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
When Idols Were Gone
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Alexander Nevsky
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Don Quixote
Rimsky-Korsakov
The Battle of Stalingrad
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
All Movies (44)
- Little Tragedies1966
- Nights of Farewell1965 · as Gedeonov
- Мелодии Дунаевского1963
- All Remains to People1963 · as scientist Fyodor Dronov
- Актёр Николай Черкасов1959 · as Himself
- Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot1958 · as Czar Ivan IV
- Don Quixote1957 · as Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quixano
- They Knew Mayakovsky1955
- Rimsky-Korsakov1953 · as Stasov
- Mussorgsky1950 · as Vladimir Stasov
- The Battle of Stalingrad1949 · as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Happy Sailing1949 · as kapitan Levashov
- Alexander Popov1949 · as Aleksandr Popov
- Ivan Pavlov1949 · as Maxim Gorky
- Pirogov1947 · as Lyadov
- New Home1947 · as Mikhail Andreevich Kostousov
- Spring1947 · as Arkadi Mikhailovich Gromov
- In the Name of Life1946 · as Lukich
- Ivan the Terrible, Part I1944 · as Czar Ivan IV
- Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia1943 · as Alexander Nevsky
- His Name Is Sukhe-Bator1942 · as baron von Ungern-Sternberg
- Defense of Tsaritsyn1942
- 60 Days1940
- Concert on the Screen1940
- Lenin in 19181939 · as Maksim Gorky
- Friends1939 · as осетин Бета
- Alexander Nevsky1938 · as Alexander Nevsky
- Peter the First, Part II1938 · as Prince Alexei
- Treasure Island1937 · as Billy Bones
- For the Soviet Motherland1937
- Peter the First, Part I1937 · as Prince Alexei
- Baltic Deputy1937
- Capt. Grant's Family1936 · as Jacques Paganel
- The Girlfriends1936 · as white officer (uncredited)
- Frontier1935
- Hectic Days1935
- Happiness1935
- Crown Prince of the Republic1934 · as Waiter (uncredited)
- Do I Love You?1934 · as Student
- Moon on the Left1929 · as Kalugin
- Brother1929
- His Excellency1928 · as Tall Clown
- My Son1928 · as Pat
- The Poet and the Tsar1927 · as Charles (uncredited)
All TV Shows (1)
- When Idols Were Gone2005 · as Himself / ArchiveFootage