Soviet communist. Judge at some of the most "famous" trails of Stalin's purges of 1936 - 38, where he among other things sentenced Kamenev and Zinoviev. Nikitchenko was also the Soviet Union's judge at the Nuremberg trials.
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... was typecast as the wasp-tongued, supercillious sophisticate. His most famous role is that of the cranky professor forced to stay immobile because of a broken leg ...