Pyotr Aleynikov
Known for: Acting
Born into poverty, Aleynikov lost his family at an early age, forcing him to street-life before transitioning to an orphanage in the early 1920s. He discovered a love of movies when a local film projectionist began training him in the craft. Following time in a Russian labor compound, Aleinikov studied drama in Leningrad and made his film debut in the 1932 film “Counter”. His talent for music and comedy led him to numerous roles of varying degree of local fame that grew as World War II intensified. He continued to star and support in films until disagreements between him and production teams intensified, leaving him without work until his 1955 performance in “Land and People”. His career often suffered disturbances due to his heavy reliance on alcohol, which would later take his life.
Filmography
Film
The Great Glinka
Alexander Pushkin
1946
Film
Moscow Skies
lieutenant Ilya Streltsov
1944
Series
Legends of Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2016
Film
Aleksandr Parkhomenko
Gaivoron
1942
Film
A Great Life, Part 2
Vanya Kurskiy
1946
Film
The Invincible
Grisha, a driver
1943
Film
The Humpbacked Horse
Ivanushka
1941
Film
The Man with the Gun
Soldier
1938
Film
Poet
soldier
1956
Film
Vanka
1960
Film
Driver Involuntarily
шофёр грузовика
1958
Film
Do I Love You?
Angry boy
1934
Film
The Brave Seven
Moliboga, cook
1936
Film
Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades
1955
Film
Fifth Ocean
Kovtunov
1940
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underground worker, Night Over Belgrade
1942
Film
Land and People
Ignat Ushkin
1956
Film
The Miners of Donetsk
Andrey Postoyko
1951
Film
High Water
1963
Film
Counterplan
Slepnitsyn, young worker (uncredited)
1932
Film
Incident on a Volcano
Shatalov
1941
Film
A Home for Tanya
Fyodor
1959
Film
In the Name of the Motherland
Ilyin
1943
Film
For the Soviet Motherland
Eino
1937
Film
Fighters
Lieutenant (uncredited)
1939
Film
The Unusual Voyage of Mishka Strekachyov
policeman
1959
Film
The Precious Seed
1948
Film
Komsomolsk
Petka Aleinikov
1938
Film
Quenching the Thirst
Maryutin
1968
Film
The Girlfriends
wounded
1936
Film
Они не пройдут
The old man around the campfire
1965
Film
The Ural Front
1944
Film
Make Noise, Town
Vasya, the inventor
1940
Film
Naval Battalion
Petya
1946
Film
Golden Horn
1948
Film
No Greater Love
Senya
1943
Film
A Great Life
Vanya Kursky
1939
Film
Peasants
Petka, a boy
1935
Mother
underground worker
1941
Film
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
Himself (archive footage)
1976
Film
Tractor Drivers
Savka
1939
Film
Fedka
Villager (uncredited)
1937
Film
Weekdays and Holidays
1961