Nikolay Gavrilovich Smorchkov (Russian: Риколай
Ð"аврилович Сморчков; born August 9, 1930, Ivankovo,
Ivanovo Oblast, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian film actor.Nikolay
Smorchkov was born on August 9, 1930 in the village of Ivankovo,
Gavrilovo-Posadsky District, in a large family 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 to remove his accenting accent. While
still in his second year in 1951, he played his first role in
Gerasimov's film The Rural 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.
Ð"аврилович Сморчков; born August 9, 1930, Ivankovo,
Ivanovo Oblast, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian film actor.Nikolay
Smorchkov was born on August 9, 1930 in the village of Ivankovo,
Gavrilovo-Posadsky District, in a large family 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 to remove his accenting accent. While
still in his second year in 1951, he played his first role in
Gerasimov's film The Rural 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.
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