Biography

Pavel Petrovich Kadochnikov (Russian: Павел Петрович Кадочников) (16 July [O.S. 29 July] 1915 – 2 May 1988) was a Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter. Among other notable roles he played in the film Ivan the Terrible, directed by Sergei Eisenstein. He received the Stalin Prize three times (1948, 1949, 1951), was named a People's Artist of the USSR (1979) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1985).