Oleg Tabakov
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Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov (born 17 August 1935) is a Soviet
and Russia
n actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre
.
. He administrated the Sovremennik until 1982, when he moved to the Moscow Art Theatre, where he has played Molière
and Salieri
for over 20 years.
In 1986, Tabakov persuaded his students to form the Tabakov Studio attached to the Moscow Art Theatre. Several notable Russian actors including Yevgeny Mironov
, Sergey Bezrukov, Vladimir Mashkov
and Alexandre Marine
studied at the studio. Tabakov also worked in numerous foreign countries, spreading his theatre's ideals
abroad.
's Clear Skies (1961), Sergei Bondarchuk
's War and Peace
(1968), TV series Seventeen Instants of Spring (1973) and D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
(1978), the Oscar-winning Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
(1980), Nikita Mikhalkov
's Oblomov
(1981) and Dark Eyes (1986), and the mock ostern
A Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines
(1987), among others.
to a number of animated characters, including the talking cat Matroskin in Three from Buttermilk Village
and its sequels. After the Matroskin role he dubbed the character of Garfield into Russian
in the feature film Garfield
.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
and Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre
Moscow Art Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow that the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, founded in 1898. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas...
.
Theatre career
Tabakov studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School. Upon graduating from the school, he became one of the founding fathers of the Sovremennik TheatreSovremennik Theatre
Moscow Sovremennik Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow founded in 1956. "Sovremennik" means "Contemporary".-History:Sovremennik Theatre was founded by a group of young Soviet actors during Khrushchev Thaw...
. He administrated the Sovremennik until 1982, when he moved to the Moscow Art Theatre, where he has played Molière
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
and Salieri
Antonio Salieri
Antonio Salieri was a Venetian classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy....
for over 20 years.
In 1986, Tabakov persuaded his students to form the Tabakov Studio attached to the Moscow Art Theatre. Several notable Russian actors including Yevgeny Mironov
Yevgeny Mironov (actor)
Yevgeny Mironov is a Russian film and stage actor, Meritorious Artist of Russian Federation , People's Artist of Russia , State Prize of the Russian Federation laureate . Yevgeny Mironov lives and works in Moscow, Russia.- Early life :Yevgeny Mironov was born in Saratov...
, Sergey Bezrukov, Vladimir Mashkov
Vladimir Mashkov
Vladimir Lvovich Mashkov is a Russian actor best known to Western audiences for his work in the 2001 film Behind Enemy Lines. Mashkov has also worked as a film director, producer and writer for the 2004 Russian film "Papa".-Theatre work:...
and Alexandre Marine
Alexandre Marine
Alexandre Marine is a Russian-born actor-director-playwright currently based in Montreal.. On April 23, 1993 he was recognized by the Russian government as a Distinguished Artist of the Russian Federation....
studied at the studio. Tabakov also worked in numerous foreign countries, spreading his theatre's ideals
Stanislavski System
Stanislavski's system is a progression of techniques used to train actors to draw believable emotions to their performances. The method that was originally created and used by Constantin Stanislavski from 1911-1916 was based on the concept of emotional memory for which an actor focuses internally...
abroad.
Movie career
Tabakov's movie career paralleled the theatrical. He was featured in Grigori ChukhraiGrigori Chukhrai
Grigori Naumovich Chukhrai was a prominent Soviet film director and screenwriter. He is the father of director Pavel Chukhrai.-Career:He was born in Melitopol in the Zaporizhia Oblast of Ukraine...
's Clear Skies (1961), Sergei Bondarchuk
Sergei Bondarchuk
Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and actor.- Biography :Born in Belozerka, in the Kherson Governorate, Sergei Bondarchuk spent his childhood in the cities of Yeysk and Taganrog, graduating from the Taganrog School Number 4 in 1938. His first performance as an...
's War and Peace
War and Peace (1968 film)
War and Peace is a Soviet-produced film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. Sergei Bondarchuk directed the film, co-wrote the screenplay and also acted in the lead role of Pierre. It was produced over a seven year period and released in four parts between 1965 and...
(1968), TV series Seventeen Instants of Spring (1973) and D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers is a three-part musical miniseries produced in the Soviet Union and first aired in 1978. It is based on the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père....
(1978), the Oscar-winning Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
Moscow Does not Believe in Tears is a 1980 Soviet film made by Mosfilm. It was written by Valentin Chernykh and directed by Vladimir Menshov. The leading roles were played by Menshov's wife Vera Alentova and by Aleksey Batalov. The film won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in...
(1980), Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union.Mikhalkov was born in Moscow into the distinguished, artistic Mikhalkov family. His great grandfather was the imperial governor of Yaroslavl, whose mother was a Galitzine princess...
's Oblomov
Oblomov
Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature...
