Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 27, 1903
Died
Sep 14, 1966
Place of Birth
St Petersburg, Russian Empire
Credits
45 titles
Nikolai Cherkasov
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
Filmography
When Idols Were Gone
Himself / ArchiveFootage
Little Tragedies
Nights of Farewell
Gedeonov
Мелодии Дунаевского
All Remains to People
scientist Fyodor Dronov
Актёр Николай Черкасов
Himself
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Czar Ivan IV
Don Quixote
Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quixano
They Knew Mayakovsky
Rimsky-Korsakov
Stasov
Mussorgsky
Vladimir Stasov
The Battle of Stalingrad
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happy Sailing
kapitan Levashov
Alexander Popov
Aleksandr Popov
Ivan Pavlov
Maxim Gorky
Pirogov
Lyadov
New Home
Mikhail Andreevich Kostousov
Spring
Arkadi Mikhailovich Gromov
In the Name of Life
Lukich
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Czar Ivan IV
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
Alexander Nevsky
His Name Is Sukhe-Bator
baron von Ungern-Sternberg
Defense of Tsaritsyn
60 Days
Concert on the Screen
Lenin in 1918
Maksim Gorky
Friends
осетин Бета
Alexander Nevsky
Alexander Nevsky
Peter the First, Part II
Prince Alexei
Treasure Island
Billy Bones
For the Soviet Motherland
Peter the First, Part I
Prince Alexei
Baltic Deputy
Capt. Grant's Family
Jacques Paganel
The Girlfriends
white officer (uncredited)
Frontier
Hectic Days
Happiness
Crown Prince of the Republic
Waiter (uncredited)
Do I Love You?
Student
Moon on the Left
Kalugin
Brother
His Excellency
Tall Clown
My Son
Pat
The Poet and the Tsar
Charles (uncredited)