Nikolai Chaplygin was born on 9 December 1904 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for The Vow (1946), Malchik s okrainy (1948) and Maryte (1947). He died on 31 October 1953 in village Zhikhar, Kharkov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Zhikhor, Chervonozavodsky District, Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine].