Nikolai Yeremenko Sr.
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Nikolai Nikolaevich Yeremenko Sr. (Belarusian: Мікалай Мікалаевіч Яроменка (старэйшы); (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Ерёменко-ста́рший) was a Belarusian Soviet film and theater actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1989).
Born
16 June 1926
Nikolai Nikolaevich Yeremenko
16 June 1926
OccupationsStage and film actor
Yearsactive1948-2000
Nikolai Yeremenko Sr. | |
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| Born | Nikolai Nikolaevich Yeremenko 16 June 1926 |
| Died | 30 June 2000 (aged 74) |
| Occupations | Stage and film actor |
| Years active | 1948-2000 |
| Spouse | Galina Orlova (born 1928) |
Member of the Great Patriotic War. He managed to survive in a Nazi concentration camp.[1][2]
After graduating in 1948, the studio theater of the Yakub Kolas Belarusian Drama Theater in Vitebsk, he became a theater actor (1948-1959). Since 1959 an actor of Yanka Kupala National Academic Theatre.
He began acting in films in 1960.
His son was also an actor, Nikolai Yeremenko Jr. (1949-2001).
Partial filmography
- Men and Beasts (1962) as Pavlov
- Flying Days (1966) as aviation regiment commander
- Liberation III: Direction of the Main Blow (1971) as Josip Broz Tito
- Hot Snow (1972) as Drozdovsky
- Sokolovo (1974) as aviation regiment commander
- Eternal Call (1976) as aviation regiment commander
- Soldiers of Freedom (1977) as Josip Broz Tito
- Petrovka, 38 (1980) as Militia General
- The Man Who Doesn't Return (1991) as Viktor Andreevich