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Nikolai Cherkasov
St 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…
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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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2005
When Idols Were Gone
TV show Himself / ArchiveFootage
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1966
Little Tragedies
Movie
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1965
Nights of Farewell
Movie Gedeonov
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1963
Мелодии Дунаевского
Movie
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1963
All Remains to People
Movie scientist Fyodor Dronov
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1959
Актёр Николай Черкасов
Movie Himself
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1958
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Movie Czar Ivan IV
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1957
Don Quixote
Movie Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quixano
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1955
They Knew Mayakovsky
Movie
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1953
Rimsky-Korsakov
Movie Stasov
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1950
Mussorgsky
Movie Vladimir Stasov
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1949
The Battle of Stalingrad
Movie President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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1949
Happy Sailing
Movie kapitan Levashov
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1949
Alexander Popov
Movie Aleksandr Popov
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1949
Ivan Pavlov
Movie Maxim Gorky
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1947
Pirogov
Movie Lyadov
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1947
New Home
Movie Mikhail Andreevich Kostousov
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1947
Spring
Movie Arkadi Mikhailovich Gromov
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1946
In the Name of Life
Movie Lukich
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1944
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Movie Czar Ivan IV
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1943
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
Movie Alexander Nevsky
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1942
His Name Is Sukhe-Bator
Movie baron von Ungern-Sternberg
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1942
Defense of Tsaritsyn
Movie
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1940
60 Days
Movie
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1940
Concert on the Screen
Movie
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1939
Lenin in 1918
Movie Maksim Gorky
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1939
Friends
Movie осетин Бета
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1938
Alexander Nevsky
Movie Alexander Nevsky
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1938
Peter the First, Part II
Movie Prince Alexei
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1937
Treasure Island
Movie Billy Bones
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1937
Peter the First, Part I
Movie Prince Alexei
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1937
Baltic Deputy
Movie
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1936
Capt. Grant's Family
Movie Jacques Paganel
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1936
The Girlfriends
Movie white officer (uncredited)
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1935
Frontier
Movie
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1935
Hectic Days
Movie
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1935
Happiness
Movie
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1934
Crown Prince of the Republic
Movie Waiter (uncredited)
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1934
Do I Love You?
Movie Student
