Nikolai Cherkasov
Date of birth: 1903-07-27
Place of birth: St Petersburg, Russian Empire
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Nikolay Cherkasov, Николай Черкасов, Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov, Nikolai Tscherkassow
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.
Movie Credits
Alexander Nevsky
1938-11-24
When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formi
Concert on the Screen
1940-01-01
Film-Concert. The program includes scenes from plays, ballets, and operas; folk songs and romances;
Frontier
1935-09-25
The residents of the village of Staroje Dudino, located four kilometers west of the Soviet border, a
Актёр Николай Черкасов
1959-07-27
About the creative career of People's Artist of the USSR N.K. Cherkasov. The film uses footage from
Мелодии Дунаевского
1963-12-30
The film uses fragments of feature films and materials of the Gosfilmofond of the Russian Federation
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1944-11-11
Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closes
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
1958-10-10
This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertake
In the Name of Life
1946-06-06
Three friends, three young surgeons, returning from war, begin working on a complex medical problem.
Mussorgsky
1950-11-27
Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mus
Rimsky-Korsakov
1953-08-24
Biographical film about the composer Rimskiy-Korsakov. Belongs to the gallery of costume historical
Nights of Farewell
1965-11-16
Paris, the middle of the XIX century. Young Marius Petipa is going on a long journey to St. Petersbu
Don Quixote
1957-05-23
Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote
Happiness
1935-03-15
A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired
Spring
1947-07-02
A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-a
All Remains to People
1963-12-28
Renowned scientist Dronov works in Novosibirsk on the creation of ultra-modern engine. He has a bad
Peter the First, Part I
1937-08-30
This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Re
Peter the First, Part II
1938-08-22
Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to overth
The Battle of Stalingrad
1949-11-11
A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. Th
Capt. Grant's Family
1936-06-06
The son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an incomplete
His Excellency
1928-03-20
This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction
Friends
1939-01-01
The Soviet classic based on the biography of one of the main October Revolution leaders - Sergey Kir
Lenin in 1918
1939-04-06
Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin’s activities in the first years after the Great October Re
Academician Ivan Pavlov
1949-02-21
Russia, 1875: In Riazan’, Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the inevitabil
Little Tragedies
1966-02-06
Leningrad State Drama Theatre's staging of Pushkin's three "Little Tragedies": The Covetous Knight,
Treasure Island
1937-12-20
An adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" with drastic changes to the plot. A grou
They Knew Mayakovsky
1955-06-19
Brother
1929-01-01
The chairman of the factory committee of one of the Leningrad factories, Fyodor Gorbachev, a weak-wi
Moon on the Left
1929-02-02
The main character, the chairman of the district revolutionary tribunal, Comrade Kovalev, believes t
The Invincible
1943-01-21
The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed at a
60 Days
1940-05-02
Adventures of the medicine professor during reserve duty.
Pirogov
1947-12-16
A biopic based on the life of Russian scientist and doctor Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov (1810-1881), fa
Happy Sailing
1949-10-27
A story about boys in a sailors school.
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
1943-11-13
The fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and proces
Baltic Deputy
1937-03-27
A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge and O
For the Soviet Motherland
1937-10-26
The film takes place in 1921 on the Soviet-Finnish border. Shyutskorov detachments broke into Kareli
Crown Prince of the Republic
1934-12-12
After news of the future birth of a child, Sergei split from his wife, Natasha, and settled in the c
My Son
1928-01-01
A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby.
Hectic Days
1935-05-01
A Soviet comedy about a charming womanizer.
New Home
1947-09-10
Alexander Popov
1949-05-03
A biographical film about the life and work of the outstanding physicist-electrical engineer, invent
His Name Is Sukhe-Bator
1942-10-12
The film tells about the founder of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the leader of the Mo
The Girlfriends
1936-02-19
Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware
Defense of Tsaritsyn
1942-03-29
Propaganda film enhancing the role of I.V. Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn (subsequen
Царицын. Поход Ворошилова
1942-03-29
The film takes us back to the summer of 1918 and tells the story of how Voroshilov, under the noses