---
name: "Stepan Shkurat"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stepan-shkurat"
fi1m_id: "stepan-shkurat"
imdb_id: "nm0794548"
tmdb_id: 1156066
wikidata_id: "Q4525346"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 January 1886"
died: "26 February 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T00:35:27.448149+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."
---

# Stepan Shkurat

## Identity

Stepan Shkurat

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/stepan-shkurat
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** stepan-shkurat
- **IMDb ID:** nm0794548
- **TMDB ID:** 1156066
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4525346
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4525346, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0794548/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1156066

Actor. Born 8 January 1886 in Kobeliaky, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]. Died 26 February 1973.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 January 1886, Kobeliaky, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire [now Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]
- **Died:** 26 February 1973
- **Also known as:** Шкурат Степан Йосипович
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4525346, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0794548/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1156066

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Earth*](https://film.one/film/earth.md) (85)

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## Biography

Stepan Shkurat was a Ukrainian Soviet actor known for his work in theatre and film. Born in 1886 in Kobeliaky, he began performing in amateur productions in Romny from 1905 and later joined the local people's theatre. He had no formal acting training and worked previously as a labourer and stovemaker.

Shkurat made his film debut in the late 1920s and gained prominence through roles in films by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, including *Earth* (1930) as Opanas and *Ivan* (1932). He appeared in *Chapayev* (1934) as Potapov, for which he received the title of Honoured Artist of the RSFSR in 1935. Later credits include *Natalka Poltavka* (1936) and *Viy* (1967) as Yavtukh. In 1971 he was named People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.

He continued performing into the 1960s and died in Romny in 1973.

*Sources: imdb.com, uk.wikipedia.org, wikidata.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Earth* (1930), Fi1m 85, as Opanas — [page](https://film.one/film/earth.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *Viy* (1967), as Yavtukh
- *Ukrainian Rhapsody* (1961), as grandfather
- *The Loose Woman* (1961), Actor
- *Shine, My Star* (1958), as Old miner
- *A Girl from the Lighthouse* (1957), as Panas Osipovich
- *Swallow* (1957), Actor
- *Stars On the Wings* (1955), as Fisherman
- *Friendship* (1941), Actor
- *Guerrilla Brigade* (1939), as Yakim Nedolya
- *Kubans* (1939), Actor
- *May Night* (1938), as Village Mayor
- *Cossacks Beyond the Danube* (1937), as Ivan Karas
- *Natalka Poltavka* (1936), as Mykola
- *Aerograd* (1935), as Vasyl Khudiakov
- *The Red Village* (1935), as Aleksandr Buntsevich
- *Chapayev* (1934), as Borozdin's striker
- *Ivan* (1932), as Stepan Iosovich Guba, the Idler
- *Maybe Tomorrow* (1932), as Kolkhoz worker
- *Night Raids* (1931), as Middle man
- *Fata Morgana* (1931), Actor
- *Earth* (1930), as Opanas — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/earth.md)
- *The Secret of Rapid* (1930), Actor
- *Volchi Tropy* (1930), as Shkurat, middle class
- *Downpour* (1929), as peasant Ivan · Casting

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