Background
CHERKASOV, Nikolay was born on July 27, 1903 in St. Petersburg.
CHERKASOV, Nikolay was born on July 27, 1903 in St. Petersburg.
1926 graduate Leningrad Institute of Stagecraft.
1926-1927 actor, Leningrad Young Playgoers’ Theater. 1927-1929 actor, ’’Komsoglaz” youth ensemble. 1929-1931 worked as an entertainer in Moscow and Leningrad.
1931-1932 actor, Leningrad Comedy Theater. From 1926 also acted in films. Member, Soviet actors’ deleg to Canada, China, India, France, Italy, Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, etc.
1957 head, Soviet deleg at lnt Film Festival in Spain. Member, Soviet parliamentary deleg to England. 1959 head, Soviet deleg at US première of film Zhuravli letyat (The Cranes Are Flying).
Bd chairman, Leningrad Department, All-Russian Theater Social. Deputy, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet of 1938 and 1947 convocations. Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1950 and 1954 convocations.
Roles: stage roles: title role in Don Kikhot (Don Quixote) ( 1927). Varlaam in Pushkin’s ’’Boris Godunov” (1934). Title role in A.N. Tolstoy’s Pyotr Pervyy (Peter I) ( 1938).
Gorky in Kapler and Zlatogorova’s Lenin v 1918-om godu (Lenin in 1918) (1939). Mayakovskiy in V.A. Katanyan’s Oni znali Mayakovskogo (They Knew Mayakovskiy) (1954). General Khudov in Bulgakov’s Beg (Flight) (1958), etc.
Film roles: Professor Polezhayev in Députât Baltiki (The Baltic Deputy) (1937). Tsarevich Aleksey in Pyotr Pervyy (Peter I) (1937-1939). Title role in Aleksandr Nevskiy (1938).
Title role in Ivan Groznyy (Ivan the Terrible) (1945). Title role in Don Kikhot (Don Quixote) (1956). Academy Dronov in Vsyo ostayotsya lyudyam (lieutenant All Depends on the People) (1963), etc.
Member, Communist Party, since 1940.
Member, Lenin Prize Committee for Lit and Art, USSR Council of Min from 1960. Member, Org Committee, USSR Film Workers’ Union from 1957. Member, Soviet Peace Committee.
Communist Party member from 1940.