Nicolas Rimsky
Nicolas Rimsky (born Nikolai Alexandrovich Kurmashov; 18 February 1886 – 5 September 1941) was a Russian-French film actor, director and writer. In 1931, he directed and starred in Pas sur la bouche (Not on the Mouth), based on an operetta by André Barde. In The Happy Death (L'heureuse mort, 1924, with a screenplay by Rimsky from the story by Countess Baillehache) he plays an unsuccessful and unpleasant playwright who suddenly becomes much more successful when he is believed drowned (and also plays his brother who turns up for the funeral).
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- Name
- Nicolas Rimsky
- Birth Name
- Nikolai Alexandrovich Kurmashov
- Born
- 18 February 1886
- Birthplace
- Moscow, Russia
- Died
- 5 September 1941 18 February 1886
- Place of death
- Marseille, France
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- actor · screenwriter · director
- Languages
- French
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Nicolas Rimsky (born Nikolai Alexandrovich Kurmashov; 18 February 1886 – 5 September 1941) was a Russian-French film actor, director and writer. In 1931, he directed and starred in Pas sur la bouche (Not on the Mouth), based on an operetta by André Barde. In The Happy Death (L'heureuse mort, 1924, with a screenplay by Rimsky from the story by Countess Baillehache) he plays an unsuccessful and unpleasant playwright who suddenly becomes much more successful when he is believed drowned (and also plays his brother who turns up for the funeral).
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Linda Williams, who calls Rimsky a "great comedian", praises his performance as "a gem of comic timing". Leonard Maltin said the film's "cynical take on the nature of celebrity makes it seem quite modern". He also starred in comedy Because I Love You (Parce Que Je T'Aime, 1929) as a professor who marries his secretary then loses her affections to his godson.
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• Name — Nicolas Rimsky • Birth Name — Nikolai Alexandrovich Kurmashov • Born — 18 February 1886 • Birthplace — Moscow, Russia • Died — 5 September 1941 18 February 1886 • Place of death — Marseille, France • Other Names — Nicolai Rimsky Nikolai Rimsky Rimsky • Years Active — 1916–1940
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Selected filmography
• Father Sergius (1918) • That Scoundrel Morin (1924) • The Masked Woman (1924) • Paris in Five Days (1926) • The Porter from Maxim's (1927) • Immorality (1928) • Cagliostro (1929) • The Patriot (1938) • Threats (1940)
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- 1.Erickson, Hal. Pas sur la bouche. Allmovie.
- 2.The 15th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival. DVD Talk.
- 3.Williams, Linda. What's New. Film Quarterly. 63. 3. 52–54. 2010. 10.1525/fq.2010.63.3.52.
- 4.Maltin, Leonard. Silent Films Live Again. Indiewire.
- 5.Erickson, Hal. Parce-Que Je T'Aime. The New York Times. 2015.
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