Nikolai Cherkasov
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 27, 1903
- Died
- September 14, 1966
- Birthplace
- St Petersburg, Russian Empire
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.
Filmography
Little Tragedies 1966
Actor
Nights of Farewell 1965
as Gedeonov
Мелодии Дунаевского 1963
Actor
All Remains to People 1963
as scientist Fyodor Dronov
Actor Nikolai Cherkasov 1959
as Himself
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot 1958
as Czar Ivan IV
Don Quixote 1957
as Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quixano
They Knew Mayakovsky 1955
Actor
Rimsky-Korsakov 1953
as Stasov
Mussorgsky 1950
as Vladimir Stasov
The Battle of Stalingrad 1949
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happy Sailing 1949
as kapitan Levashov
Alexander Popov 1949
as Aleksandr Popov
Ivan Pavlov 1949
as Maxim Gorky
Pirogov 1947
as Lyadov
New Home 1947
as Mikhail Andreevich Kostousov
Spring 1947
as Arkadi Mikhailovich Gromov
In the Name of Life 1946
as Lukich
Ivan the Terrible, Part I 1944
as Czar Ivan IV
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia 1943
as Alexander Nevsky
His Name Is Sukhe-Bator 1942
as baron von Ungern-Sternberg
Defense of Tsaritsyn 1942
Actor
60 Days 1940
Actor
Concert on the Screen 1940
Actor
Lenin in 1918 1939
as Maksim Gorky
Friends 1939
as осетин Бета
Alexander Nevsky 1938
as Alexander Nevsky
Peter the First, Part II 1938
as Prince Alexei
Treasure Island 1937
as Billy Bones
For the Soviet Motherland 1937
Actor
Peter the First, Part I 1937
as Prince Alexei
Baltic Deputy 1937
Actor
Capt. Grant's Family 1936
as Jacques Paganel
The Girlfriends 1936
as white officer (uncredited)
Frontier 1935
Actor
Hectic Days 1935
Actor
Happiness 1935
Actor
Crown Prince of the Republic 1934
as Waiter (uncredited)
Do I Love You? 1934
as Student
Moon on the Left 1929
as Kalugin
Brother 1929
Actor
His Excellency 1928
as Tall Clown
My Son 1928
as Pat
The Poet and the Tsar 1927
as Charles (uncredited)
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