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.
Acting
Movie
Alexander Nevsky
as Alexander Nevsky
1938
Movie
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
as Czar Ivan IV
1944
Movie
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
as Czar Ivan IV
1958
Movie
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
as Alexander Nevsky
1943
Movie
Happiness
1935
Movie
Don Quixote
as Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quixano
1957
Movie
Spring
as Arkadi Mikhailovich Gromov
1947
Movie
Lenin in 1918
as Maksim Gorky
1939
Movie
Capt. Grant's Family
as Jacques Paganel
1936
Movie
Peter the First, Part I
as Prince Alexei
1937
Movie
Peter the First, Part II
as Prince Alexei
1938
Movie
The Battle of Stalingrad
as President Franklin D. Roosevelt
1949
Movie
Baltic Deputy
1937
Movie
Mussorgsky
as Vladimir Stasov
1950
Movie
Treasure Island
as Billy Bones
1937
Movie
Crown Prince of the Republic
as Waiter (uncredited)
1934
Movie
All Remains to People
as scientist Fyodor Dronov
1963
Movie
Pirogov
as Lyadov
1947
Movie
Hectic Days
1935
Movie
The Poet and the Tsar
as Charles (uncredited)
1927
Movie
Nights of Farewell
as Gedeonov
1965
Movie
Rimsky-Korsakov
as Stasov
1953
Movie
The Girlfriends
as white officer (uncredited)
1936
Movie
Defense of Tsaritsyn
1942