Nikolai Plotnikov

{{Short description|Russian actor and theatre director (1897–1979)}}

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Nikolai Sergeyevich Plotnikov ({{langx|ru|Николай Сергеевич Пло́тников}}; 5 November 1897 – 3 February 1979) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2009|place=US|isbn=978-0-8108-6072-8|pages=536–537}}Beumers p.203 People's Artist of the USSR (1966).

Biography

He was born in Vyazma into a family of a hairdresser. As a child, after he lost a majority of his family (mother from tuberculosis, father from myocardial rupture, and both sisters), he was sent to Saint Petersburg to have his uncle look after him. There, he studied in art school of Alexander von Stieglitz (now Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design).

In spring of 1916, he was drafted into the Western Front during World War I. After he returned, he began studying acting in Moscow Art Theatre under supervision of Michael Chekhov.

From 1945 to 1956, he was the director of Film Actor Theater-Study (now National Film Actors' Theatre).

He joined the Communist Party in 1954.

He died in Moscow, and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Filmography

Dawn of Paris (1936) as General Dombrovsky
The Lonely White Sail (1937) as bearded informant
The Oppenheim Family (1938) as Edgar Oppenheim
Lenin in 1918 (1939) as kulak from Tamborsk
Gorky 2: My Apprenticeship (1939) as Zhikharev
Gorky 3: My Universities (1940) as Nikiforych
The Wedding (1944) as the best man
The Vow (1946) as Ivan Yermilov
The White Fang (1946) as Handsome Smith
Ivan Pavlov (1949) as Nikodim Vasilyevich
The Battle of Stalingrad (1949) as Commissioner Gurov
The Fall of Berlin (1950) as Walther von Brauchitsch
Least We Forget (1954) as Vsevolod Yarchuk
Nine Days in One Year (1962) as Professor Konstantin Ivanovich Sintsov
Your Contemporary (1967) as Professor Maksim Petrovich Nitochkin
The Seagull (1972) as Pyotr Nikolayevich Sorin

Awards and honors

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1933)
Stalin Prize, 1st class (1947) – for his role as Ivan Yermilov in The Vow
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1957)[http://www.gumer.info/bibliotek_Buks/Culture/Teatr/_190.php Театральная Энциклопедия. драма опера балет оперетта цирк эстрада драматург режиссёр]
People's Artist of the USSR (1966)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1967)
All-Union Film Festival (1968) — Best Actor (Your Contemporary)
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (1968) — Best Actor (Your Contemporary)
Stanislavsky State Prize of the RSFSR (1970)Большая Советская Энциклопедия. Гл. ред. А. М. Прохоров, 3-е изд. Т. 20. Плата — Проб. 1975. 608 стр., илл.; 21 л. илл. и карт.
Two Orders of Lenin (1972, 1977)