{{Infobox musical artist | name = Oleg Anofriyev | image = Oleg Anofriyev.jpg | caption = | image_size = | background = solo_singer | birth_name = Oleg Andreyevich Anofriyev | alias = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1930|7|20}} | birth_place = Gelendzhik, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|03|28|1930|7|20|df=y}} | death_place = Moscow, Russia | origin = | instrument = | genre = Pop | occupation = | years_active = 1955–2018 | label = | website = '''[http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/oleg_anofriev/ Oleg Anofriev's Diary]''' }} '''Oleg Andreyevich Anofriyev''' (sometimes spelled '''Anofriev''', {{langx|ru|link=no|Олег Андреевич Анофриев}}; 20 July 1930{{snd}}28 March 2018), PAR, was a Soviet and Russian theatre<ref name="rdt">Русский драматический театр: Энциклопедия / Под общ. ред. М. И. Андреева, Н. Э. Звенигородской, А. В. Мартыновой и др. — М.: Большая Российская энциклопедия, 2001. — 568 с.: ил. {{ISBN|978-5-85270-167-1}}</ref> and film actor, voice actor, singer, songwriter, film director, and poet. He was born in Gelendzhik, but spent all his life in Moscow and graduated from Moscow Art Theatre in 1954.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.geocities.com/rusatg/catalog/a/anofriev.htm | title=Олег Анофриев (Oleg Anofriev) | language=ru | access-date=2008-01-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071123100352/http://www.geocities.com/rusatg/catalog/a/anofriev.htm|archive-date=2007-11-23}}</ref> He was widely popular in USSR (mostly due to the leading role in ''The Bremen Town Musicians'' animated film) and was honored with the title Honored Artist of the RSFSR and later, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.<ref name="rdt"/>
==Biography== Oleg Andreyevich Anofriyev was born in Gelendzhik on 20 July 1930 in the family of a doctor, head of medical furniture at the GPP-1, Andrei Sergeyevich Anofriyev and housewife Maria Gavrilovna Anofriyeva and was their third son. He had two older brothers, Sergei and Vladimir. Although the family lived in Moscow, Oleg was born in Gelendzhik, because during the summer holiday season, Andrei received an appointment every year as chief physician in a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast (when Oleg was born, Andrei was the chief physician of the sanatorium of the Moscow State University).{{Citation needed|date=May 2026}}
==Death== Throughout his life, Anofriev suffered from coronary artery disease. He suffered a heart attack at the age of 35. In 2007, he underwent coronary artery bypass surgery.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Левон Оганезов: За два месяца до смерти Анофриев сказал, что хочет записать песню |url=https://sobesednik.ru/kultura-i-tv/20180424-levon-oganezov-za-dva-mesyaca-do-smerti-anofriev-skazal-chto-hochet-zapisat-pesnyu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241222102240/https://sobesednik.ru/kultura-i-tv/20180424-levon-oganezov-za-dva-mesyaca-do-smerti-anofriev-skazal-chto-hochet-zapisat-pesnyu |archive-date=2024-12-22 |access-date=2025-07-07 |website=sobesednik.ru |language=ru |url-status=live }}</ref> He died on 28 March 2018 in Moscow<ref>[http://www.starhit.ru/novosti/skonchalsya-oleg-anofriev-140148/ Скончался Олег Анофриев]</ref> from severe heart disease.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Друг Олега Анофриева пытался соблазнить его супругу|url=https://www.eg.ru/culture/495507/|work=EG.RU|access-date=2018-03-31}}</ref>
==Selected filmography==
=== Actor === * ''Behind Show Windows'' (За витриной универмага, 1955) as ''Slava Sidorkin'' * ''A Girl with Guitar'' (Девушка с гитарой, 1958) as ''Vanya Savushkin'' * ''A Simple Story'' (Простая история, 1960) as ''Agronomist'' * ''Scarlet Sails'' (Алые паруса, 1961) as ''Letika the seaman'' * ''Funny Stories'' (Весёлые истории, 1962) as ''Fedka'' * ''Colleagues'' (Коллеги, 1962) as ''Vladka Karpov'' *''Tale About the Lost Time'' (Сказка о потерянном времени, 1964) as ''old Petya'' * ''Friends and Years'' (Друзья и годы, 1965) as ''Vadim Lyalin'' * ''Passing Through Moscow'' (В Москве проездом..., 1970) as ''Alik'' * ''Car, Violin and Blot the Dog'' (Автомобиль, скрипка и собака Клякса, 1974) as ''Accordion and electric guitar musician'' * ''Incognito from St. Petersburg'' (Инкогнито из Петербурга, 1977) as ''Bobchinsky''/Singing voice for ''Ivan Khlestakov'' * ''The Turning Point'' (Поворот, 1978) as ''Vedeneyev's lawyer'' * ''Be My Husband'' (Будьте моим мужем, 1981) as ''Spa visitor-veterinarian'' * ''Along Unknown Paths'' (Там, на неведомых дорожках..., 1982) as ''Nightingale the Robber'' * ''After the Rain, on Thursday'' (После дождичка в четверг, 1985) as ''King Avdey'' * ''One Second for a Feat'' (Секунда на подвиг, 1985) as ''Gurenko'' * ''Gardes-Marines, Ahead!'' (Гардемарины, вперёд!, 1987) as ''Nolken the Swedish ambassador'' * ''A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines'' (Человек с бульвара Капуцинов, 1987) as ''Ballroom pianist'' * ''The Criminal Quartet'' (Криминальный квартет, 1989) as ''Matvey Iosifovich Feldman'' * ''Two Arrows. Stone Age Detective'' (Две стрелы. Детектив каменного века, 1989) as ''Drummer'' * ''Back in the USSR'' (Назад в СССР, 1992) as ''Taxi driver'' * ''Moscow Vacation'' (Московские каникулы, 1995) as ''Plane commander''
=== Voice === *1964: ''The Satin Street (Sitsevaya ulitsa)'' *1969: ''The Bremen Town Musicians'' *1973: ''A Tale of a Priest and His Workman Balda'' *1974: ''A №10 Tram was coming''; ''How a Lion-cub and a Tortoise Sang a Song''; ''The Land of Sannikov'' *1975: ''In the Port'' *1979: ''Very Blue Beard''
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==External links== *{{official website|http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/oleg_anofriev/}} {{in lang|ru}} *{{IMDb name|0030456}} *{{Find a Grave}} *{{MusicBrainz artist|64f41ee9-0098-4f4d-8521-050edffe3c83}} *[http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_person&pid=1162 Oleg Anofriyev] at animator.ru * {{in lang|ru}} [https://ar.culture.ru/en/subject/petya-zubov-starik The Role by Oleg Anofriev]
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