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Profile of Nikolai Cherkasov
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Nikolai Cherkasov |
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27th July 1903 |
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St. Petersburg, Russia |
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Nikolai Constantinovich Cherkasov (Russian Ðиколай КонÑтантинович ЧеркаÑов), (July 27, 1903 – September 14, 1966), was a Soviet actor. From 1919 he was mime-artist in the Petrograd's Maryinsky Theatre, Bolshoy dramaticheskiy teatr and others. After finishing institute of the stage arts in 1926, he started to act in Theater of the Young Spectators in Leningrad. He was favoured by Stalin and played title roles in Sergei Eisenstein's movies Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible. In 1947 comedy Springtime he appeared alongside other icons of Stalinist cinema, Lyubov Orlova and Faina Ranevskaya.
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