Nicolas Koline
Russian actor
Nicolas Fjodorowitsch Koline (1878–1973) was a Russian stage and film actor. Before spending life in film, he began training as a teacher, retraining as an actor in 1907.He established himself in Russia as a stage performer with the First Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre. During his time at MAT he was known for performing in shows such as Twelfth Night, Click on the Furnace, and Selie Stepanchikov. As well as this, he worked alongside other students to stage the opera Eugene Onegin. He emigrated from Russia in 1920 after the October Revolution of 1917 alongside a Polish colleague named Richard Boleslavsky, staying in Poland for a time. In Poland, there were no theaters using the Russian language and for the time being he gave lectures on Russian literature until he could afford to move further. He later came to France where he first began starred in films featuring Russian immigrants such as L'Angoissante aventure, Lea Brasier ardent, Le Chant de l'amour triumphant, and Kean. He later worked with the La Chauve-Souris cabaret run by Nikita Balieff. In Paris he then joined Joseph Ermolieff's film company at Montreuil. Starting in 1928, he moved to Munich, Germany and began to star in German films such as Geheimnisse des Orients as well as the French-German film Varieté.
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