Nikolay Cherkasov

Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov (Russian Николай Константинович Черкасов, scientific transliteration Nikolaj Konstantinović Čerkasov; * 14 Julijul / July 27 1903greg in Saint Petersburg, .. † September 14, 1966 in Moscow) was a Soviet actor. The highlight of his career with the film were the title roles in the films Alexander Nevsky Eisenstein and Ivan the Terrible ( Part I and Part II).

Life

Cherkasov went through a ballet training and was then temporarily employed at the opera of his home town, and he later worked as an extra and bit player for the St. Mary's Theatre of Petersburg. In 1923 he took a course of study on at the Theatre Academy in what was then Petrograd and was then employed at the Youth Theatre and from 1933 at the Pushkin Theater.

His debut with the film had Cherkasov 1927 in Czar and poets Vladimir Gardin, the first major film role was however only in 1937 as a professor in Poleschajew Stormy evening of life. The following year he occupied Sergei Eisenstein in the title role of Alexander Nevsky. The expressive Cherkasov specialized in the presentation of historical and contemporary personalities with "character". In Mikhail Romm's Lenin in 1918, he embodied Maxim Gorky; again under Eisenstein - with a lifetime artistic friendship connected him - 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 outstanding.

Cherkasov 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 of the Soviet Union.