Pyotr Aleynikov

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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Tractor Drivers (1939) — Savka
2. The Humpbacked Horse (1941) — Ivanushka
3. The Brave Seven (1936) — Moliboga, cook
4. The Man with the Gun (1938) — Soldier
5. A Home for Tanya (1959) — Fyodor
6. Counterplan (1932) — Slepnitsyn, young worker (uncredited)
7. Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades (1955)
8. Peasants (1935) — Petka, a boy
9. No Greater Love (1943) — Senya
10. Aleksandr Parkhomenko (1942) — Gaivoron
11. Driver Involuntarily (1958) — шофёр грузовика
12. The Invincible (1943) — Grisha, a driver
13. In the Name of the Motherland (1943) — Ilyin
14. Poet (1956) — soldier
15. Moscow Skies (1944) — lieutenant Ilya Streltsov
16. A Great Life (1939) — Vanya Kursky
17. The Great Glinka (1946) — Alexander Pushkin
18. The Miners of Donetsk (1951) — Andrey Postoyko
19. Naval Battalion (1946) — Petya
20. Fifth Ocean (1940) — Kovtunov
21. Incident on a Volcano (1941) — Shatalov
22. Fighters (1939) — Lieutenant (uncredited)
23. The Girlfriends (1936) — wounded
24. The Unusual Voyage of Mishka Strekachyov (1959) — policeman
25. The Ural Front (1944)
26. For the Soviet Motherland (1937) — Eino
27. Komsomolsk (1938) — Petka Aleinikov
28. The Precious Seed (1948)
29. Weekdays and Holidays (1961)
30. Land and People (1956) — Ignat Ushkin
31. Mother (1941) — underground worker
32. High Water (1963)
33. A Great Life, Part 2 (1946) — Vanya Kurskiy
34. Fedka (1937) — Villager (uncredited)
35. Они не пройдут (1965) — The old man around the campfire
36. Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life (1976) — Himself (archive footage)
37. Do I Love You? (1934) — Angry boy
38. Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #8 (1942) — underground worker, Night Over Belgrade
39. Vanka (1960)
40. Golden Horn (1948)