Nikolai Cherkasov
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 27, 1903
- Died
- September 14, 1966 (aged 63)
- Birthplace
- St Petersburg, Russian Empire
Biography
An outstanding Soviet theater and film actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1937). People's Artist of the RSFSR (03/11/1939). People's Artist of the USSR (02.26.1947). He graduated from the Institute of Performing Arts (1926). Since 1919 - a mimic artist of the Petrograd Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theater, the Bolshoi Drama Theater and other theaters. In the years 1926-1929 - actor of the Leningrad Youth Theater. In 1929-1931 - artist of the Leningrad and Moscow music halls. In the years 1931-1933 - artist of the Leningrad Mobile Theater "Comedy". In 1933-1965 - artist of the Leningrad Academic Drama Theater named after Pushkin. Nikolai Cherkasov is the only actor whose face is imprinted on the order. Stalin personally chose and approved the portrait of Cherkasov for one of the highest state awards - the Soviet Order of Alexander Nevsky. Member of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR 1-2 convocations. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 3-4 convocations (1950-1958). Chairman of the Leningrad branch of the WTO (since 1948). Member of the Soviet Peace Committee (since 1949). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1940. September 14, Nikolai Konstantinovich died at the 64th year of life. When the great actor passed away, one of his students said that he died not from heart failure, but from insufficient heartiness... The actor was buried in the Necropolis of Artists of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Leningrad. July 27, 1970 the name of Cherkasov was assigned to one of the streets in Leningrad.
Known For
Photos
Filmography
When Idols Were Gone
TV · as Himself / ArchiveFootage · 1 ep
Little Tragedies
Movie
Nights of Farewell
Movie · as Gedeonov
Мелодии Дунаевского
Movie
All Remains to People
Movie · as scientist Fyodor Dronov
Actor Nikolai Cherkasov
Movie · as Himself
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Movie · as Czar Ivan IV
Don Quixote
Movie · as Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quixano
They Knew Mayakovsky
Movie
Rimsky-Korsakov
Movie · as Stasov
Mussorgsky
Movie · as Vladimir Stasov
The Battle of Stalingrad
Movie · as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ivan Pavlov
Movie · as Maxim Gorky
Happy Sailing
Movie · as kapitan Levashov
Alexander Popov
Movie · as Aleksandr Popov
Spring
Movie · as Arkadi Mikhailovich Gromov
Pirogov
Movie · as Lyadov
New Home
Movie · as Mikhail Andreevich Kostousov
In the Name of Life
Movie · as Lukich
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Movie · as Czar Ivan IV
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
Movie · as Alexander Nevsky
His Name Is Sukhe-Bator
Movie · as baron von Ungern-Sternberg
Defense of Tsaritsyn
Movie
Concert on the Screen
Movie
60 Days
Movie
Friends
Movie · as осетин Бета
Lenin in 1918
Movie · as Maksim Gorky
Alexander Nevsky
Movie · as Alexander Nevsky
Peter the First, Part II
Movie · as Prince Alexei
Peter the First, Part I
Movie · as Prince Alexei
Treasure Island
Movie · as Billy Bones
Baltic Deputy
Movie
For the Soviet Motherland
Movie
Capt. Grant's Family
Movie · as Jacques Paganel
The Girlfriends
Movie · as white officer (uncredited)
Frontier
Movie
Happiness
Movie
Hectic Days
Movie
Crown Prince of the Republic
Movie · as Waiter (uncredited)
Do I Love You?
Movie · as Student
Brother
Movie
Moon on the Left
Movie · as Kalugin
His Excellency
Movie · as Tall Clown
My Son
Movie · as Pat
The Poet and the Tsar
Movie · as Charles (uncredited)