Pyotr Aleynikov
Actor
Born July 12, 1914 in Кривель, Могилёвская губерния, Российская империя
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
Legends of Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
Himself (archive footage)
Quenching the Thirst
Maryutin
Они не пройдут
The old man around the campfire
High Water
Weekdays and Holidays
Vanka
The Unusual Voyage of Mishka Strekachyov
policeman
A Home for Tanya
Fyodor
Driver Involuntarily
шофёр грузовика
Poet
soldier
Land and People
Ignat Ushkin
Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades
The Miners of Donetsk
Andrey Postoyko
Golden Horn
The Precious Seed
A Great Life, Part 2
Vanya Kurskiy
The Great Glinka
Alexander Pushkin
Naval Battalion
Petya
The Ural Front
Moscow Skies
lieutenant Ilya Streltsov
In the Name of the Motherland
Ilyin
No Greater Love
Senya
The Invincible
Grisha, a driver
Aleksandr Parkhomenko
Gaivoron
The Humpbacked Horse
Ivanushka
Incident on a Volcano
Shatalov
Fifth Ocean
Kovtunov
Make Noise, Town
Vasya, the inventor
A Great Life
Vanya Kursky
Tractor Drivers
Savka
Fighters
Lieutenant (uncredited)
Komsomolsk
Petka Aleinikov
The Man with the Gun
Soldier
For the Soviet Motherland
Eino
Fedka
Villager (uncredited)
The Brave Seven
Moliboga, cook
The Girlfriends
wounded
Peasants
Petka, a boy
Do I Love You?
Angry boy
Counterplan
Slepnitsyn, young worker (uncredited)