Nikolai Konstantinowitsch Cherkassov
Nikolay Cherkasov ( Russian Николай Константинович Черкасов ., Scientific transliteration Nikolaj Konstantinović Čerkasov * July 14 . Jul / 27. July 1903 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 14. September 1966 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet actor. The high point of his film career were the title roles in the Eisenstein films Alexander Newski and Ivan the Terrible ( Part I and Part II ).
Life
Cherkassov went through ballet training and then worked temporarily at the opera in his hometown, later he also worked as an extra and small actor for the Marien Theater in Petersburg. In 1923 he began studying at the theater academy in what was then Petrograd and was then employed at the Theater der Jugend and from 1933 at the Pushkin Theater.
Cherkassov made his film debut in 1927 in Tsar and Poet by Vladimir Gardin , but he only played his first major film role in 1937 as Professor Poleschajew in Stormy Retirement . The following year Sergei Eisenstein cast him in the title role of Alexander Newski . The expressive Cherkassov specialized in the representation of historical and contemporary personalities with "character". In Mikhail Romm's Lenin 1918 he played Maxim Gorky ; again under Eisenstein - with whom he had a lifelong artistic friendship - 1943–47 Ivan IV in both parts of Ivan, the Terrible ( I and II ). In the 1950s, his roles as Vladimir Mayakovsky (1955) and as the main character in Don Quixote (1957) are particularly prominent.
Cherkassov received several national awards and published two books, his autobiography in 1953 and another in 1958. As a member of the Supreme Soviet , he was considered one of the most influential artists in the Soviet Union .
In 1994 the asteroid (4053) Cherkasov was named after him.
Filmography (selection)
- 1927: Tsar and poet ( Поэт и царь )
- 1935: happiness
- 1936: The children of Captain Grant ( Дети капитана Гранта )
- 1938: Alexander Newski ( Александр Невский )
- 1939: Lenin 1918 ( Ленин в 1918 году )
- 1944–1945: Ivan the Terrible I and Ivan the Terrible II ( Иван Грозный )
- 1947: Spring ( Весна )
- 1957: Don Quixote ( Дон Кихот )
Awards
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1938, 1963)
- Order of Lenin (1939, 1950)
- People's Artist of the RSFSR (1939)
- Stalin Prize (1941, 1946, 1950, twice in 1951)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1947)
- Lenin Prize (1964)
Web links
- Nikolay Cherkasov in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography , Enziklopedija Krugosvet (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Nikolai Cherkassov - biography. Retrieved August 3, 2018 (Russian).
- ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 24121
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cherkassov, Nikolai Konstantinowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Черкасов, Николай Константинович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1966 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |