Nikolai Grinko

Nikolai Grigoryevich Grinko or Mykola Hryhorovych Hrynko (Микола Григорович Гринько; Никола́й Григо́рьевич Гринько́; 22 May 1920 – 10 April 1989) was a Soviet and Ukrainian actor.

Biography
Nikolai Grinko was born on 22 May 1920 ) in Kherson, then in Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). He died on 10 April 1989 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Ukraine).

His wife was Ayshe Rafetovna Chulak-ogly (born 1932), a violinist of the State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra of the Ukrainian SSR, a jazz-symphonic ensemble Dnepr.

Career
In 1961, Mykola Hrynko switched to cinema. But at his "native" Dovzhenko Film Studio, he was not considered a "native" actor, he was filmed very little, and was not offered any leading roles. His screenplay for Ivan Franko's Stolen Happiness had been lying in the studio offices for 6 years and was put on the shelf.

Grinko is well known for his roles in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, including: Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, and Stalker.

He also starred in the 1981 film Teheran 43.

Selected filmography

 * Peace to Him Who Enters (1961) − Shofyor-amerikanets
 * Ivan's Childhood (1962) − Gryaznov
 * Velká cesta (1963) − Velitel brigády
 * Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) − Vatag
 * War and Peace (1966−1967, part 1, 3) − Dessalles
 * Andrei Rublev (1966) − Daniil Chyorny
 * Subject for a Short Story (1969) − Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
 * Dangerous Tour (1969) − Andrei Maksimovich
 * Solaris (1972) − Nik Kelvin, father of Kris Kelvin
 * A Lover's Romance (1974) − Vitse-admiral
 * Adventures in a City that does not Exist (1974) − Don Quixote
 * Mirror (1975) − Printing house director
 * Afonya (1975) − dyadya Yego
 * Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches (1975) − otets Mukhina
 * The Adventures of Buratino (1976, TV Movie) − Papa Carlo
 * One−Two, Soldiers Were Going... (1977) − polkovnik, komandir Konstantina
 * Twenty Days Without War (1977) − polkovnik Aleksandrov
 * Osvobození Prahy (1977) − General Omar Bradley
 * Stalker (1979) − Professor
 * The Adventures of the Elektronic (1979, TV Mini−Series) − Professor Gromov
 * The Bodyguard (1979)
 * The Youth of Peter the Great (1980) − Nektaryi
 * At the Beginning of Glorious Days (1980)
 * Teheran 43 (1981) − Hermolin
 * Be My Husband (1981) − Holiday–maker, husband of the theatregoer