Pyotr Aleynikov
Born: 1914-07-12 in Кривель, Могилёвская губерния, Российская империя
Died: 1965-06-09
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2016
- Legends of Cinema as Self (archive footage)
1976
- Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life as Himself (archive footage)
1968
- Quenching the Thirst as Maryutin
1965
- Они не пройдут as The old man around the campfire
1963
1960
1959
- A Home for Tanya as Fyodor
- The Unusual Voyage of Mishka Strekachyov as policeman
1958
- Driver Involuntarily as шофёр грузовика
1956
- Land and People as Ignat Ushkin
- Poet as soldier
1951
- The Miners of Donetsk as Andrey Postoyko
1946
- The Great Glinka as Alexander Pushkin
- A Great Life, Part 2 as Vanya Kurskiy
- Naval Battalion as Petya
1944
- The Ural Front
- Moscow Skies as lieutenant Ilya Streltsov
1943
- The Invincible as Grisha, a driver
- In the Name of the Motherland as Ilyin
- No Greater Love as Senya
1942
- Aleksandr Parkhomenko as Gaivoron
- Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #8 as underground worker, Night Over Belgrade
1941
- Incident on a Volcano as Shatalov
- The Humpbacked Horse as Ivanushka
- Mother as underground worker
1940
- Fifth Ocean as Kovtunov
- Make Noise, Town as Vasya, the inventor
1939
- Fighters as Lieutenant (uncredited)
- Tractor Drivers as Savka
- A Great Life as Vanya Kursky
1938
- The Man with the Gun as Soldier
- Komsomolsk as Petka Aleinikov
1937
- For the Soviet Motherland as Eino
- Fedka as Villager (uncredited)
1936
- The Girlfriends as wounded
- The Brave Seven as Moliboga, cook
1935
- Peasants as Petka, a boy
1934
- Do I Love You? as Angry boy
1932
- Shame as Slepnitsyn, young worker (uncredited)