Aleksandr Chistyakov
Birthday
1880/01/01
Day of death
1942/12/31 (63 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also know as
Aleksandr Petrovich Chistyakov, A. Chistyakov, A. Tsistyakov, Александр Петрович Чистяков, А. Чистяков, Олександр Чистяков, A. P. Chistyakov, Aleksandr Čistǎkov
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.
Acting
(1935) Beautiful Garden
as ---
(1940) Возвращение
as Pogodin, Nikita's grandfather
(1932) A Personal Affair
as ---
(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 (Rabochiy)
(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 Nikanor
(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
as ---
(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
as ---
(1933) Conveyor of Death
as Kashevskiy, master
(1929) Bread
as Peasant