Aleksei Petrenko

Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (Алексей Васильевич Петренко; 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)