Nikolai Cherkasov

Known for ActingBorn 1903-07-27Died 1966-09-14St Petersburg, Russian Empire

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Happy Sailing

Brother

New Home

When Idols Were Gone

Ivan Pavlov

Frontier

My Son

Concert on the Screen

60 Days

Do I Love You?

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

Pirogov

His Excellency

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Rimsky-Korsakov

Alexander Popov

In the Name of Life

His Name Is Sukhe-Bator

Alexander Nevsky

For the Soviet Motherland

Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

Moon on the Left

Don Quixote

The Girlfriends

Spring

Treasure Island

The Poet and the Tsar

Capt. Grant's Family

Мелодии Дунаевского

Hectic Days

Friends

Happiness

Crown Prince of the Republic

Mussorgsky

Lenin in 1918

Peter the First, Part I

All Remains to People

Nights of Farewell

Peter the First, Part II

Baltic Deputy

Defense of Tsaritsyn

The Battle of Stalingrad

Little Tragedies

Актёр Николай Черкасов

They Knew Mayakovsky