Nikitin Fedor Mikhailovich (1900-1988), film director

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NIKITIN Fedor Mikhailovich (1900-1988), actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1969). A student of MKhT School Studio, he worked in theatres of Odessa and Moscow from 1917. In 1926 he came to Leningrad and worked in the Bolshoy Dramatic Theatre and the New Theatre of Young Spectators. He played his first role in a film in 1918. In 1926, he started his cooperation with Friedrich Ermler. Roles in Ermler's films were his most successful: Vadka (Katka's Reinette Apples, 1926), Musician (The House in the Snow-Drifts, 1927), Kirik Rudenko (The Parisian Cobbler, 1927), and Filimonov (Fragment of an Empire, 1929). During the war he worked in the Blockade Theatre and the Theater of People's Militia. In 1948, he returned to Lenfilm. His roles include Rublev (The Great Force, Friedrich Ermler, 1949), and Dargomyzhsky (Musorgsky, Grigory Rochal, 1950; the Stalin Prize winner). He received the diploma for the best actor in Life, and Tears, and Love... (1984, by Nikolay Gubenko). His last Leningrad address was 1/7 Dmitrovsky Lane.

References: Бродянский Б. Л. Фёдор Никитин. М.; Л., 1929; Калентьева А. Фёдор Никитин // Актеры советского кино. М., 1968. Вып. 4. С. 123-133.

I. V. Sepman. Ermler Friedrich Markovich
Gubenko Nikolay Nikolaevich
Nikitin Fedor Mikhailovich
Roshal Grigory Lvovich
Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) Iosif Vissarionovich
Dmitrovsky Lane/Saint Petersburg, city, house 1/7
Бродянский Б. Л. Фёдор Никитин. М.; Л., 1929
Калентьева А. Фёдор Никитин // Актеры советского кино. М., 1968 Tovstonogov Bolshoy Drama Theatre
Lenfilm, Film Studio