Aleksei Petrenko

Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (; 26 March 1938 – 22 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. 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.

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) State Prize of the Russian Federation(1999) People's Artist of Ukraine (1999) Golden Eagle Award (2007) Order of Honour (2014)