Oleg Dal

Oleg Dal
Dal on a 2016 Russian postcard
Born
Oleg Ivanovich Dal

(1941-05-25)25 May 1941
Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died3 March 1981(1981-03-03) (aged 39)
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Occupation(s)Actor, poet, dramatist
Years active1962–1981

Oleg Ivanovich Dal (Russian: Олег Иванович Даль; 25 May 1941 – 3 March 1981) was a Soviet Russian stage and film actor.

He acted in films, from classics of drama to fairy tales and adventures. His most popular works included Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha (1967), Chronicles of a Dive Bomber (1967), An Old, Old Tale (1970), King Lear (1971), On Thursday and Never Again (1977), September Vacation (1979). Dal played his last cinema role in Uninvited Friend by Leonid Maryagin in 1981.

He worked in the Sovremennik Theatre (1963–1971, 1973–1975) and in the Malaia Bronnaia Theatre (1975–1978).