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
- The Return as Pogodin, Nikita's grandfather
- No One is Funnier than Us as Grigoriy Ivanovich Korzhev
1939
- The Vyborg Side as Mishchenko
- Minin and Pozharsky as Prokopiy Lyapunov
- 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
- The Miners as Nikanor
- The Thirteen as Aleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist
- Daughter of the Motherland as Grandfather Andron
1936
- I Love as Nykanor, the old miner
1935
- The Pilots as Ivan Khrushchev, moustachioed mechanic
- A Severe Young Man as Olga's Father
- Beautiful Garden
- Love and Hate as Vasilisa's husband
1934
- Nastenka Ustinova as Ustinov
1933
- Conveyor of Death as Kashevskiy, master
- Outskirts as Pyotr Ivanonich Kadkin
- Deserter as Fritz Muller
- The Last Night
1932
- A Personal Affair
- Diary of a Revolutionist as Stationmaster (uncredited)
1931
- Misunderstood as Ivan Timofeyev
1930
- A Simple Case as Uncle Sasha
1929
- The Happy Canary as Worker
- For Your Health as Philistine
- The Drive of Death as Machinist Gavrilov
- Bread as Peasant
- Heroes of the Furnace as Commissar
1928
- The White Eagle as State prisoner
- Salamander as Pryer, typographer
- Storm Over Asia as The Russian Rebel Leader
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