Background
BATALOV, Nikolay was born on December 6, 1899 in Moscow.
BATALOV, Nikolay was born on December 6, 1899 in Moscow.
1916-1924 actor, 2nd Studio, Moscow Arts Theater. From 1924 in company of Moscow Arts Theater, where in 1927 he played Figaro, his first big role. Possessed great stage presence and his playing was infused with a keen feeling for modernity, sincerity, popular humor and temperament.
Roles: stage roles: Petya in Gippius’ Zelyonoye kol'tso (The Green Ring) (1916). Vas’ka Okorok in Bronepoezd 14-69 (Armored Train 14-69) (1927). The sailor Rubtsov in Ivanov’s Blokada (Blockade) (1929).
Lup Kleshnin in A.K. Tolstoy's Tsar’ Fydor Ioannovich. Medvedev in Gorky's Na dne (The Lower Depths). Lopakhin in Chekhov's Vishnyovyy sad (The Cherry Orchard).
Sobakevich in Gogol's Myortvyye duslii (Dead Souls) (1933), et cetera Film roles: Gusev in "Aelita” (1924). Pavel Vlasov in Mat (Mother) (1926).
Sergeyev in first Soviet sound film Putyovka a zhizn (Passport to Life) (1931). The husband in Tret’ya Meshchanskaya (The Third Meshchanskaya) (1927). Leva in Gorizont (Horizon) (1933).
Ivanov in Petukh i Tsar’ (The Rooster and the Tsar) (1935). Latsis in Tri tovarishcha (Three Comrades) (1935), ect.