Oleg Tabakov

Oleg Tabakov
Born	Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov 17 August 1935 (1935-08-17) (age 76) Saratov, USSR
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1956–present
Spouse	Lyudmila Krylova (1960–1994) Marina Zudina (1994–present)
Website
http://www.tabakov.ru/

Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov (Russian: Олег Павлович Табаков) (born 17 August 1935) is a Soviet and Russian actor and the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre.

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 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.

Movie career

Tabakov's movie career paralleled the theatrical. He was featured in Grigori Chukhrai'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.

Voice-over work

Tabakov has lend his distinctive, purr-like voice 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.

Selected filmography

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• 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 Dead (1964)
• War and Peace (1968) as Nikolai Rostov
• Gori, gori, moya zvezda (1969) as Iskremas/Cuckoo
• The Secret of the Iron Door (1970)
• Seventeen Instants of Spring (TV series) (1973) as Walter Schellenberg
• Mark Tven-protiv (TV movie) (1975) as Mark Twain
• The Worthiness of the Republic (1976)
• Lone Wolf (1977)
• D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) as King Louis XIII
• Three from Buttermilk Village (1978) as Matroskin the Cat (voice)
• Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears (1980) as Vladimir, Katerina's lover
• Oblomov (1981) as Ilya Ilyich Oblomov
• Meri Poppins, do svidaniya (TV movie) (1983) as Miss Andrew
• Dark Eyes (1986)
• A Man from the Boulevard des Capuchines (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)

References

• Oleg Tabakov at the Internet Movie Database
• Tabakov Theatre in Moscow
• Tabakov's webpage on the website of the Moscow Art Theatre
• Complete filmography

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Name	Tabakov, Oleg
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Date of birth	17 August 1935
Place of birth	Saratov, USSR
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