Biography
Nikolay Gavrilovich Smorchkov (Russian: Николай Гаврилович Сморчков; 9 August 1930 – 7 March 2021) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. Nikolay Smorchkov was born on 9 August 1930 in the village of Ivankovo, Gavrilovo-Posadsky District, in a large peasant family named Gavril Ivanovich and Pelageya Matveyevna. In 1933, fleeing Collectivization, the family moved to the village of Orgtrud, which was not far from Vladimir (now the district of the city). Being still in the 7th grade, the future actor caught a movie and decided to become a film actor.
After graduation Smorchkov came to Moscow and entered the VGIK (course of Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova), where he had to deal specially with removing his pronounced accent. While still in his second year in 1951, he played his first role in Gerasimov's film The Village Doctor. He graduated from VGIK in 1953 with a red diploma. After graduating from the institute, the actor was enrolled in the theater-studio of the film actor and the film studio Mosfilm, where he worked for almost forty years. On the stage of the theater he played in the play The Evening of Old Vaudevilles, went with him on tour, but then completely switched to cinema.
He starred in more than 160 films.Smorchkov died on 7 March 2021 from COVID-19 amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. He was 90.
Filmography
all 71
Movies 67
TV Shows 4
self 1
Director 1
Сегодня вечером (2012)
Space Dogs (2010)
Once Upon a Time in the Provinces (2008)
Priklyucheniya soldata Ivana Chonkina (2007)
Antikiller 2: Antiterror (2003)
Tycoon (2002)
Shukshin's Stories (2002)
Mu-Mu (1998)
Love in Russian 2 (1996)
Love in Russian (1995)
Ispolnitel Prigovora (1992)
Don't Wake a Sleeping Dog (1991)
Tsar Ivan the Terrible (1991)
Promised Heaven (1991)
The Eastern Corridor, or the Software Racket... (1990)
Swindlers (1990)
Sofia Petrovna (1989)
You Don’t Like Our Governement, Do You? (1988)
Insult (1987)
Chicherin (1986)
The Limit of Possible (1984)
You're Happy, Zhenka! (1984)
A Cruel Romance (1984)
Twice Born (1984)
A Ring from Amsterdam (1982)
I'm Staying with You (1981)
The Secret of the Notebook (1981)
Jamal's Tree (1981)
A Fox Hunt (1980)
Polar Fox Napoleon III (1979)
You to Me, Me to You (1979)
The Legend of Till (1977)
Storm on the Land (1976)
Story of an Unknown Actor (1976)
One Times One (1975)
Front Without Flanks (1974)
My Friends (1974)
Совесть (1974)
Совесть (1974)
Incorrigible Liar (1973)
The Siberian Woman (1973)
The End of the Lyubavines (1972)
The Red Tent (1969)
Not Under the Jurisdiction (1969)
Only Three Nights (1969)
The Secret Agent's Blunder (1968)
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967)
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967)
Wild Honey (1967)
The Little Runaway (1966)
War and Peace (1966)
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1966)
Through Icy Haze (1965)
We Love You (1962)
The Judgment (1962)
Mission (1962)
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Five Days, Five Nights (1961)
Vanka (1960)
Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
Hard Happiness (1958)
Улица молодости (1958)
The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
It Began This Way... (1956)
Land and People (1956)
The Secret of Beauty (1955)
In Square 45 (1955)
Good Morning (1955)
The Country Doctor (1952)
Друзья из табора (1938)
Gavroche (1937)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1930-08-09
Deathday2021-03-05 (90 years old)
Birth PlaceIvanovo Oblast, Russia
CitizenshipsSoviet Union, Russia
Also Known AsНиколай Сморчков
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