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
- Возвращение as Pogodin, Nikita's grandfather
- No One is Funnier than Us as Grigoriy Ivanovich Korzhev
1939
- Stepan Razin as Prince Baryatinskiy
- Minin and Pozharsky as Prokopiy Lyapunov
- The Vyborg Side as Mishchenko
- A Great Life as District committee secretary
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 Nikanor
1935
- Love and Hate as Vasilisa's husband
- A Severe Young Man as Olga's Father
- The Pilots as Ivan Khrushchev, moustachioed mechanic
- Beautiful Garden
1934
- Nastenka Ustinova as Ustinov
1933
- Outskirts as Pyotr Ivanonich Kadkin
- Deserter as Fritz Muller
- Conveyor of Death as Kashevskiy, master
- 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
- Bread as Peasant
- The Happy Canary as Worker
- For Your Health as Philistine
- The Drive of Death as Machinist Gavrilov
- Heroes of the Furnace as Commissar
1928
- The White Eagle as State prisoner
- Storm Over Asia as The Russian Rebel Leader
- Salamander as Pryer, typographer
1927
- Who Are You? as Beggar
- The End of St. Petersburg as Worker (Rabochiy)
1926
- Mother as Vlasov, the Father
- Эх, яблочко, куды котишься as Machinist