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Nikolay Cherkasov
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Soviet actor (1903-1966)
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Nikolay Cherkasov was a stage and film actor as well as a politician, born on 14 July 1903 in Saint Petersburg and educated at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts. He began his career in 1918, working in realism and socialist realism, and was employed at various times by the Mariinsky Theatre, the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, the Bryantsev Youth Theatre and the Alexandrinsky Theatre.
A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Peace Committee, he took part in the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and received the Stalin Prize, the Order of Lenin, the title of People's Artist of the USSR and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. Cherkasov died on 14 September 1966 in Saint Petersburg of a myocardial infarction and was buried at Tikhvin Cemetery.
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Film & TV
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 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…
Known for
- When Idols Were Gone — Himself / ArchiveFootage2005
- Little Tragedies1966
- Nights of Farewell — Gedeonov1965
- Мелодии Дунаевского1963
- All Remains to People — scientist Fyodor Dronov1963
- Актёр Николай Черкасов — Himself1959
- Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot — Czar Ivan IV1958
- Don Quixote — Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quixano1957
- They Knew Mayakovsky1955
- Rimsky-Korsakov — Stasov1953
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1903-07-27 ) July 27, 1903, Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
- Died
- September 14, 1966 (1966-09-14) (aged 63), Leningrad , Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- Resting place
- Tikhvin Cemetery
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1918–1965
- Awards
- Stalin prize (1941, 1946, 1950, 1951 − twice )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nikolay
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Place of birth
- Saint Petersburg
- Place of death
- Saint Petersburg
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- Russian State Institute of Performing Arts
- Employer
- Alexandrinsky Theatre
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Participant in
- 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Genre
- socialist realism
- Image
- Nevski3.jpg
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- place of burial
- Tikhvin Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1903-07-27
- date of death
- 1966-09-14
- Commons category
- Nikolay Cherkasov
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Soviet Peace Committee
- start of work period
- 1918-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov (27 July [O.S. 14 July] 1903 – 14 September 1966) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1947.
He is best known for his collaboration with director Sergei Eisenstein, playing the title roles in the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944/1958).
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