Aleksandr Chistyakov
Known for: Acting
Aleksandr Chistyakov was born in 1880, he never graduated from high school, he worked as an accountant. From 1921 he studied at the First State Film School (Leo Kuleshov's workshop). Since 1925, he actively acted in films. The first role - a worker in the film "Arsenals" became a characteristic role for the subsequent work of the actor. He also was the champion of the Russian Empire in hammer throwing. Self-taught, he began to master hammer throwing at the end of the 19th century and in 1912 became the first record holder in Russia. He was a very good cyclist and an able wrestler too.
Filmography
Film
Yakov Sverdlov
1940
Film
Stepan Razin
Prince Baryatinskiy
1939
Film
A Great Life
District committee secretary
1939
Film
The Return of Maxim
Mishchenko, white-wooly mustached worker
1937
Film
Professor Mamlock
Resistance member
1938
Film
A Severe Young Man
Olga's Father
1935
Film
Minin and Pozharsky
Prokopiy Lyapunov
1939
Film
The White Eagle
State prisoner
1928
Film
The Happy Canary
Worker
1929
Film
Seaman's Daughter
Captain Shestov
1941
Film
Mother
Vlasov, the Father
1926
Film
Storm Over Asia
The Russian Rebel Leader
1928
Film
The End of St. Petersburg
Worker
1927
Film
Salamander
Pryer, typographer
1928
A Personal Affair
1932
Film
Deserter
Fritz Muller
1933
Film
The Thirteen
Aleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist
1937
Film
The Miners
Nikanor
1937
Film
Bread
Peasant
1929
Film
The Vyborg Side
Mishchenko
1939
Film
Diary of a Revolutionist
Stationmaster (uncredited)
1932
Film
I Love
Nykanor, the old miner
1936
Film
The Pilots
Ivan Khrushchev, moustachioed mechanic
1935
Film
Beautiful Garden
1935
Film
A Simple Case
Uncle Sasha
1930
Film
Love and Hate
Vasilisa's husband
1935
Film
Эх, яблочко, куды котишься
Machinist
1926
Film
Conveyor of Death
Kashevskiy, master
1933
Film
Outskirts
Pyotr Ivanonich Kadkin
1933
Film
Misunderstood
Ivan Timofeyev
1931
Film
A Great Life, Part 2
District committee secretary
1946
Film
The Return
Pogodin, Nikita's grandfather
1940
Film
The Drive of Death
Machinist Gavrilov
1929
Film
No One is Funnier than Us
Grigoriy Ivanovich Korzhev
1940
Film
Who Are You?
Beggar
1927
Nastenka Ustinova
Ustinov
1934
Film
Daughter of the Motherland
Grandfather Andron
1937
Film
For Your Health
Philistine
1929
Film
The Last Night
1933
Film
Heroes of the Furnace
Commissar
1929