Nikolay Okhlopkov

Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov (Russian: Никола́й Па́влович Охло́пков; 15 May 1900, Irkutsk – 8 January 1967, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and theatre director who patterned his work after Meyerhold.^[1] He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1948.^[2]

Biography

Okhlopkov was born in Irkutsk, Siberia, where he began his acting career in 1918. From 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.^[3] The Realistic Theatre was closed in 1938 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 Prizes six times. He also directed a production of Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1954, the first staging of this play after World War II.^[1]

Filmography

The Bay of Death (1926) as sailor
Lenin in October (1937) as Vasily, Lenin's bodyguard
Alexander Nevsky (1938) as Vasily Buslayev
Lenin in 1918 (1939) as Vasily, Lenin's bodyguard
Yakov Sverdlov (1940) as Feodor Chaliapin
Kutuzov (1943) as General of the Infantry Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
Light over Russia (1947) as Anton Ivanovich Zabelin, engineer
Tale of a True Man (1948) as commissar Vorobyov
Far from Moscow (1950) as Vasily Maksimovich Batmanov
The Lights of Baku (1950) as Fyodor Yakovlevich Shatrov

References

^ ^a ^b Smeliansky, Anatoly (1999). The Russian theatre after Stalin (PDF). Cambridge University Press. pp. 5–6. Retrieved 8 February 2011. Patrick Miles, translator.
^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 499–500. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
^ James Harbeck (Spring 1996). "Okhlopkov and the Nascence of the Postmodern" (PDF). Theatre InSight.

External links

Nikolay Okhlopkov at IMDb
Nikolay Okhlopkov at Find a Grave
Official site of the Mayakovsky Theatre (in Russian)

[Smeliansky-1] Smeliansky, Anatoly (1999). The Russian theatre after Stalin (PDF). Cambridge University Press. pp. 5–6. Retrieved 8 February 2011. Patrick Miles, translator.

[2] Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 499–500. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.

[3] James Harbeck (Spring 1996). "Okhlopkov and the Nascence of the Postmodern" (PDF). Theatre InSight.

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