Do you like popular songs from the cartoon "Bremen Town Musicians"? Of course, love, but you probably don’t know that almost everything was performed by one person. His name is Oleg Anofriev.
We will tell 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 the war both in evacuation in Sverdlovsk and in Moscow. Even at school he became interested in theater, began to attend a drama club. I chose the profession of an artist for myself.
Oleg graduated from the Moscow Art Theater Studio in 1954 and began to work in the theater and cinema. The directors saw him as a talented singer and musician and began to invite 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. True, he did not manage to embody the roles of the main characters on the screen, but he did an excellent job with episodic and secondary parties, being able to tell about his character in a short episode so that it would be remembered by the audience.
Oleg Andreyevich has been in films since 1955. During this time, he played a young agronomist in the movie "Simple Story" with Nonna Mordyukova in the title role, the sailor Letika in "Scarlet Sails" by A. Green, the old wizard in "The Tale of Lost Time", a resting veteran in the movie "Be Mine husband! ”, King Avdey in the fairy tale“ After the Rain on Thursday ”, etc.
The artist played the last role in the movie in the last year of the outgoing century.
Work on cartoons and songs for films
Oleg Anofriev became famous as a unique singer, able to convey any character with his voice, starting from the hero of a serious film and ending with an animated image.
In the film "Sannikov Land" the main characters sing it with his voice. He sings songs in the film about Captain Nemo.
But, of course, the cartoons brought Oleg Andreevich the greatest popularity. The first of these is the “Bremen Town Musicians”, in which Anofriev played almost all parts - and Troubadour, and his animal friends, and the detective, and the king. Even a lively ataman sings in his voice.
A cartoon about a lion cub and a turtle? After all, Oleg Andreyevich also sings there. And again, both parties: a large and kind turtle, and its fiery red companion.
We all remember the musical cartoon of 1975, which is called "At the Port", it also has many heroes - a Russian boy, a Mexican, etc. Oleg Anofriev sings for all these heroes, he wants to listen to songs performed by the actor again and again.
It was Anofriev who sang the song for the program, Good Night. So his contribution to the development of Soviet animation is simply invaluable.
The value of the musician and actor
Oleg Andreevich was remembered by his audience as a songwriter and composer, as well as a very kind and cheerful person, family man and master. After all, the actor has a long-standing passion - he masters from sculpture wood. He has been doing this for a very long time, so the hobby has grown into a new profession. He decorated his country house, which is constantly away from Moscow noise, with a variety of handmade sculptures. Among them are figures of famous musicians from the city of Bremen.
Anofriev and music are inseparable concepts. After all, Oleg Andreevich is the author of more than 50 songs, romances to verses of Russian poets.
And today, despite his considerable age, the actor is not discouraged. He is working on memoirs in which he seeks to share with readers his memories of his life, the actors with whom fate has shared, to tell about his understanding of life and the place of each person in it.