Savely Viktorovich Kramarov (13 October 1934 – 6 June 1995) was one of the most popular comic actors of Soviet cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. He acted in at least 42 Soviet films, and later appeared in several more after his immigration to the United States of America. Savely Kramarov was born 13 October 1934 to Jewish parents: father Viktor Savelyevich Kramarov, a prominent Moscow attorney, and mother Benedikta Solomonovna "Basya" Kramarova (née Volchek). When young Savely was only three years old, the elder Kramarov represented some defendants in a widely publicized  Soviet secret police case. Within a year Savely's father was himself the victim of a "Stalinist purge" - his crime, representing his clients too vigorously. Arrested and tortured to confess, Savely's father was sentenced to a term of eight years in the Soviet Gulag. Savely's mother was forced to divorce his convict father, and mother and son lived for a time in a communal apartment. Before Victor Kramarov's prison term was up, young Savely's mother died, leaving him effectively an orphan. By a stroke of luck, she had managed to register him as Russian, not Jewish, on his domestic Soviet passport. Savely was once allowed to see his father prior to the elder Kramarov's exile in Biisk; during this meeting, his father, practically a stranger to him, told Savely of his Jewish faith that had sustained him in prison. In the 1950s, the once prominent attorney died in exile. Savely spent the remainder of his childhood in poverty, living with relatives, mainly his maternal uncles. During this time, Savely was diagnosed with tuberculosis; a Jewish physician helped him back to health.

In March 1995, Kramarov underwent what is normally routine surgery to remove a bowel tumor. As unexpected complications, he suffered debilitating strokes and eventually endocarditis. Kramarov died at Pacific Medical Center Hospital in San Francisco on 6 June 1995.

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