Boris Chirkov


Boris Petrovich Chirkov was a Soviet and Russian actor and pedagogue.

Life and career

Chirkov was born in Brianka on 13 August 1901. He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Stage Arts in 1926. He appeared in 50 films between 1928 and 1975. From 1945-1950 he was director of Moscow Theatre-Studio of the Film Actor.
Chirkov was especially celebrated for his performances in the Maksim trilogy: The Youth of Maxim, The Return of Maxim, and The Vyborg Side. He was awarded Stanislavsky State Prize of the RSFSR, two Stalin Prizes first degree and two Stalin Prizes second degree. People's Artist of the USSR and Hero of Socialist Labour. Chirkov died in Moscow on 28 May 1982.

Selected filmography

My Son – PatashonLuna sleva – OrskiyRodnoy brat – GrishkaAlone – Man Talking on the PhonePesnya o shchastye – Chief disciplinary sectionChapaev – PeasantThe Youth of Maxim – MaksimGirl Friends – SenkaLenochka i vinograd The Return of Maxim – MaksimThe Defense of Volotchayevsk – Old ManThe Great Citizen – Maksim, the investigatorChelovek s ruzhyom – YevtushenkoThe Vyborg Side – MaksimMinin and Pozharsky – RomanThe New Teacher – Stepan Ivanovich LautinBoyevoy kinosbornik 3 – This Is the Enemy Aleksandr Parkhomenko – Nestor MakhnoAntosha Rybkin – Antosha RybkinThe Front – UdivitelnyyPartizany v stepyakh Ukrainy – Grandfather TarasKutuzov – LavilovIvan Nikulin: Russian Sailor – Zakhar FomichyovThe Great Glinka – Mikhail Ivanovich GlinkaThe Court of Honor – Andrey Vereyskiy akademikThree Encounters – Nikanor SamoseevDream of a Cossack – KondratyevThe Miners of Donetsk – Stepan NedolyaThe Boarder True Friends – ChishovDimitrovgradtsy – SobolevFor the Power of the Soviets – Secreatary ChernoivanenkoSvoimi rukami – RudenkoRyadom s nami – StletovDorogoy moy chelovek Kievlyanka – Yakov Petrovich SeredaMechty sbyvayutsya – Pavel Andreyevich LeshchukPoteryannaya fotografiya Nasledniki Svoya golova na plechakh – Kolkhoz ChairmanGorizont – LikhobabaA Trip Without a Load - Ded na aerodromeGreshnyy angel – Religioznyy starikKain XVIII – Lavatory WorkerThe Alive and the Dead – Gavrila BiryukovMöcüzälär adasi Golubaya chashka Artakarg handznararutyun – Police spyPervyy posetitel Myatezhnaya zastava Seven Old Men and a Girl Shutite? – Izhorskiy batalon – VanechkaPo sobstvennomu zhelaniyu Rosa Gorozhane – Stariy master