Nikolai Cherkasov
Known for Acting · 45 credits
- Born
- 1903-07-27
- Died
- 1966-09-14
- Place of birth
- St Petersburg, Russian Empire
- Also known as
- Nikolay Cherkasov · Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov · Nikolai Tscherkassow · N. Cherkasov · Н. Черкасов
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
TV Shows (1)
Movies (44)
Happiness
1935
Don Quixote
1957
as Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quixano
My Son
1928
as Pat
Crown Prince of the Republic
1934
as Waiter (uncredited)
Hectic Days
1935
His Excellency
1928
as Tall Clown
Мелодии Дунаевского
1963
Alexander Nevsky
1938
as Alexander Nevsky
Spring
1947
as Arkadi Mikhailovich Gromov
They Knew Mayakovsky
1955
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1944
as Czar Ivan IV
Moon on the Left
1929
as Kalugin
All Remains to People
1963
as scientist Fyodor Dronov
Happy Sailing
1949
as kapitan Levashov
60 Days
1940
Concert on the Screen
1940
Frontier
1935
Do I Love You?
1934
as Student
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
1943
as Alexander Nevsky
Brother
1929
Alexander Popov
1949
as Aleksandr Popov
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
1958
as Czar Ivan IV
Nights of Farewell
1965
as Gedeonov
The Battle of Stalingrad
1949
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Актёр Николай Черкасов
1959
as Himself
Lenin in 1918
1939
as Maksim Gorky
Peter the First, Part I
1937
as Prince Alexei
Baltic Deputy
1937
In the Name of Life
1946
as Lukich
Mussorgsky
1950
as Vladimir Stasov
Rimsky-Korsakov
1953
as Stasov
The Girlfriends
1936
as white officer (uncredited)
Capt. Grant's Family
1936
as Jacques Paganel
His Name Is Sukhe-Bator
1942
as baron von Ungern-Sternberg
Treasure Island
1937
as Billy Bones
Ivan Pavlov
1949
as Maxim Gorky
Little Tragedies
1966
Peter the First, Part II
1938
as Prince Alexei
The Poet and the Tsar
1927
as Charles (uncredited)
Friends
1939
as осетин Бета
Defense of Tsaritsyn
1942
Pirogov
1947
as Lyadov
New Home
1947
as Mikhail Andreevich Kostousov
For the Soviet Motherland
1937
About Nikolai Cherkasov
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 "Comed… With 45 credits spanning from 1927 to 2005, Nikolai Cherkasov has appeared in 44 films and 1 TV show.
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- Happiness (1935)
- Don Quixote (1957) — as Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quixano
- My Son (1928) — as Pat
- Crown Prince of the Republic (1934) — as Waiter (uncredited)
- Hectic Days (1935)
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