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Nikolai Cherkasov

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.

Как уходили кумиры

2005

as Himself / ArchiveFootage

Nights of Farewell

1965

as Gedeonov

Мелодии Дунаевского

1963

All Remains to People

1963

as scientist Fyodor Dronov

Актёр Николай Черкасов

1959

as Himself

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

1958

as Czar Ivan IV

Don Quixote

1957

as Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quixano

They Knew Mayakovsky

1955

Rimsky-Korsakov

1953

as Stasov

Mussorgsky

1950

as Vladimir Stasov

The Battle of Stalingrad

1949

as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happy Sailing

1949

as kapitan Levashov

Alexander Popov

1949

Academician Ivan Pavlov

1949

as Maxim Gorky

Pirogov

1947

as Lyadov

New Home

1947

as Mikhail Andreevich Kostousov

Spring

1947

as Arkadi Mikhailovich Gromov

In the Name of Life

1946

as Lukich

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1944

as Czar Ivan IV

Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

1943

as Alexander Nevsky

The Invincible

1943

as Rodionov the father, a worker

His Name Is Sukhe-Bator

1942

as baron von Ungern-Sternberg

Defense of Tsaritsyn

1942

60 Days

1940

Концерт на экране

1940

Lenin in 1918

1939

as Maksim Gorky

Friends

1939

as осетин Бета

Alexander Nevsky

1938

as Alexander Nevsky

Peter the First, Part II

1938

as Prince Alexei

Treasure Island

1937

as Billy Bones

For the Soviet Motherland

1937

Peter the First, Part I

1937

as Prince Alexei

Baltic Deputy

1937

Capt. Grant's Family

1936

as Jacques Paganel

The Girlfriends

1936

as white officer (uncredited)

Granitsa

1935

Hectic Days

1935

Crown Prince of the Republic

1934

Happiness

1934

Moon on the Left

1929

as Kalugin

Brother

1929

His Excellency

1928

as Tall Clown

My Son

1928

as Pat

Little Tragedies