Nikolai Okhlopkov

Biography

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Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov (15 May 1900 – 8 January 1967) was a Soviet actor and theatre director who patterned his work after Meyerhold. He was born in Irkutsk, Siberia and started his acting career there in 1918. Since 1930, he directed the Realistic Theatre in Moscow, although his directing style was hardly realistic: he was the first to place spectators on the stage around the actors, in order to restore intimacy between the audience and the company. In 1938, his theatre was closed and he moved to the Vakhtangov Theatre. In 1943 he established the Mayakovsky Theatre, which continues his traditions to this day. Okhlopkov was awarded the Stalin Prize and four USSR State Prizes. He also directed a production of Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1954, the first time this play was staged there since World War II. Okhlopkov died at Moscow in 1967.

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Known For

Yakov Sverdlov

Feodor Chaliapin

Alexander Nevsky

Vasili Buslai

Story of a Real Man

Kommissar Worobjew

Far from Moscow

Batmanov

Lenin in 1918

Vasili, Lenin's protege

Lenin in October

Vasily

Light over Russia

Anton Zabelin

Men and Jobs

Foreman Zakharov

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
1950	The Fires of Baku	Shatrov
1950	Far from Moscow	Batmanov
1948	Story of a Real Man	Kommissar Worobjew
1947	Light over Russia	Anton Zabelin
1943	1812	Gen. Barclay de Tolly
1940	Yakov Sverdlov	Feodor Chaliapin
1939	Lenin in 1918	Vasili, Lenin's protege
1938	Alexander Nevsky	Vasili Buslai
1937	Lenin in October	Vasily
1932	Men and Jobs	Foreman Zakharov
1928	Sold Appetite
1927	Mitya	Mitya
1926	The Bay of Death	Sailor
1926	The Traitor	Unknown sailor
1924	Banda batki Knysha	Violinist

Year	TV Show	Role