Aleksei Petrenko

Soviet and Russian actor (1938–2017)

Aleksei Petrenko
Алексей Петренко
Petrenko in 2000
Born	Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (1938-03-26)26 March 1938 Chemer, Kozelets Raion, Chernigov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Died	22 February 2017(2017-02-22) (aged 78) Moscow, Russia
Occupation	actor
Years active	1961–2017
Spouse	Azima Abdumaminova^[1]
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Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (Russian: Алексей Васильевич Петренко; 26 March 1938 – 22 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor.^[2]^[3] He played Grigori Rasputin in Elem Klimov's historical drama Agony and Joseph Stalin in the BBC Two documentary World War II: Behind Closed Doors.^[4]

Selected filmography

King Lear (Король Лир, 1970) as Oswald
How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor (Сказ про то, как царь Пётр арапа женил, 1976) as Peter the Great
Twenty Days Without War (Двадцать дней без войны, 1977) as Yuri Stroganov
Beda (Беда, 1977) as Kirill Alekseevich, the Director of the school
Yuliya Vrevskaya (Юлия Вревская, 1978) as Stepan Knyazev
Marriage (Женитьба, 1978) as Podkolesin Ivan Kuzmich
Agony (Агония, 1981) as Grigori Rasputin
Farewell (Прощание, 1983) as Vorontsov
TASS Is Authorized to Declare... (ТАСС уполномочен заявить, 1984, TV Mini-Series) as Paul Dick
Lev Tolstoy (Лев Толстой, 1984) as Vladimir Grigoryevich Chertkov
A Cruel Romance (Жестокий романс, 1984) as Knurov
Day of Wrath (День гнева, 1985) as Meller
The Prisoner of Château d'If (Узник замка Иф, 1988, TV Series) as Abbé Faria
The Servant (Слуга, 1989) as Roman Romanovich Bryzgin
The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin (Пиры Валтасара, или Ночь со Сталиным, 1989) as Joseph Stalin
Presence (Присутствие, 1992) as Petya
Candles in the Dark (1993) as episode
Musketeers Twenty Years After (Мушкетёры двадцать лет спустя, 1992) as King Charles I
The Barber of Siberia (Сибирский цирюльник, 1998) as General Radlov
Memoirs on Sherlock Holmes (Воспоминания о Шерлоке Холмсе, 2000, TV Series) as Arthur Conan Doyle
In August 1944 (В августе 44-го..., 2001) as General Yegorov
The Idiot (Идиот, 2003, TV Mini-Series) as general Ardalion Ivolgin
Lilacs (Ветка сирени, 2007) as Nicholas Zverev
12 (2007) as 5th Juror
Illusion of Fear (Иллюзия страха, 2008) as Petrovsky
World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West (Вторая мировая война. За закрытыми дверями: Сталин, нацизм и и Запад, 2008, TV Series documentary) as Joseph Stalin
Wolf Messing: Who Saw through Time (Вольф Мессинг: видевший сквозь время, 2009, TV Series) as Joseph Stalin
Bury Me Behind the Baseboard (Похороните меня за плинтусом, 2009) as Granddad
Into The Storm (Навстречу шторму, 2009, TV Movie) as Joseph Stalin
Burnt by the Sun 2 (Утомлённые солнцем 2, 2010) as elderly lieutenant-accountant
Yolki 2 (Ёлки 2, 2011) as Grigory Zemlyanikin
Petrovich (Петрович, 2012) as Trofim Petrovich Streltsov
Viktor (Виктор, 2014) as Vetrov
Yolki 5 (Ёлки 5, 2016) as Grigory Zemlyanikin
Hoffmaniada (Гофманиада, 2018) as Coppelius / Sandman (final film role, released posthumously)

Awards

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984)
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1988)
Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class (1998)^[5]
State Prize of the Russian Federation(1999)
People's Artist of Ukraine (1999)^[6]
Golden Eagle Award (2007)
Order of Honour (2014)^[7]

References

^ Жену Алексея Петренко заказали сплетники. Mk.ru. Retrieved on 23 February 2017.
^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman / Littlefield. pp. 528–529. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
^ Скончался актёр Алексей Петренко. tass.ru (23 February 2017)
^ World War II: Behind Closed Doors. Bbc.co.uk (10 November 2008). Retrieved on 23 February 2017.
^ «Указ Президента РФ от 28 марта 1998 г. N 295...». kremlin.ru (28 March 199). Retrieved on 12 January 2020.
^ Нагороджений Указом Президента України від 8 вересня 1999 року № 1147. Zakon1.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved on 23 February 2017.
^ Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 25 октября 2014 года № 680 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации. (PDF) . Retrieved on 23 February 2017.