Nikolai Cherkasov
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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
Credits
Don Quixote (1957)
as Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quixano
Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
as Czar Ivan IV
Alexander Nevsky (1938)
as Alexander Nevsky
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)
as Czar Ivan IV
All Remains to People (1963)
as scientist Fyodor Dronov
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia (1943)
as Alexander Nevsky
Alexander Popov (1949)
as Aleksandr Popov
Nights of Farewell (1965)
as Gedeonov
Concert on the Screen (1940)
Actor
Hectic Days (1935)
Actor
They Knew Mayakovsky (1955)
Actor
The Battle of Stalingrad (1949)
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
60 Days (1940)
Actor
Do I Love You? (1934)
as Student
Мелодии Дунаевского (1963)
Actor
Peter the First, Part II (1938)
as Prince Alexei
Lenin in 1918 (1939)
as Maksim Gorky
My Son (1928)
as Pat
Happiness (1935)
Actor
Spring (1947)
as Arkadi Mikhailovich Gromov
Moon on the Left (1929)
as Kalugin
Peter the First, Part I (1937)
as Prince Alexei
Pirogov (1947)
as Lyadov
His Excellency (1928)
as Tall Clown
Capt. Grant's Family (1936)
as Jacques Paganel
Mussorgsky (1950)
as Vladimir Stasov
Frontier (1935)
Actor
Brother (1929)
Actor
Treasure Island (1937)
as Billy Bones
The Girlfriends (1936)
as white officer (uncredited)
Defense of Tsaritsyn (1942)
Actor
Friends (1939)
as осетин Бета
For the Soviet Motherland (1937)
Actor
Ivan Pavlov (1949)
as Maxim Gorky
Happy Sailing (1949)
as kapitan Levashov
New Home (1947)
as Mikhail Andreevich Kostousov
Rimsky-Korsakov (1953)
as Stasov
His Name Is Sukhe-Bator (1942)
as baron von Ungern-Sternberg
In the Name of Life (1946)
as Lukich
Baltic Deputy (1937)
Actor
Crown Prince of the Republic (1934)
as Waiter (uncredited)
Actor Nikolai Cherkasov (1959)
as Himself
Little Tragedies (1966)
Actor
The Poet and the Tsar (1927)
as Charles (uncredited)
Ivan the Terrible, Part III (1948)
as Czar Ivan IV