Bacon number of 3 (Three Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon). Strizhenov was in Gospodin velikiy Novgorod (1984) with Alexander Kuznetsov, who was in Space Cowboys (2000) with Blair Brown, who was in Loverboy (2005) with Kevin Bacon.

Oleg's brother, Gleb

Gleb Strizhenov

Gleb Aleksandrovich Strizhenov was a Soviet actor, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR. He was born in Voronezh, USSR. Oleg Strizhenov, who is also an actor, was his brother.-Filmography:*Per Aspera Ad Astra*Garazh...

, was also an actor and a Distinguished Artist of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (1974). Gleb died in 1985. Oleg is the father of the Russian actor, writer, producer, and director Aleksandr Strizhenov.

Awards

For his performance in The Queen of Spades

The Queen of Spades (1960 film)

The Queen of Spades is a 1960 film adaptation of the opera The Queen of Spades, based on the Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name.The operatic parts were performed by Zurab Andzhaparidze, Tamara Milashkina, Yevgeny Kibkalo....

 (Pikovaia Dama)(1960), Strizhenov received the Large Pushkin Gold Medal and was named Laureate and winner of the Gold Medal of the Irina Arkhipova Fund Musical. He was voted best actor of the year in 1970 for his role as the pilot Egorov in "Nepodsuden". He was named a People's Artist of the Soviet Union in 1988.

Selected filmography

• Ovod
  Ovod (1955 film)
  The Gadfly is a 1955 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Fajntsimmer based on the novel The Gadfly by Ethel Lilian Voynich.-Cast:* Oleg Strizhenov as Arthur* Marina Strizhenova as Gemma* Nikolai Simonov as Cardinal Montanelli...
  
   (1955)
• The Forty-first
  The Forty-First (1956 film)
  The Forty-First, is a 1956 Soviet film based on the novel of the same name by Boris Lavrenyev. The film was directed by Grigori Chukhrai and starred Izolda Izvitskaya and Oleg Strizhenov...
  
   (1956)
• Mexican (1956)
• Journey Beyond Three Seas (1957)
• The Queen of Spades
  The Queen of Spades (1960 film)
  The Queen of Spades is a 1960 film adaptation of the opera The Queen of Spades, based on the Aleksandr Pushkin short story of the same name.The operatic parts were performed by Zurab Andzhaparidze, Tamara Milashkina, Yevgeny Kibkalo....
  
   (1960)
• Optimistic Tragedy
  Optimistic Tragedy (film)
  Optimistic Tragedy is a 1963 Soviet film directed by Samson Samsonov. It is based on the eponymous play by Vsevolod Vishnevsky and was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival....
  
   (1963)
• The Captivating Star of Happiness
  The Captivating Star of Happiness
  The Captivating Star of Happiness is a Soviet film. The title is an allusion to a line from a poem by Alexander Pushkin. It is a costume drama dedicated "to the women of Russia"....
  
  (1975)