Nikolai Plotnikov
Nikolai Sergeyevich Plotnikov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR.
Biography
He was born in Vyazma into a family of a hairdresser. As a child, after he lost a majority of his family, he was sent to Saint Petersburg to have his uncle look after him. There, he studied in art school of Alexander von Stieglitz.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.
He joined the Communist Party in 1954.
He died in Moscow, and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Filmography
Dawn of Paris as General Dombrovsky- The Lonely White Sail as bearded informantThe [Oppenheim Family] as Edgar OppenheimLenin in 1918 as kulak from Tamborsk
- Gorky 2: My Apprenticeship as Zhikharev
- Gorky 3: My Universities as NikiforychThe Wedding as the best manThe Vow as Ivan Yermilov
- The White Fang as Handsome SmithIvan Pavlov as Nikodim Vasilyevich
- The Battle of Stalingrad as Commissioner GurovThe Fall of Berlin as Walther von Brauchitsch
- Least We Forget as Vsevolod YarchukNine Days in One Year as Professor Konstantin Ivanovich Sintsov
- Your Contemporary as Professor Maksim Petrovich Nitochkin
- The Seagull as Pyotr Nikolayevich Sorin
Awards and honors
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR
- Stalin Prize, 1st class – for his role as Ivan Yermilov in The Vow
- People's Artist of the RSFSR
- People's Artist of the USSR
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- All-Union [Film Festival] — Best Actor
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival — Best Actor
- Stanislavsky State Prize of the RSFSR
- Two Orders of Lenin