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Nikolai Cherkasov

Nikolai Cherkasov

Acting

July 27, 1903 – September 14, 1966 (died at 63)
St Petersburg, Russian Empire
Male
45 Movies
1 TV Shows

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.

Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1944 7.3

as Czar Ivan IV

Age 41 (now 63)
Alexander Nevsky
Alexander Nevsky

Alexander Nevsky

1938 7.0

as Alexander Nevsky

Age 35 (now 63)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

1958 7.3

as Czar Ivan IV

Age 55 (now 63)
Don Quixote
Don Quixote

Don Quixote

1957 6.7

as Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quixano

Age 53 (now 63)
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

1943 6.9

as Alexander Nevsky

Age 40 (now 63)
Spring
Spring

Spring

1947 6.3

as Arkadi Mikhailovich Gromov

Age 43 (now 63)
Happiness
Happiness

Happiness

1935 5.8
Age 31 (now 63)
Capt. Grant's Family
Capt. Grant's Family

Capt. Grant's Family

1936 6.3

as Jacques Paganel

Age 32 (now 63)
Peter the First, Part I
Peter the First, Part I

Peter the First, Part I

1937 5.2

as Prince Alexei

Age 34 (now 63)
Baltic Deputy
Baltic Deputy

Baltic Deputy

1937 4.6
Age 33 (now 63)
Lenin in 1918
Lenin in 1918

Lenin in 1918

1939 5.2

as Maksim Gorky

Age 35 (now 63)
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad

The Battle of Stalingrad

1949 3.9

as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Age 46 (now 63)
Mussorgsky
Mussorgsky

Mussorgsky

1950 5.3

as Vladimir Stasov

Age 47 (now 63)
Peter the First, Part II
Peter the First, Part II

Peter the First, Part II

1938 4.6

as Prince Alexei

Age 35 (now 63)
All Remains to People
All Remains to People

All Remains to People

1963 4.8

as scientist Fyodor Dronov

Age 60 (now 63)
Treasure Island
Treasure Island

Treasure Island

1937 6.3

as Billy Bones

Age 34 (now 63)