Biography
Konstantin Pavlovich Kadochnikov was a Soviet actor. Born Konstantin Pavlovich Nikitin on 3 January 1932 in Leningrad, he was the son of actor and director Pavel Petrovich Kadochnikov and theatre director Tatiana Nikolaevna Nikitina.
He trained at the Leningrad Theatrical Institute named after A. N. Ostrovsky and worked at the Leningrad Academic Drama Theatre named after V. F. Komissarzhevskaya. Kadochnikov made his screen debut as Volodya in Mikhail Kalatozov's The Cranes Are Flying (1957), credited as K. Nikitin. He appeared in a small number of other Soviet films, including Na odnoy planete (1966) and Ya tebya nikogda ne zabudu (1983).
Kadochnikov died in 1984 in Odessa.