(1981) and Dark Eyes (1986), and the mock ostern
Ostern
The Ostern or Red Western was the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries' take on the Western.It generally took two forms:...
A Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines
A Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines
A Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines is a Red Western comedy film of 1987 , with nods to silent film and the transforming power of celluloid....
(1987), among others.
Voice-over work
Tabakov has lend his distinctive, purr-like voiceVoice acting
Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters and radio and audio dramas and comedy, as well as doing voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides.Performers are called...
to a number of animated characters, including the talking cat Matroskin in Three from Buttermilk Village
Three from Buttermilk Village
Three from Prostokvashino is a 1978 Soviet iconic animated film based on the children's book Uncle Fyodor, His Dog and His Cat by Eduard Uspensky...
and its sequels. After the Matroskin role he dubbed the character of Garfield into Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
in the feature film Garfield
Garfield (film)
Garfield: The Movie, also known as Garfield, is a 2004 American live-action film based on the Jim Davis comic strip with the same name. In the film, Garfield the cat was created with computer-generated imagery, though all other animals were real...
.
Selected filmography
- Sasha vstupayet v zhizn (1956) as Sasha
- Delo Pyostrykh (1958) as Igor Peresvetov
- Shumnyy den (1960) as Oleg
- Clear Skies (1961) as Seryozhka
- The Alive and the DeadThe Alive and the DeadThe Alive and the Dead is a 1964 Soviet film directed by Aleksandr Stolper based on the eponymous novel by Konstantin Simonov.-Cast:* Kirill Lavrov - Ivan Sinzov* Viktor Avdyushko* Anatoli Papanov - General Serpilin* Aleksei Glazyrin - Malinin...
(1964) - War and PeaceWar and Peace (1968 film)War and Peace is a Soviet-produced film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. Sergei Bondarchuk directed the film, co-wrote the screenplay and also acted in the lead role of Pierre. It was produced over a seven year period and released in four parts between 1965 and...
(1968) as Nikolai RostovNikolai RostovCount Nikolai Ilyitch Rostov is a character in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace.-Brief background:... - Gori, gori, moya zvezda (1969) as Iskremas/Cuckoo
- The Secret of the Iron DoorThe Secret of the Iron DoorThe Secret of the Iron Door is a 1970 Soviet children's film directed by Mikhail Yuzovsky after a screenplay by Aleksandr Rejzhevsky loosely based on a story Wizard walked through the city by Yuri Tomin. Produced by Gorky Film Studio. Runtime - 69 min.Cinematography by Vitaly Grishin. Music by...
(1970) - Seventeen Instants of Spring (TV series) (1973) as Walter SchellenbergWalter SchellenbergWalther Friedrich Schellenberg was a German SS-Brigadeführer who rose through the ranks of the SS to become the head of foreign intelligence following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944.-Biography:...
- Mark Tven-protiv (TV movie) (1975) as Mark TwainMark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
- The Worthiness of the Republic (1976)
- Lone WolfLone Wolf (film)Lone Wolf is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Roman Balayan. It was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Mikhail Golubovich - Biryuk* Oleg Tabakov - Bersenev* Yelena Khrol - Ulita...
(1977) - D'Artagnan and Three MusketeersD'Artagnan and Three Musketeersd'Artagnan and Three Musketeers is a three-part musical miniseries produced in the Soviet Union and first aired in 1978. It is based on the novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père....
(1978) as King Louis XIII - Three from Buttermilk VillageThree from Buttermilk VillageThree from Prostokvashino is a 1978 Soviet iconic animated film based on the children's book Uncle Fyodor, His Dog and His Cat by Eduard Uspensky...
(1978) as Matroskin the Cat (voice) - Moscow Does Not Believe In TearsMoscow Does Not Believe In TearsMoscow Does not Believe in Tears is a 1980 Soviet film made by Mosfilm. It was written by Valentin Chernykh and directed by Vladimir Menshov. The leading roles were played by Menshov's wife Vera Alentova and by Aleksey Batalov. The film won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in...
(1980) as Vladimir, Katerina's lover - OblomovOblomovOblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature...
(1981) as Ilya Ilyich Oblomov - Meri Poppins, do svidaniya (TV movie) (1983) as Miss Andrew
- Dark Eyes (1986)
- A Man from the Boulevard des CapuchinesA Man from the Boulevard des CapuchinesA Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines is a Red Western comedy film of 1987 , with nods to silent film and the transforming power of celluloid....
(1987) as Harry - Yesenin (TV series) (2005) as General Simagin
- Statskiy sovetnik (2005) as Prince Dolgoroukoy
- Ilya Muromets i Solovey Razboynik (2007) as Vasilevs (voice)
- Melody for a Street Organ (2009)