An outstanding Soviet theater and film actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1937). People's Artist of the RSFSR (03/11/1939). People's Artist of the USSR (02.26.1947). He graduated from the Institute of Performing Arts (1926). Since 1919 - a mimic artist of the Petrograd Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theater, the Bolshoi Drama Theater and other theaters. In the years 1926-1929 - actor of the Leningrad Youth Theater. In 1929-1931 - artist of the Leningrad and Moscow music halls. In the years 1931-1933 - artist of the Leningrad Mobile Theater "Comedy". In 1933-1965 - artist of the Leningrad Academic Drama Theater named after Pushkin. Nikolai Cherkasov is the only actor whose face is imprinted on the order. Stalin personally chose and approved the portrait of Cherkasov for one of the highest state awards - the Soviet Order of Alexander Nevsky. Member of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR 1-2 convocations. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 3-4 convocations (1950-1958). Chairman of the Leningrad branch of the WTO (since 1948). Member of the Soviet Peace Committee (since 1949). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1940. September 14, Nikolai Konstantinovich died at the 64th year of life. When the great actor passed away, one of his students said that he died not from heart failure, but from insufficient heartiness... The actor was buried in the Necropolis of Artists of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Leningrad. July 27, 1970 the name of Cherkasov was assigned to one of the streets in Leningrad.

Filmography

• 1966Little Tragedies
• 1965Nights of Farewell — Gedeonov
• 1963All Remains to People — scientist Fyodor Dronov
• 1963Мелодии Дунаевского
• 1958Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot — Czar Ivan IV
• 1957Don Quixote — Don Quixote de la Mancha / Alonso Quixano
• 1955They Knew Mayakovsky
• 1953Rimsky-Korsakov — Stasov
• 1950Mussorgsky — Vladimir Stasov
• 1949Alexander Popov — Aleksandr Popov
• 1949Happy Sailing — kapitan Levashov
• 1949Ivan Pavlov — Maxim Gorky
• 1949The Battle of Stalingrad — President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 1947New Home — Mikhail Andreevich Kostousov
• 1947Pirogov — Lyadov
• 1947Spring — Arkadi Mikhailovich Gromov
• 1946In the Name of Life — Lukich
• 1944Ivan the Terrible, Part I — Czar Ivan IV
• 1943Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia — Alexander Nevsky
• 1942Defense of Tsaritsyn
• 1942His Name Is Sukhe-Bator — baron von Ungern-Sternberg
• 194060 Days
• 1940Concert on the Screen
• 1939Friends — осетин Бета
• 1939Lenin in 1918 — Maksim Gorky
• 1938Alexander Nevsky — Alexander Nevsky
• 1938Peter the First, Part II — Prince Alexei
• 1937Baltic Deputy
• 1937For the Soviet Motherland
• 1937Peter the First, Part I — Prince Alexei
• 1937Treasure Island — Billy Bones
• 1936Capt. Grant's Family — Jacques Paganel
• 1936The Girlfriends — white officer (uncredited)
• 1935Frontier
• 1935Happiness
• 1935Hectic Days
• 1934Crown Prince of the Republic — Waiter (uncredited)
• 1934Do I Love You? — Student
• 1929Brother
• 1929Moon on the Left — Kalugin
• 1928His Excellency — Tall Clown
• 1928My Son — Pat
• 1927The Poet and the Tsar — Charles (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (2)

• When Idols Were Gone — Himself / ArchiveFootage
• 1959Актёр Николай Черкасов — Himself