About Nikolai Gritsenko
Lived 1912 – 1979 (aged 67). Nikolai Gritsenko was a Russian actor, film actor and stage actor.
Nikolai Olimpievich Gritsenko or Mykola Olimpiiovych Hrytsenko (December 8, 1979) was a Soviet theater and film actor. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1942 and 1978. Gritsenko also was a member of the Vakhtangov Theatre company in Moscow. There he was designated Honored Artist of the RSFSR and People's Artist of the USSR. He died on 8 December 1979 after a "conflict" with patients at a hospital he was staying in, and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
Partial filmography
Mashenka (1942) – Kolya (1946) – Lt. Anton Petrovich Fadeev Farewell, America (1949) Dream of a Cossack (1951) – Artamashov The Night Before Christmas (1951) – Vakula (voice) Hostile Whirlwinds (1953) – Schreder Marina's Destiny (1953) – Terenty The Safety Match (1954) – Psekov, estate manager A Big Family (1954) – club manager The Road (1955) – Ivan Alekseevich The Sisters (1957) (1958) (1959) – Vadim Roshchin Wind of Freedom (1961) – Georg Stan Barrier of the Unknown (1962) – Vadim Lagin Ponedelnik: den tyazhyolyy (1964) – Kuzma Yegorovich Stryapkov (1964) – Aleksandr Gratsiyansky (1964) – Fedor Zhurbenko Man without a Passport (1966) – Pyotr Izmaylov (1966) – Colonel Miller (1967) – Saveliy Petrovich Fisyuk Anna Karenina (1967) – Karenin (1968) A Little Crane (1969) – Markelov Razvyazka (1969) – Terekhov The Adjutant of His Excellency (1970, TV Series) – Vikentiy Pavlovich Speransky Family Happiness (1970) – Vaksin (1970) – Reichenberg Schastye Anny (1971) – Prokhor Lychkov (1971) – Vasil Mironovich The Land of Sannikov (1973) - Trifon Stepanovich Perfilyev, gold mines (1973) – Ananiy Mytnikov Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973, TV Mini-Series) – general in the train The Land of Sannikov (1973) – Trifon Perfilyev (1973) – baron Erich von Ostenfelzen Doker (1973) (1974) – Anton Trofimovich Gulyayev (1976) – Pyotr Yegorovich Stazhyor (1976) – Aleksandr Trofimov (1978) – General Pechenegov (1978) – Varlamtsev Father Sergius (1979) – General Korotkov (1979)
Awards Stanislavsky State Prize of the RSFSR
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Who was Nikolai Gritsenko?
actor (1912–1979)
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Nikolai Gritsenko was born on 11 July 1912 in Yasynuvata.
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Nikolai Gritsenko died on 8 December 1979 in Moscow.
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Nikolai Gritsenko was an actor, film actor and stage actor.
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Nikolai Gritsenko was Russian.
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