Nikolai Cherkasov

Born: 1903-07-27

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.


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Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

as Czar Ivan IV
Released: 1958-10-10

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny,...

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Ivan the Terrible, Part I

as Czar Ivan IV
Released: 1944-11-11

Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his...

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Alexander Nevsky

as Alexander Nevsky
Released: 1938-11-24

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the...

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Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

as Alexander Nevsky
Released: 1943-11-13

The fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and...

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Happiness

as uncredited
Released: 1934-10-01

A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a...

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The Battle of Stalingrad

as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Released: 1949-11-11

A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir...

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Don Quixote

as Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quixano
Released: 1957-05-23

Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don...

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Spring

as Arkadi Mikhailovich Gromov
Released: 1947-07-02

A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer...

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Peter the First, Part I

as Prince Alexei
Released: 1937-08-30

This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the...

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In the Name of Life

as Lukich
Released: 1946-06-06

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The Girlfriends

as white officer (uncredited)
Released: 1936-02-19

Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are...

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Lenin in 1918

as Maksim Gorky
Released: 1939-04-06

Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin’s activities in the first years after the Great...

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Moon on the Left

as Kalugin
Released: 1929-02-02

The main character, the chairman of the district revolutionary tribunal, Comrade Kovalev,...

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All Remains to People

as scientist Fyodor Dronov
Released: 1963-12-28

Renowned scientist Dronov works in Novosibirsk on the creation of ultra-modern engine. He has a...

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Mussorgsky

as Vladimir Stasov
Released: 1950-11-27

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest...

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Capt. Grant's Family

as Jacques Paganel
Released: 1936-06-06

The son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an...

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Peter the First, Part II

as Prince Alexei
Released: 1938-08-22

Depicts Russian Tsar Peter the First's conquest over the Swedes and his son Aleksey's plot to...

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Мелодии Дунаевского

as uncredited
Released: 1963-12-30

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Pirogov

as Lyadov
Released: 1947-12-16

A biopic based on the life of Russian scientist and doctor Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov...

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His Name Is Sukhe-Bator

as baron von Ungern-Sternberg
Released: 1942-10-12

The film tells about the founder of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the leader of...

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Baltic Deputy

as uncredited
Released: 1937-03-27

A film based on the life of the Russian scientist, Klement Timiriazev, who taught at Cambridge...

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The Invincible

as Rodionov the father, a worker
Released: 1943-01-21

The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed...

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Nights of Farewell

as Gedeonov
Released: 1965-11-16

Paris, the middle of the XIX century. Young Marius Petipa is going on a long journey to St....

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Rimsky-Korsakov

as Stasov
Released: 1953-08-24

Biographical film about the composer Rimskiy-Korsakov. Belongs to the gallery of costume...

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Academician Ivan Pavlov

as Maxim Gorky
Released: 1949-02-21

Russia, 1875: In Riazan’, Dr Pavlov is summoned to a landowner who refuses to accept the...

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Crown Prince of the Republic

as uncredited
Released: 1934-12-12

After news of the future birth of a child, Sergei split from his wife, Natasha, and settled in...

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New Home

as Mikhail Andreevich Kostousov
Released: 1947-09-10

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Friends

as осетин Бета
Released: 1939-01-01

The Soviet classic based on the biography of one of the main October Revolution leaders - Sergey...

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Alexander Popov

as uncredited
Released: 1949-05-03

A biographical film about the life and work of the outstanding physicist-electrical engineer,...

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Hectic Days

as uncredited
Released: 1935-05-01

A Soviet comedy about a charming womanizer.

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My Son

as Pat
Released: 1928-01-01

A man discovers that he's not the father of his wife's baby.

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Happy Sailing

as kapitan Levashov
Released: 1949-10-27

A story about boys in a sailors school.

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Defense of Tsaritsyn

as uncredited
Released: 1942-03-29

Propaganda film enhancing the role of I.V. Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn...

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For the Soviet Motherland

as uncredited
Released: 1937-10-26

The film takes place in 1921 on the Soviet-Finnish border. Shyutskorov detachments broke into...

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60 Days

as uncredited
Released: 1940-05-02

Adventures of the medicine professor during reserve duty.

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They Knew Mayakovsky

as uncredited
Released: 1955-06-19

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Brother

as uncredited
Released: 1929-01-01

The chairman of the factory committee of one of the Leningrad factories, Fyodor Gorbachev, a...

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Концерт на экране

as uncredited
Released: 1940-01-01

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Как уходили кумиры

as Himself / ArchiveFootage
First aired: 2005-08-15

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