Name
Aleksandr Chistyakov
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1880-01-01
Deathday
1942-12-31 (62 years old)
Place of Birth
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Biography
Aleksandr Chistyakov was born in 1880, he never graduated from high school, he worked as an accountant. From 1921 he studied at the First State Film School (Leo Kuleshov's workshop). Since 1925, he actively acted in films. The first role - a worker in the film "Arsenals" became a characteristic role for the subsequent work of the actor.
He also was the champion of the Russian Empire in hammer throwing. Self-taught, he began to master hammer throwing at the end of the 19th century and in 1912 became the first record holder in Russia. He was a very good cyclist and an able wrestler too.
Known For
5.5
A young sportsman Grisha Fokin falls in love with Masha, the wife of an outstanding scient...
6.7
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg ...
5.3
The second part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. In July 1914, ...
6.492
In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fu...
4.9
The final part of trilogy about the life of a young factory worker, Maxim. Following the ...
5.3
As a response to criticism for the allegedly excessive “mass appeal” of his earlier e...
5.4
The film tells about a band of demobilized Red Army men and two civilians who cross a Midd...
- 1935 Beautiful Garden
- 1940 The Return as Pogodin, Nikita's grandfather
- 1932 A Personal Affair
- 1937 The Miners as Nikanor
- 1926 Mother as Vlasov, the Father
- 1937 The Thirteen as Aleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist
- 1928 Storm Over Asia as The Russian Rebel Leader
- 1940 No One is Funnier than Us as Grigoriy Ivanovich Korzhev
- 1933 Outskirts as Pyotr Ivanonich Kadkin
- 1926 Эх, яблочко, куды котишься as Machinist
- 1930 A Simple Case as Uncle Sasha
- 1931 Misunderstood as Ivan Timofeyev
- 1927 The End of St. Petersburg as Worker
- 1935 A Severe Young Man as Olga's Father
- 1935 The Pilots as Ivan Khrushchev, moustachioed mechanic
- 1939 The Vyborg Side as Mishchenko
- 1935 Love and Hate as Vasilisa's husband
- 1928 Salamander as Pryer, typographer
- 1937 The Return of Maxim as Mishchenko, white-wooly mustached worker
- 1933 Deserter as Fritz Muller
- 1941 Seaman's Daughter as Captain Shestov
- 1937 Daughter of the Motherland as Grandfather Andron
- 1936 I Love as Nykanor, the old miner
- 1939 Stepan Razin as Prince Baryatinskiy
- 1929 The Drive of Death as Machinist Gavrilov
- 1929 For Your Health as Philistine
- 1929 The Happy Canary as Worker
- 1932 Diary of a Revolutionist as Stationmaster (uncredited)
- 1927 Who Are You? as Beggar
- 1928 The White Eagle as State prisoner
- 1934 Nastenka Ustinova as Ustinov
- 1929 Heroes of the Furnace as Commissar
- 1940 Yakov Sverdlov
- 1939 A Great Life as District committee secretary
- 1946 A Great Life, Part 2 as District committee secretary
- 1939 Minin and Pozharsky as Prokopiy Lyapunov
- 1938 Professor Mamlock as Resistance member
- 1933 The Last Night
- 1933 Conveyor of Death as Kashevskiy, master
- 1929 Bread as Peasant
