Nikolay Smorchkov
Nikolay Smorchkov | |
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Born | Nikolay Gavrilovich Smorchkov 9 August 1930 |
Died | 7 March 2021 | (aged 90)
Occupation | actor |
Years active | 1951–2021 |
Spouse | Nina Alexandrovna Smorchkova[1] |
Children | 2 |
Nikolay Gavrilovich Smorchkov (Russian: Николай Гаврилович Сморчков; 9 August 1930 – 7 March 2021) was a Soviet and Russian film actor.
Biography
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.[2] In 1933, fleeing Collectivization, the family moved to the village of Orgtrud, which was not far from Vladimir (now the district of the city).[1] 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
He starred in more than 160 films.[1][4]
Smorchkov died on 7 March 2021 from COVID-19 amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. He was 90.[5][6]
Selected filmography
- The Village Doctor (1951) as Zhenya Strukov
- Mysterious Discovery (1953) as sailor
- True Friends (1954) as Alexey Mazayev
- The Cranes Are Flying (1957) as patient in hospital
- Ballad of a Soldier (1959) as soldier
- Female Age-Mates (1959) as Anikin
- Five Days, Five Nights (1960) as soldier
- Ivan's Childhood (1962) as petty officer
- War and Peace (1965—1967) as Russian soldier
- The Secret Agent's Blunder (1968) as freak
- The Red Tent (1969) as sailor
- Gentlemen of Fortune (1971) as police officer
- Liberation (1971) as captain Neustroyev's orderly
- Incorrigible Liar (1973) as MFA employee
- Earthly Love (1974) as builder
- Jarosław Dąbrowski (1976) as non-commissioned officer
- The Days of the Turbins(1976) as First Officer
- Destiny (1977) as partisan
- Air Crew (1979) as airport guard
- Fox Hunting (1980) as militiaman
- Tree Dzhamal (1981) as Gromov
- A Cruel Romance (1984) as Priest
- Alone and Unarmed (1984) as Treshchalov
- Promised Heaven (1991) as Timofeich
- The Thief (1997) as janitor
- Schizophrenia (1997) as police sergeant
- Tycoon (2002) as Old man
- Tins(2007) as veteran
- Space Dogs (2010) as Professor (voice)