Nikolai Kryuchkov

Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (Никола́й Афана́сьевич Крючко́в; 6 January 1911 – 13 April 1994) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1932 and 1993.

Selected filmography

 * Outskirts (1933)
 * By the Bluest of Seas (1936)
 * The Return of Maxim (1937)
 * The Vyborg Side (1939)
 * Salavat Yulayev (1941)
 * They Met in Moscow (1941)
 * In the Rear of the Enemy (1941)
 * In the Name of the Fatherland (1943)
 * Heavenly Slug (1945)
 * Happy Flight (1949)
 * The Battle of Stalingrad (1949)
 * The Lights of Baku (1950)
 * Sporting Honour (1951)
 * Bountiful Summer (1951)
 * The Star (1953)
 * Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse (1955)
 * The Forty-First (1956)
 * Leningrad Symphony (1957)
 * Over Tissa (1958)
 * Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
 * Cruelty (1959)
 * Hussar Ballad (1962)
 * Balzaminov's Marriage (1964)
 * Come Here, Mukhtar! (1965)
 * There Was an Old Couple (1965)
 * Give me a complaints book (1965)
 * Two Comrades Were Serving (1968)
 * Town People (1975)
 * Autumn Marathon (1979)
 * Battle of Moscow (1985)
 * Stalingrad (1989)

Awards and honors

 * Three Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1939, 1967, 1971)
 * Two Orders of Lenin (1940, 1980)
 * Stalin Prize, 1st class (1941)
 * Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1942)
 * Order of the Red Star (1944)
 * People's Artist of the RSFSR (1950)
 * People's Artist of the USSR (1965)
 * Order of the October Revolution (1974)
 * Hero of Socialist Labour (1980)
 * Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (1985)
 * Nika Award for the Lifetime Achievement Award (1991)