Pyotr Aleynikov
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.
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Films (42)
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
1976 · Himself (archive footage)
Quenching the Thirst
1968 · Maryutin
Они не пройдут
1965 · The old man around the campfire
High Water
1963
Weekdays and Holidays
1961
Vanka
1960
The Unusual Voyage of Mishka Strekachyov
1959 · policeman
A Home for Tanya
1959 · Fyodor
Driver Involuntarily
1958 · шофёр грузовика
Poet
1956 · soldier
Land and People
1956 · Ignat Ushkin
Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades
1955
The Miners of Donetsk
1951 · Andrey Postoyko
Golden Horn
1948
The Precious Seed
1948
A Great Life, Part 2
1946 · Vanya Kurskiy
The Great Glinka
1946 · Alexander Pushkin
Naval Battalion
1946 · Petya
The Ural Front
1944
Moscow Skies
1944 · lieutenant Ilya Streltsov
In the Name of the Motherland
1943 · Ilyin
No Greater Love
1943 · Senya
The Invincible
1943 · Grisha, a driver
Aleksandr Parkhomenko
1942 · Gaivoron
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #8
1942 · underground worker, Night Over Belgrade
Mother
1941 · underground worker
The Humpbacked Horse
1941 · Ivanushka
Incident on a Volcano
1941 · Shatalov
Fifth Ocean
1940 · Kovtunov
Make Noise, Town
1940 · Vasya, the inventor
A Great Life
1939 · Vanya Kursky
Tractor Drivers
1939 · Savka
Fighters
1939 · Lieutenant (uncredited)
Komsomolsk
1938 · Petka Aleinikov
The Man with the Gun
1938 · Soldier
For the Soviet Motherland
1937 · Eino
Fedka
1937 · Villager (uncredited)
The Brave Seven
1936 · Moliboga, cook
The Girlfriends
1936 · wounded
Peasants
1935 · Petka, a boy
Do I Love You?
1934 · Angry boy
Counterplan
1932 · Slepnitsyn, young worker (uncredited)
