🎬 Movies Mates PEOPLE
Pyotr Aleynikov
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 caree…
Read full 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.
Biography expanded
BODY OF WORK
Pyotr Aleynikov's Filmography
Select any movie to open its full Movies Mates details page.
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
as Himself (archive footage)
Quenching the Thirst
as Maryutin
Они не пройдут
as The old man around the campfire
High Water
Weekdays and Holidays
Vanka
The Unusual Voyage of Mishka Strekachyov
as policeman
A Home for Tanya
as Fyodor
Driver Involuntarily
as шофёр грузовика
Poet
as soldier
Land and People
as Ignat Ushkin
Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades
The Miners of Donetsk
as Andrey Postoyko
Golden Horn
The Precious Seed
A Great Life, Part 2
as Vanya Kurskiy
The Great Glinka
as Alexander Pushkin
Naval Battalion
as Petya
The Ural Front
Moscow Skies
as lieutenant Ilya Streltsov
In the Name of the Motherland
as Ilyin
No Greater Love
as Senya
The Invincible
as Grisha, a driver
Aleksandr Parkhomenko
as Gaivoron
No Poster
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #8
as underground worker, Night Over Belgrade
No Poster
Mother
as underground worker
The Humpbacked Horse
as Ivanushka
Incident on a Volcano
as Shatalov
Fifth Ocean
as Kovtunov
Make Noise, Town
as Vasya, the inventor
A Great Life
as Vanya Kursky
Tractor Drivers
as Savka
Fighters
as Lieutenant (uncredited)
Komsomolsk
as Petka Aleinikov
The Man with the Gun
as Soldier
For the Soviet Motherland
as Eino
Fedka
as Villager (uncredited)
The Brave Seven
as Moliboga, cook
The Girlfriends
as wounded
Peasants
as Petka, a boy
Do I Love You?
as Angry boy
Counterplan
as Slepnitsyn, young worker (uncredited)