Nikolay Dupak

Nikolay Lukyanovich Dupak (; 5 October 1921 – 26 March 2023) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theatre director, the head of theatres. Front-line soldier of World War II. Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Merited Artist of Ukraine (2012), Honorary Artist of Moscow (2019).

Biography Born on 5 October 1921 in USSR in the village of Starobeshevo, Donetsk Oblast to a large family. Dupak was a fellow villager of Pasha Angelina. But when they began to shoot the picture, the war began. Nikolai joined the people's militia. Then he served in the cavalry, went through the entire Great Patriotic War. He was wounded and shell-shocked three times.

Dupak was the leading actor and director of the Moscow Stanislavsky Theater, acting in a number of films while there. Then he moved to Taganka Theatre. It was he who invited Yuri Lyubimov and Vladimir Vysotsky to the theater.

Selected filmography Dark Is the Night (1945) as Lieutenant Sannikov In the Mountains of Yugoslavia (1945) as adjutant The Forty-First (1956) as Chupilko Torrents of Steel (1967) as Volosatov Two Comrades Were Serving (1968) as army commander Intervention (1968) as Corporal Barbaru Bumbarash (1968) as Sovkov Eternal Call (1973) as Regional Committee Secretary Filimonov Captain Nemo (1975) as Colonel Bunro The Arrows of Robin Hood (1975) as miller, Maria's father Untypical Story (1977) as miller, Maria's father Life Is Beautiful (1979) as police commissioner The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (1983) as Abbot Aymer Love with Privileges (1989) as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR