Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov (Russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Черка́сов; July 27, 1903 – September 14, 1966) was a Soviet actor and a People's Artist of the Soviet Union.
From 1919 he was a mime artist in Petrograd's Maryinsky Theatre, the Bolshoi Theatre, and elsewhere. After graduating from the Institute of Stage Arts in 1926, he began acting in the Young Spectator's Theatre in Leningrad.
Cherkasov was one of Stalin's favorite actors and...
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Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov (Russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Черка́сов; July 27, 1903 – September 14, 1966) was a Soviet actor and a People's Artist of the Soviet Union.
From 1919 he was a mime artist in Petrograd's Maryinsky Theatre, the Bolshoi Theatre, and elsewhere. After graduating from the Institute of Stage Arts in 1926, he began acting in the Young Spectator's Theatre in Leningrad.
Cherkasov was one of Stalin's favorite actors and played title roles in Sergei Eisenstein's monumental sound films Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Parts I & II of Ivan the Terrible (1945 & 1946 though not officially released until 1958 for political reasons). He also played Jacques Paganel in the memorable 1936 adaptation of Jules Verne's The Children of Captain Grant. In the 1947 comedy Springtime Cherkasov appeared alongside other icons of Stalinist cinema, Lyubov Orlova and Faina Ranevskaya. For the role of Alexander Popov in the film Alexander Popov in 1951 he received a Stalin Prize of the...
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