Aleksandr Chistyakov
Born: 1880-01-01 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died: 1942-12-31
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
1946
- A Great Life, Part 2 as District committee secretary
1941
- Seaman's Daughter as Captain Shestov
1940
- Yakov Sverdlov
- No One is Funnier than Us as Grigoriy Ivanovich Korzhev
- The Return as Pogodin, Nikita's grandfather
1939
- Minin and Pozharsky as Prokopiy Lyapunov
- The Vyborg Side as Mishchenko
- A Great Life as District committee secretary
- Stepan Razin as Prince Baryatinskiy
1938
- Professor Mamlock as Resistance member
1937
- The Return of Maxim as Mishchenko, white-wooly mustached worker
- Daughter of the Motherland as Grandfather Andron
- The Thirteen as Aleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist
- The Miners as Nikanor
1936
- I Love as Nykanor, the old miner
1935
- A Severe Young Man as Olga's Father
- Beautiful Garden
- Love and Hate as Vasilisa's husband
- The Pilots as Ivan Khrushchev, moustachioed mechanic
1934
- Nastenka Ustinova as Ustinov
1933
- Outskirts as Pyotr Ivanonich Kadkin
- The Last Night
- Deserter as Fritz Muller
- Conveyor of Death
1932
- Diary of a Revolutionist as Stationmaster (uncredited)
- A Personal Affair
1931
- Misunderstood as Ivan Timofeyev
1930
- A Simple Case as Uncle Sasha
1929
- Темне царство
- The Drive of Death as Machinist Gavrilov
- Heroes of the Furnace as Commissar
- For Your Health as Philistine
- The Happy Canary as Worker
1928
- Storm Over Asia as The Russian Rebel Leader
- Salamander as Pryer, typographer
- The White Eagle as State prisoner
1927
- The End of St. Petersburg as Worker
- Who Are You? as Beggar
1926
- Mother as Vlasov, the Father
- Эх, яблочко, куды котишься as Machinist