Nikolai Sergeyevich Plotnikov (; 5 November 1897 – 3 February 1979) was a Soviet film actor. He appeared in the 1949 biopic Ivan Pavlov.
Selected filmography
Dawn of Paris (1936) as General Dombrovsky
The Lonely White Sail (1937) as The Plainclothes Agent of the Tsar
The Oppenheim Family (1939) as Edgar Oppenheim
Lenin in 1918 (1939) as the kulak from Tamborsk
Gorky 2: My Apprenticeship (1939) as Nikiforytch
Gorky 3: My Universities (1940) as Nikiforytch
The Wedding (1944) as the best man
The Vow (1946) as Ivan Yermilov
The White Fang (1946) as Handsome Smith
Ivan Pavlov (1949) as Nikodin Vasilyevich
The Battle of Stalingrad (1949) as Commissioner Gurov
The Fall of Berlin (1950) as Walther von Brauchitsch
Least We Forget (1954) as Vsevolod Yevgenevich Yarchuk
Nine Days in One Year (1962) as Professor Sintsov
Your Contemporary (1967) as Professor Nitochkyn
The Seagull (1972) as Piotr Nikolaïévitch Sorin
Awards
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1933) Stalin Prize of the first degree (1947) People's Artist of the RSFSR (1957) People's Artist of the USSR (1966) All-Union Film Festival (1968) — Best Actor (Your Contemporary) Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (1968) — Best Actor (Your Contemporary) Stanislavsky State Prize of the RSFSR (1970) two Orders of Lenin (1972, 1977) Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1967) In Vyazma there is a street named after him.
References
Bibliography
Beumers, Birgit. Directory of World Cinema: Russia. Intellect Books, 2011.