Boris Chirkov

Boris Petrovich Chirkov (Борис Петрович Чирков; 13 August 1901, Brianka – 28 May 1982, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor and pedagogue. He appeared in 50 films between 1928 and 1975. He was awarded four Stalin Prizes: in 1941, 1947, 1949, and in 1952. People's Artist of the USSR (1950) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1975).

Selected filmography

 * My Son (1928) - Patashon
 * Luna sleva (1929) - Orskiy
 * Rodnoy brat (1929) - Grishka
 * Alone (1931) - Man Talking on the Phone
 * Pesnya o shchastye (1934) - Chief disciplinary section
 * Chapaev (1934) - Peasant
 * The Youth of Maxim (1935) - Maksim
 * Girl Friends (1936) - Senka
 * Lenochka i vinograd (1936)
 * The Return of Maxim (1937) - Maksim
 * The Defense of Volotchayevsk (1937) - Old Man
 * The Great Citizen (1938) - Maksim, the investigator
 * Chelovek s ruzhyom (1938) - Yevtushenko
 * The Vyborg Side (1938) - Maksim
 * Minin and Pozharsky (1939) - Roman
 * The New Teacher (1939) - Stepan Ivanovich Lautin
 * Boyevoy kinosbornik 3 (1941) - (segment "Antosha Rybkin")
 * This Is the Enemy (1942)
 * Aleksandr Parkhomenko (1942) - Nestor Makhno
 * Antosha Rybkin (1942) - Antosha Rybkin
 * The Front (1943) - Udivitelnyy
 * Partizany v stepyakh Ukrainy (1943) - Grandfather Taras
 * Kutuzov (1944) - Lavilov
 * Ivan Nikulin: Russian Sailor (1945) - Zakhar Fomichyov
 * The Great Glinka (1946) - Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
 * The Court of Honor (1948) - Andrey Vereyskiy akademik
 * Three Encounters (1949) - Nikanor Samoseev
 * Dream of a Cossack (1951) - Kondratyev
 * The Miners of Donetsk (1951) - Stepan Nedolya
 * The Boarder (1953)
 * True Friends (1954) - Chishov
 * Dimitrovgradtsy (1956) - Sobolev
 * For the Power of the Soviets (1956) - Secreatary Chernoivanenko
 * Svoimi rukami (1956) - Rudenko
 * Ryadom s nami (1958) - Stletov
 * Dorogoy moy chelovek (1958)
 * Kievlyanka (1958) - Yakov Petrovich Sereda
 * Mechty sbyvayutsya (1959) - Pavel Andreyevich Leshchuk
 * Poteryannaya fotografiya (1959)
 * Nasledniki (1960)
 * Svoya golova na plechakh (1961) - Kolkhoz Chairman
 * Gorizont (1962) - Likhobaba
 * A Trip Without a Load (1963) - Ded na aerodrome
 * Greshnyy angel (1963) - Religioznyy starik
 * Kain XVIII (1963) - Lavatory Worker
 * The Alive and the Dead (1964) - Gavrila Biryukov
 * Möcüzälär adasi (1964)
 * Golubaya chashka (1964)
 * Artakarg handznararutyun (1966) - Police spy
 * Pervyy posetitel (1966)
 * Myatezhnaya zastava (1967)
 * Seven Old Men and a Girl (1970, TV Movie)
 * Shutite? (1971) - (segment "Vanderbul' bezhit za gorizont")
 * Izhorskiy batalon (1972) - Vanechka
 * Po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu (1973)
 * Rosa (1975)
 * Gorozhane (1976) - Stariy master