Sergo Zakariadze

Sergo Zakariadze ( ; – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet and Georgian stage and film actor and pedagogue. He was awarded the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1958.

Zakariadze was born in Baku in 1909. He won several prizes, among them Best Actor honors at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival for his portrayal of an old peasant who joined the Red Army in order to find his son in the movie Father of a Soldier (Djariskatsis mama). His final role was in Bondarchuk's Waterloo as Prussian Marschall Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, just a few months before his death. He died in Tbilisi.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes1933 Ukanaskneli djvarosnebi Torgvai 1936 Dariko Simona 1940 Samshoblo Sardioni 1941 Megobroba Vardeni 1942 Giorgi Saakadze Shadiman Chavchavadze 1944 Kutuzov Prince Bagration 1948 Keto da Kote 1953 The Great Warrior Skanderbeg Laonicus 1960 Dge ukanaskneli, dge pirveli Giorgi 1962 Zgvis biliki Old sailor 1963 Paliastomi Ivane 1965 Father of a Soldier Giorgi Makharashvili 1966 Shekhvedra tsarsultan Almaskhani 1967 Male gazapkhuli mova Minago 1969 Don't Grieve Doctor Levan Tsintsadze 1970 Waterloo Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (final film role)

Awards

Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Medal "For Labour Valour" (1941) Honoured Artist of the Georgian SSR (1943) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1944) People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1946) Stalin Prize, 1st class (1946) Order of the Badge of Honour (1950) Stalin Prize, 2nd class (1952) People's Artist of the USSR (1958) Lenin Komsomol Prize (1965) Lenin Prize (1966) Order of Lenin (1967) Shota Rustaveli Prize (1971, posthumous)