People's Artist of the USSR (1976), Hero of Socialist Labour (1987).
Oleg Yefremov was married to Sovremennik Theatre actress Alla Pokrovskaya. Their son Mikhail also an actor.
In 1949 he graduated from Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio and became an actor and later a producer of the Central Children Theater, started teaching at School-Studio by himself.
Oleg Yefremov debuted as a film actor in the melodrama The First Echelon (Pervyy eshelon) in 1955. Since then he was regularly into filming, and hi