---
name: "Pavel Kadochnikov"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/pavel-kadochnikov"
fi1m_id: "pavel-kadochnikov"
imdb_id: "nm0434387"
tmdb_id: 233375
wikidata_id: "Q384090"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "28 July 1915"
died: "2 May 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T03:41:11.126466+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Pavel Kadochnikov

## Identity

Pavel Kadochnikov

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/pavel-kadochnikov
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** pavel-kadochnikov
- **IMDb ID:** nm0434387
- **TMDB ID:** 233375
- **Wikidata ID:** Q384090
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Kadochnikov, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q384090, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0434387/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/233375

Actor. Born 28 July 1915 in Petrograd, Russian Empire. Died 2 May 1988.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 July 1915, Petrograd, Russian Empire
- **Died:** 2 May 1988
- **Active:** 1944–1958
- **Also known as:** Pavel Petrovich Kadochnikov, N. Kadochnikov, P. Kadochnikov, Pavel Kadocnikov, Pavel Kadoçnikov, П. Кадочников, Павел Петрович Кадочников
- **Frequently works with:** [Mikhail Zharov](https://film.one/person/mikhail-zharov.md), [Nikolay Cherkasov](https://film.one/person/nikolai-cherkasov.md), [Serafima Birman](https://film.one/person/serafima-birman.md), [Sergei Eisenstein](https://film.one/person/sergei-eisenstein.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 80 (1), 1950s 64 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Kadochnikov, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q384090, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0434387/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/233375

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Ivan the Terrible, Part I*](https://film.one/film/ivan-the-terrible-part-i.md) (80), [*Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot*](https://film.one/film/ivan-the-terrible-part-ii-the-boyars-plot.md) (64)

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## Biography

Pavel Petrovich Kadochnikov was a Soviet actor, film director, screenwriter and theatre pedagogue. He trained at the Leningrad Theatrical Institute, graduating in 1935, and began his screen career the same year.

He is known for playing Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky in Sergei Eisenstein's *Ivan the Terrible, Part I* (1944) and *Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot* (1958). Other notable screen roles include Major Fedotov in *Secret Agent* (1947), Aleksey Meresyev in *The Story of a Real Man* (1948) and appearances in *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson* (1980) and *Dark Eyes* (1987).

Kadochnikov received the Stalin Prize three times (1948, 1949, 1951). He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1979 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1985.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot* (1958), Fi1m 64, as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky — [page](https://film.one/film/ivan-the-terrible-part-ii-the-boyars-plot.md)
- *Ivan the Terrible, Part I* (1944), Fi1m 80, as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky — [page](https://film.one/film/ivan-the-terrible-part-i.md)

