Personal Info
Birth date
1920-05-22 (105 Years)
Day of death
1989-04-10
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Also known as
Микола Гринько
Гринько Микола Григорович
Mykola Hrynko
Николай Гринько
Nikolay Grinko
Biography
Nikolai Grigoryevich Grinko or Mykola Hryhorovych Hrynko (Ukrainian: Микола Григорович Гринько; Russian: Николай Григорьевич Гринько) was a Soviet and Ukrainian actor. His film debut was in the role of a rebel in the film "Taras Shevchenko" by Igor Savchenko. He is best known for his roles in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, including: Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rubliov, Solaris, Mirror, and Stalker, as well as Sergei Parajanov's "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors".
Filmography
The Adventures of the Electronic
7
Overview:
A Soviet scientist creates a brilliant robot. This is a boy who is able to solve any mathematical problems, he writes the best essays and sings perfectly! And he is also an exact copy of schoolboy Seryozha Syroezhkin. A clever boy quickly shifts all his duties to an electronic double. He does his homework for him, goes to school and does household chores that his parents entrust to Syroezhkin...Stalker
8.1
Overview:
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.Solaris
7.8
Overview:
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.Andrei Rublev
7.974
Overview:
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.Mirror
7.96
Overview:
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.Ivan's Childhood
7.819
Overview:
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.War and Peace
7.577
Overview:
A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.Afonya
7.883
Overview:
The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even remember after nights of heavy drinking. His wife leaves him, his boss places him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. Afonya met Katya at a dance club, yet didn't pay her much attention. But she is the one, who can save him... In this movie Daneliya achieves a perfect balance of satire and drama. Quotes from the movie gained a cult status in USSR.Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
7.601
Overview:
In the Carpathian Mountains of 19th-century Ukraine, love, hate, life and death among the Hutsul people are as they’ve been since time began. Ivan is drawn to Marichka, the beautiful young daughter of the man who killed his father. But fate tragically decrees that the two lovers will remain apart.The Adventures of Buratino
6.65
Overview:
A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the Tortoise.100 grams for Bravery
5.917
Overview:
The movie consists of three short stories that share a common satirical theme: alcoholism and drunkenness. The stories are "Such an imprudence!," "According to the laws of hospitality," "100 grams for bravery".Teheran '43
6.232
Overview:
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni, living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise, a young French woman, who hides him.Car, Violin and Blot the Dog
5
Overview:
A fantasy story about five-grades - musician and engineer, their friend - the most beautiful girl in the world, her brother who dreams to turn all cats into monkeys, his dog Klyaksa and a lot more stuff…Twenty Days Without War
6.655
Overview:
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war.Be My Husband
6.925
Overview:
The children's doctor is sent on leave to the south where its services in quality "husband" were necessary for young and very beautiful woman.The Adventures of the Electronic
6.95
Overview:
Professor Gromov constructs a robot called Electronic, which looks exactly like Sergey Syroezhkibn, a 6-grader from one of Odessa (USSR) schools. The robot also acts a lot like a human, and its dream is to become a real man. Electronic escapes from the professor's lab and accidentally meets Sergey, his prototype. Meanwhile, a gang lead by Stump is trying to kidnap Electronic to make him steal pictures from museums. For this purpose they send their hitman Urrie.Starling and Lyre
5.5
Overview:
Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War are tasked with settling in Germany. Personnel intelligence officers with vast experience are successfully introduced into German society and begin to work actively. At the end of the war, during the bombing of Berlin, fate separates them, but then they will meet in the new Germany and continue their work.One of Us
4.5
Overview:
April 1941. According to intelligence received by the Chekists, a fascist sabotage group plans to blow up one of Moscow's defense plants. To find out the plans of saboteurs working under the auspices of the German embassy, the NKVD sends one of its best employees, Sergei Biryukov, to the plant. He finds contact with the fascist agent Keller and finds out that the explosion is scheduled for June 21...Yuliya Vrevskaya
3.3
Overview:
The film is based on a true dramatic story of the fate of a wonderful Russian woman - Countess Yulia Petrovna Vrevskaya, one of the first Petersburg beauties. The events of the movie take place during the Russian-Turkish war for the liberation of the Bulgarian people from the Turkish yoke. An early widowed baroness, having left Petersburg, and having invested all her money in organizing a volunteer sanitary detachment, she becomes a sister of mercy on the front of the Bulgarian war with the Ottoman Empire of 1878.War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
7.642
Overview:
In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the upcoming confrontation between the armies. During the Battle of Borodino, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Bolkonsky's unit waits in the reserve, but he is hit by a shell. Both Anatol and Bolkosnky suffer severe wounds. The French Army is victorious and advances on Moscow.The Lost Expedition
4.8
Overview:
An expedition of a few geologists is going to Siberia in order to found a gold sources during 1918.The Bodyguard
4.5
Overview:
The setting is Central Asia during the Russian civil war. In the post-revolutionary twenties, when the power in European Russia was (officially) "fully in the hands of the workers and peasants", but the fight against the Basmachi rebels was in full swing. When a Red Army detachment captures Sultan Mazar, the brains behind the Bazmachi contingent, a decision is made to escort urgently the prisoner to the Bukhara province. The difficult mission is entrusted to a grizzled mountain trapper and conscientious revolutionary called Mirzo. His expertise is essential to traverse the precarious paths and steep mountain ridges along the way, impossible terrain for the inexperienced. A group consisting of Mirzo, his brother Kova, the Sultan, his daughter Zaranghis and slave Saifulla set off on this journey. They are forced to fight on the mountain ridges as well as negotiate the natural dangers and harsh elements.Singing Russia
NYR
Overview:
The film tells about the founder of the first Russian peasant choir Mitrofan Efimovich Pyatnitskiy, about his life, tragic love and other facts of his biography. The picture reflects the musical life of Russia in the pre-revolutionary period.Having Lied Once...
3.8
Overview:
Set in the Soviet Union the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks.The Youth of Peter
6.4
Overview:
The years of the tsar’s adolescence and youth were permeated with deadly danger coming from some of the Boyars, the rebellious Streltsy and Tsarevna Sophia who aspired for power. But already at that early time Peter demonstrates a profound, bright intellect, a strong will and the sense of purpose, which help him disarm both his open and secret enemies.Acting
2007Hamburg Dockland (1 Episode) as Waldemar Rebel
1993To Remember (1 Episode) as archivefootage
1989I'm Offering My Hand and Heart as Unknown
1988It's Not Always Summer in Crimea as Unknown
1988Having Lied Once... as Unknown
1987Meaning of Life as Unknown
1987Ginger Fairy as Grandfather
1987To Go Out of a Forest Into a Clearing as учитель
1986Appeal as Unknown
1986Singing Russia as Unknown
1986On the Heights as Unknown
1986The Wedding Is Accused as Ivan Timofeevich
1986To proceed with the investigation. Movie 2: Slander as Unknown
1985Two Knew the Password as Unknown
1985About You as father
1985A Million in a Wedding Basket as Del Simone
1985Unknown Soldier (3 Episodes) as дедушка «Кроша»
1985Идущий следом as Unknown
1985My Sister Lucy as Ilya Lyova
1984No Right to Fail as Unknown
