Oleg Anofriev - a man and a musician with a capital letter

Do you like popular songs from the cartoon "Bremen Musicians"? Of course, love, but probably do not know that almost all performed by one person. His name is Oleg Anofriev.

Let's talk about this actor, singer and his creative path.

short biography

Oleg Anofriev was born in the city of Gelendzhik in 1930, his father was a doctor in the sanatorium of this resort town. Oleg was the youngest of three brothers in an intelligent family, where they always loved music.

The future people's artist lived as a war in the evacuation in Sverdlovsk, and in Moscow. Even at school I got carried away by theater, began to attend a drama club. I chose the profession of an artist for myself.

Oleg graduated from the Moscow Art Theater in 1954 and began to work in the theater and cinema. Directors saw him as a talented singer and musician and began to be invited to sing songs in films and play small roles.

Oleg Anofriev is married, has a daughter and two granddaughters.

In 2004, the actor was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist.

Oleg Anofriev: biography as a filmography

The filmography of the actor is very extensive. He, however, failed to translate the role of protagonists on the screen, but he coped well with episodic and minor parties, knowing in a brief episode to tell about his character so that he would remember the audience.

In the movie, Oleg Andreevich was removed from 1955. During this time, he played a young agronomist in the film "A Simple Story" with Nona Mordyukova in the lead role, sailor Letica in Scarlet Sails by A. Green, an old wizard in The Tale of Lost Time, a resting veteran in the film "Be My Husband! ", King Avdey in the fairy tale" After the rain on Thursday ", etc.

The last role in the cinema was performed by the artist in the last year of the passing century.

Work on cartoons and songs for films

Oleg Anofriev became famous as a unique singer, able to convey any character from his voice, beginning with the hero of a serious film and ending with a cartoon.

In the film "The Land of Sannikov" it is his voice that the main characters sing. He also sings songs in the film about Captain Nemo.

But, of course, the greatest popularity of Oleg Andreevich brought cartoons. The first of them is "The Bremen Musicians", in which Anofriev performed almost all the parts - and Troubadour, and his friends-beasts, and the detective, and the king. Even a brisk ataman sings in his voice.

A cartoon about a lion cub and a turtle? After all, there, too, sings Oleg Andreevich. And again, both parties: the big and kind tortoise, and its fiery reddish companion.

We all remember the 1975 musical cartoon called "In the Port", it also has many heroes - a Russian boy, a Mexican, etc. For all these heroes, Oleg Anofriev sings, songs in the performance of the actor wants to listen again and again.

Even Anofriev sang the song for the transfer of "Quiet Night". So his contribution to the development of Soviet animation is simply invaluable.

The meaning of the musician and actor

Oleg Andreyevich remembered his audience as a songwriter and composer-performer, as well as a very kind and cheerful person, a family man and a master. After all, the actor has a long-time passion - he is sculpting wood from a sculpture. Engaged in this very long time, so the hobby grew into a new profession. His country house, which lives constantly away from Moscow's noise, he decorated with various hand-made sculptures. There are among them figures of famous musicians from the city of Bremen.

Anofriev and music are inseparable. After all, Oleg Andreyevich is the author of more than 50 songs, romances for verses of Russian poets.

And today, despite his considerable age, the actor is not discouraged. He is working on memoirs in which he is eager to share his memories of his life, the actors with whom his fate reduced him, to tell about his understanding of life and the place in him of each person.