## Complete filmography (73)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Memories of Sherlock Holmes* (2000), series, as Major Sholto
- *Silver Strings* (1988), Director, Writer
- *Defeat* (1987), Actor
- *Dark Eyes* (1987), as 1e Funzionario Pietroburgo
- *Я — вожатый форпоста* (1986), Actor
- *Picture* (1985), series, as Юрий Емельянович Поливанов
- *Three Percent of Danger* (1985), as Хлебников
- *I Will Never Forget You* (1984), Director, Screenplay
- *The Last Visit* (1984), Actor
- *The Sparkling World* (1984), as Saddi Daugavet / Chappy Daugavet
- *The Blonde Around the Corner* (1984), Actor
- *Our Calling* (1984), as Николай Гудков
- *Quarantine* (1983), as Academician Silantyev, Masha's Great-grandfather
- *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra* (1983), as Major Sholto
- *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra - Part 1* (1983), as Major Sholto
- *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Treasures of Agra* (1983), series, as major Sholto
- *Crazy Money* (1981), as Kuchumov
- *Lenin in Paris* (1981), as Paul Lafargue
- *Missing among the Living* (1981), Actor
- *Sold Laughter* (1981), as Baron Lefuet (Trech)
- *The Sicilian Defence* (1981), as Андриан Константинович - директор музея
- *Two Lines in Small Font* (1981), Actor
- *An Ideal Husband* (1980), as Lord Caversham
- *Santa Esperansa* (1980), Actor
- *Oblomov* (1980), as episode
- *Just Don't Cry* (1980), Actor
- *Marta the Pious Woman* (1980), as Captain Urbina
- *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson* (1980), series, as Major Sholto, Mrs. Smith (мать Джека, жена Мордекая Смита)
- *Story of an Unknown Man* (1980), Actor
- *Catch the Wind* (1979), as Сергей Сергеевич Уваров
- *Siberiade* (1979), as Eternal Grandfather
- *Seagulls Never Fly Here* (1978), as Uncle Roman
- *The Life of Beethoven* (1978), Actor
- *An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano* (1977), as Ivan Ivanovich Triletsky
- *Eleven Hopes* (1976), as зритель на корриде
- *The Winds Blow in Baku* (1974), as Kashtanov
- *TsOKS in Alma-Ata* (1974), Actor
- *The Return of the Violin* (1973), as Makovski
- *Proshchaniye s Peterburgom* (1971), Actor
- *Next to a Friend* (1970), Actor
- *The Snow Maiden* (1968), as Tsar Berendey · Director, Screenplay
- *Prodavets Vozdukha* (1967), as Professor Engelbrecht
- *Musicians of the Same Regiment* (1965), Director
- *State Offender* (1964), as Алексей Басов
- *The Slowest Train* (1963), Actor
- *Russian Souvenir* (1960), as Homer Jones
- *Bread and Roses* (1960), Actor
- *Iriston's Son* (1959), as Dzhambul Dzakhsorov
- *Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot* (1958), as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/ivan-the-terrible-part-ii-the-boyars-plot.md)
- *Baltic Glory* (1958), as командир эсминца «Гром»
- *Under the Golden Eagle* (1958), as Andrey Makarov
- *Honeymoon* (1956), as Aleksei Rybalchenko
- *Prolog* (1956), Actor
- *Talents and Admirers* (1956), Actor
- *Road to Life* (1955), as Aleksei Maximovich "Maxim" Gorky
- *A Big Family* (1954), as Skobelev
- *Tiger Girl* (1954), as Fyodor Yermolayev
- *The Boys from Leningrad* (1954), as Dedushkin Svetlanov
- *Far from Moscow* (1950), as Kovshov
- *Conspiracy of the Doomed* (1950), as Maks Venta
- *They Have a Motherland* (1949), as Добрынин
- *Story of a Real Man* (1948), as Aleksei Meresyev
- *The Precious Seed* (1948), Actor
- *Secret Agent* (1947), as Mayor Alexei Fedotov
- *Blue Roads* (1947), as Ratanov
- *Robinson Crusoe* (1947), as Robinson Crusoe
- *Hello, Moscow!* (1945), as Konstantin Nikolaevich Zlatogorov (uncredited)
- *Ivan the Terrible, Part I* (1944), as Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/ivan-the-terrible-part-i.md)
- *Defense of Tsaritsyn* (1942), Actor
- *Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry* (1941), as Alexey Mukhin · composer
- *Defeat of Yudenich* (1941), Actor
- *Yakov Sverdlov* (1940), as Maxim Gorky
- *Coming of Age* (1935), as Mikhas'

## Gallery

- ![Pavel Kadochnikov](https://film.one/media/person/3859932/gallery-f4da300ee0db.jpg) Pavel Kadochnikov — Apollinariy Dudko, Lenfilm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Pavel_Kadochnikov_-_Tamer_of_Tigers_-_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Киноартист Павел Кадочников с сыном читают корреспонденцию. Фото Н. Драчинского. 1950 год. Главархив Москвы](https://film.one/media/person/3859932/gallery-586a344a6bdb.jpg) Киноартист Павел Кадочников с сыном читают корреспонденцию. Фото Н. Драчинского. 1950 год. Главархив Москвы — Н. Драчинский, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D1%81_%D1%81%D1%8B%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%8E%D1%82_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8E.jpg/1280px-%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D1%81_%D1%81%D1%8B%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%8E%D1%82_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8E.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Pavel Kadochnikov](https://film.one/media/person/3859932/gallery-31f5c047a7ec.jpg) Pavel Kadochnikov — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 11 won

- Hero of Socialist Labour 1985: Hero of Socialist Labour (won)
- Order of Lenin 1985: Order of Lenin (won)
- People's Artist of the USSR 1979: People's Artist of the USSR (won)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples 1975: Order of Friendship of Peoples (won)
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" 1970: Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (won)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour 1967: Order of the Red Banner of Labour (won)
- People's Artist of the RSFSR 1965: People's Artist of the RSFSR (won)
- Stalin Prize 1951: Stalin Prize (won)
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR 1950: Honored Artist of the RSFSR (won)
- Stalin Prize 1949: Stalin Prize (won)
- Stalin Prize 1948: Stalin Prize (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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