Oleg Petrovich Zhakov (Russian: Олег Петрович Жаков; 1 April 1905 in Sarapul, Vyatka Governorate - 4 May 1988 in Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Krai) was a Soviet and Russian film actor.[1] He performed in more than sixty films between 1927 up to 1988. People's Artist of the USSR (1969).[2] Winner of USSR State Prize (1971) and the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1946).[2]
He graduated from the Leningrad College of Performing Arts (1929).[3]
He starred in more than a hundred films.[4]
After 1957 he lived in Pyatigorsk, where he died on May 4, 1988. He was buried at Krasnoslobodskoye Сemetery in Pyatigorsk.[5]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Looking for a Man | The Man | ||
| 1969 | By the Lake | Alexander Alexandrovich Barmin | ||
| 1968 | The Seven Cervi Brothers | Alcide Cervi | ||
| 1955 | The Shadow Near the Pier | Major Lyudov | ||
| 1954 | A Tale of the Forest Giant | Nikandr Petrovich Dudin | ||
| 1953 | Hostile Whirlwinds | Georgy Pyatakov | ||
| The Great Warrior Skanderbeg | Tanush Thopia | |||
| 1946 | The White Fang | Weedon Scott | ||
| In the Name of Life | Rozhdestvensky | |||
| 1944 | Ivan the Terrible (1944 film) | Heinrich von Staden | ||
| 1942 | The Murderers are Coming | captain | ||
| 1938 | The Great Citizen | Sergey Vasilevich Borovsky | ||
| Professor Mamlock | Rolf Mamlok | |||
| Peat-Bog Soldiers | Paul | |||
| 1937 | For the Soviet Motherland | Toivo Antikainen | ||
| 1936 | The Sailors of Kronstadt | Regiment Commander Draudin | ||
| 1930 | Wind in the Face | Boris | ||
| 1929 | The New Babylon | communard | ||
| 1927 | The Club of the Big Deed | Hussar | ||
| 1926 | The Overcoat | an official in the cloak |