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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]

Since 1957 he lived in Pyatigorsk, where he died on May 4, 1988. He was buried at Krasnoslobodskoye Сemetery in Pyatigorsk.^[3]

Selected filmography edit

Film
Year	Title	Role
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
1953	The Great Warrior Skanderbeg	Tanush Thopia
1946	The White Fang	Weedon Scott
1946	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

^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 759–760. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
^ ^a ^b Большая Советская Энциклопедия. Гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров, 3-е изд. Т. 9. Евклид — Ибсен. 1972. 624 стр., илл.; 43 л. илл. и карт. 1 карта-вкл.
^ ^a ^b Биография Олега Жакова
^ Олег Жаков. Ностальгия по-советскому