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 "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
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- 2005 · Как уходили кумиры as Himself / ArchiveFootage
- 1965 · Nights of Farewell as Gedeonov
- 1963 · Мелодии Дунаевского as
- 1963 · All Remains to People as scientist Fyodor Dronov
- 1959 · Актёр Николай Черкасов as Himself
- 1958 · Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot as Czar Ivan IV
- 1957 · Don Quixote as Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quixano
- 1955 · They Knew Mayakovsky as
- 1953 · Rimsky-Korsakov as Stasov
- 1950 · Mussorgsky as Vladimir Stasov
- 1949 · The Battle of Stalingrad as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1949 · Happy Sailing as kapitan Levashov
- 1949 · Alexander Popov as
- 1949 · Academician Ivan Pavlov as Maxim Gorky
- 1947 · Pirogov as Lyadov
- 1947 · New Home as Mikhail Andreevich Kostousov
- 1947 · Spring as Arkadi Mikhailovich Gromov
- 1946 · In the Name of Life as Lukich
- 1944 · Ivan the Terrible, Part I as Czar Ivan IV
- 1943 · Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia as Alexander Nevsky
- 1943 · The Invincible as Rodionov the father, a worker
- 1942 · His Name Is Sukhe-Bator as baron von Ungern-Sternberg
- 1942 · Defense of Tsaritsyn as
- 1940 · 60 Days as
- 1940 · Концерт на экране as
- 1939 · Lenin in 1918 as Maksim Gorky
- 1939 · Friends as осетин Бета
- 1938 · Alexander Nevsky as Alexander Nevsky
- 1938 · Peter the First, Part II as Prince Alexei
- 1937 · Treasure Island as Billy Bones
- 1937 · For the Soviet Motherland as
- 1937 · Peter the First, Part I as Prince Alexei
- 1937 · Baltic Deputy as
- 1936 · Capt. Grant's Family as Jacques Paganel
- 1936 · The Girlfriends as white officer (uncredited)
- 1935 · Granitsa as
- 1935 · Hectic Days as
- 1934 · Crown Prince of the Republic as
- 1934 · Happiness as
- 1929 · Moon on the Left as Kalugin
- 1929 · Brother as
- 1928 · His Excellency as Tall Clown
- 1928 · My Son as Pat
- Future · Little Tragedies as