Nikolai Gritsenko
Nikolai Gritsenko (Russian Николай Олимпиевич Гриценко; born July 24, 1912 in Jassynuwata, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), † December 8, 1979 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet film and theater actor.
Life and work
Nikolai Gritsenko was born in 1912 in the city Jassynuwata in today's Ukraine. In 1931 he finished his studies at the Dnepropetrovsk technical school, worked in the aftermath in various cities as he a job in the engineering department of a steel mill in Makijiwka received. There he came into contact with the theater and was educated at the local theater faculty for the performer. In 1934, he attended acting school in Kiev, two years later, the theater school of the Red Army until 1940 he finished his education at the Shchukin - drama school. He then became a member of the ensemble of the Moscow Vakhtangov Theater, where he served until his death. He became a well-known character actor in the theater and later in the film where he made his debut in July 1942 Raismans literature adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's Maschenka.
Among his best known films include the Alexei Tolstoy trilogy The ordeal and the film Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. He played his last role in 1978 in the Soviet literary adaptation father Sergei, as he could end suffering from a serious illness and the loss of memory filming only cumbersome.