Soviet actor Oleg Vidov has died in his home in Westlake Village, California at the age of 73, his widow Joan Borsten said.
According to Borsten, her husband died of cancer complications, TASS reported.
Oleg Vidov appeared in some 50 films since 1960.
Even before moving to the United States in 1985, he appeared in many foreign films. While in the United States, he played in many Hollywood productions, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mickey Rourke, Warren Beattly and other Hollywood stars.
In 1988, Vidov and his wife co-founded a company to restore old Soviet animation films. They obtained international distribution rights to the award-winning Soyuzmultfilm Studio animation library in 1992 and helped popularize Russian animation around the world.
