Nikolay Zasukhin

Nikolay Zasukhin

Known for: Actor

Born: April 7, 1922 Died: August 25, 1992

Place of birth: village Ivashchenkovo, Samara uyezd, Samara Governorate, RSFSR [now Chapayevsk, Samara Oblast, Russia]

Nikolay Zasukhin is Soviet theater and film actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1964).He served in the Red Army since 1940 for six years. Then in 1947-1948 he studied at the studio at the Kuybyshev Gorkiy Theater, became an actor of this theater and served on this stage until 1972. Since 1972 - at the Moscow Art Theater named after Maksim Gorkiy.The manner of Nikolay Zasukhin was inherent in temperament, soft humor, the desire for internal reincarnation, plasticity and a sharp drawing of the role. In the numerous troupe of the Moscow Art Theater, the actor worked less than in Kuybyshev and after the split of the theater went to the theater of T. Doronina.Zasukhin starred in films infrequently, playing mainly officials and party workers: Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (Tvoy sovremennik (1968)), Vladimir Lenin (Poyezd v zavtrashniy den (1970)), Smolentsev (Komitet 19-ti (1972)), Vladimir Sharapov (Gonki po vertikali (1982)), Semyon Nikodimov (At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own (1974)), Aleksey Zheleznenkiy (Razvlechenie dlya starichkov (1977)), Fyodor Kovalev (Legko byt dobrym (1976)). In a number of films he played Vyacheslav Molotov, thanks to outward resemblance.