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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1903-07-27
Place of Birth: St Petersburg, Russian Empire
Also Known As: Nikolay Cherkasov, Николай Черкасов, Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov, Nikolai Tscherkassow

Movies List of Nikolai Cherkasov

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Alexander Nevsky

1938 Movie
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Granitsa

1935 Movie
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In the Name of Life

1946 Movie
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Mussorgsky

1950 Movie
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Rimsky-Korsakov

1953 Movie
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Nights of Farewell

1965 Movie
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Don Quixote

1957 Movie
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Happiness

1934 Movie
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Spring

1947 Movie
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All Remains to People

1963 Movie
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Capt. Grant's Family

1936 Movie
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His Excellency

1928 Movie
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Friends

1939 Movie
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Lenin in 1918

1939 Movie
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Treasure Island

1937 Movie
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They Knew Mayakovsky

1955 Movie
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Brother

1929 Movie
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Moon on the Left

1929 Movie
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The Invincible

1943 Movie
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60 Days

1940 Movie
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Pirogov

1947 Movie
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Happy Sailing

1949 Movie
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Baltic Deputy

1937 Movie
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My Son

1928 Movie
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Hectic Days

1935 Movie
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New Home

1947 Movie
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Alexander Popov

1949 Movie
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The Girlfriends

1936 Movie
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Defense of Tsaritsyn

1942 Movie