Shukur Burkhanov

Shukur Burkhanov (; 15 September 1910 – 15 August 1987) was a Soviet and Uzbek stage and film actor. He is recognized as People's artist of UzSSR

Burkhanov was born and grew up in Tashkent (then part of the Russian Empire) in a strict Muslim family. In order to join the Uzbek drama theatre, which was founded in the 1920s, he had to leave home because his family's orthodox religious beliefs forbade acting.

At the time Uzbek theatre was still in its infancy. In 1930 he received training at the Moscow Art Theatre, which he credited as enabling him to play classic roles such as Romeo, Hamlet, and Oedipus.

Burkhanov was involved in Uzbek cinema from its very inception. The Uzbekfilm studio typecast him as a rebel who challenged the old order and traditions.

In the early 1970s he was the subject of a documentary, People's Artist Shukur Burkhanov, narrated by fellow actor Boris Andreyev.

Awards

Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1945) Order of the Badge of Honour (1951) People's Artist of the USSR (1959) Two Orders of Lenin (1959, 1970) State Hamza Prize Order of the October Revolution (1980) Order of Outstanding Merit (2001, posthumous)

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1910 births

1987 deaths

20th-century Uzbekistani male actors

People from Syr-Darya Oblast

Actors from Tashkent

Communist Party of the Soviet Union members

People's Artists of the USSR

Recipients of the Order of Lenin

Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Male Shakespearean actors

Soviet male film actors

Soviet male stage actors

Uzbekistani male film actors

Uzbekistani male stage actors