About Oleg Frelikh
Lived 1887 – 1953 (aged 66). Oleg Frelikh was a Russian actor, film director and theatre director.
Oleg Nikolayevich Frelikh (; 24 March 1887 – 6 September 1953) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and director. Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Biography
Oleg Frelikh was born on 24 March 1887 in Moscow. He graduated from the law faculty of the Moscow University and in 1911, the drama department of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. Before and after the revolution he worked as an actor of theater and cinema. Along the way in the mid-20s he started to direct films himself, filming mainly for national studios; Belgoskino, Chuvashcinema, Uzbekfilm, Vostokkino. In 1935, Frelikh became an actor of the Russian Army Theatre and in 1939 came to work at the Moscow State Theatre named after Lenin's Komsomol. On the stage of Lenkom he performed from 1939 to 1941 and then from 1943 to 1951. In total Oleg played in more than 50 films, mostly in silent pictures. He typically played slick adventurers, young and elegant characters. He died on 6 September 1953.
Selected filmography As actor 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘥 (1918) A Spectre Haunts Europe (1923) - the Emperor Locksmith and Chancellor (1923) - Leo von Turau Prostitute (1926) - passerby The Fall of Berlin (1949) - Franklin D. Roosevelt Zhukovsky (1950) - Aleksandr Stoletov
As director Prostitute (1926)
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Russian actor and film director (1887-1953)
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Oleg Frelikh was born on 12 March 1887 in Moscow.
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Oleg Frelikh died on 6 September 1953 in Moscow.
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Oleg Frelikh was an actor, film director and theatre director.
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Oleg Frelikh was Russian.
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