1984The Unknown Soldier as Grandfather
1984Here is your front as Unknown
1984Birthday as Unknown
1983Happiness of Nikifor Bubnov as Unknown
1983How I Was a Prodigy as Unknown
1983Mirgorod and Its Inhabitants as Ivan Ivanovich
1982Colonel Shaligin's Waiting as полковник Шалыгин
1982Smiles of Nechiporovka as Unknown
1982Behind the Old Fence as Unknown
1982Deer Hunting as Unknown
1982The Last Game as Unknown
1982Space for Maneuver as Unknown
1981I'm Staying with You as Горелов
1981Two Long Hoots in the Fog as Фёдор Петрович Калашников, капитан теплохода (озв. Александр Демьяненко)
1981Teheran '43 as Ermolin - resident of the NKGB USSR
1981The Order: Do Not Open Fire as Razin
1981Be My Husband as курортник
1981A Mystery Known to All as старший пират Толстяк
1981The Youth of Peter as Nektaryi
1981От Буга до Вислы as Коротченко
1981Citizen Lyoshka as Unknown
1981What's There Around the Bend? as Unknown
1980Solo as Aleksandr Mihaylovich
1980The Adventures of the Electronic (3 Episodes) as Профессор Громов
1980The Adventures of the Electronic as Professor Gromov
1980Pie With a Laughingstock as (voice)
1980One Day I Came Home as Stetsko (voice)
1979Поездка через город as Unknown
1979Last Hunt as Unknown
1979Stalker as Professor
1979Подпольный обком действует (1 Episode) as Demyan Sergeyevich Korotchenko
1979The Bodyguard as Nikolai Grigorievich
1978While the Dream is Mad as Unknown
1978Accidental Passengers as Unknown
1978Who Will go to Truskavets? as Unknown
1978Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians... as tovarish Demyan
1978The Feast of the Baked Potato as Unknown
1977Yuliya Vrevskaya as Savashevich
1977Такая она игра as Лавров Валерий — дирек. фут. клуба высшей лиги
1977100 grams for Bravery as Nikitin
1977The Liberation of Prague as General Bradley
1977Timur and His Team as Unknown
1977The Retired Colonel as Корней Корнеевич Полунин
1976Twenty Days Without War as Vyacheslav
1976Vesnukhin's Fantasies as Uncle Styopa, Militiaman
1976One-Two, Soldiers Were Going... as Полковник
1976Equilibrist as конюх Василий
1976Afonya as дядя Егор
1976Приключения Буратино (2 Episodes) as Папа Карло
1975The Adventures of Buratino as Papa Carlo / Папа Карло
1975The Lost Expedition as Аркадий Николаевич Смелков (профессор)
1975Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches as Father
1975Mirror as Printery Director
1975At the Black Sea as Unknown
1974Good luck! as Ivan Kuzmich
1974Romance for Lovers as Vice-Admiral
1974Under a Stone Sky as Старостин
1974Vesenniye perevyortyshi as Unknown
1974Housewarming as Unknown
1974Starling and Lyre as "Uncle Vanya"
1974Car, Violin and Blot the Dog as папа Олега, музыкант на контрабасе
1974Adventures in the City which Doesn't Exist as Don Quixote
1974The Cities and the Years as Лепендин
1974Each Evening After Work as head teacher
1973Ring as Unknown
1973Romashkin Effect as Аристарх Иванович Занозов
1973Meetings and Partings as Unknown
1972Night Motorcyclist as Boris Mikhaylovich Komarovskiy
1972Commissioner Berlach's Last Case as Unknown
1972Solaris as Kelvin's Father
1972Rudobel Republic as Unknown
1972Море в огне as Unknown
1971The Commissars as Arefiev
1971Black Sun as Jean Barthes
1971Лада из страны берендеев as министр
1971The Golden Gates as Bishop
1971One of Us as Keller
1969Dangerous Tour as Andrei Maksimovich / Viscount de Cordel
1969Subject for a Short Story as Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
1969Only Three Nights as Unknown
1968One Chance in One Thousand as Denis Korneyevich Prokhorenko
1968Quiet Odesa as Zolotarenko
1968War and Peace as Desalles
1967War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 as Desalles
1967Buryan as Mironov, secretary of the Party Committee
1967Avdotya Pavlovna as Иван (директор школы)
1966Andrei Rublev as Daniil Chornyy
1966Death of the Squadron as Артём
1966We Are Russian People as Ivan Chortomlyk
1965No Unknown Soldiers as Military physician
1965Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors as Batag
1964A Dream as Unknown
1963A Great Road Ahead as brigade commander
1962Funny Stories as дядя Боря
1962Ivan's Childhood as Gryaznov
1962Only the Statues Are Silent as Unknown
1961Peace to Him Who Enters as шофёр-американец
1956Some Guy as рабочий Сарафанов
1956Pavel Korchagin as Unknown