Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (; 26 March 1938 – 22 February 2017) was a

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and

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n film and stage actor. He played

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Elem Klimov Elem Germanovich Klimov (; 9 July 1933 – 26 October 2003) was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker. He studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Gerasimov Institute of Cinematograph, and was married to film director Larisa Shepitko ...

's historical drama '' Agony'' and

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...

in the

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documentary '' World War II: Behind Closed Doors''. Vladimir Putin 10 December 2001-1

Selected filmography

* ''

King Lear ''The Tragedy of King Lear'', often shortened to ''King Lear'', is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his ...

'' (''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 Peter I (, ; – ), better known as Peter the Great, was the Sovereign, Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia, Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of Russia, Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned j ...

* '' 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 Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children (if any), and b ...

'' (''Женитьба'', 1978) as Podkolesin Ivan Kuzmich * '' Agony'' (''Агония'', 1981) as

* '' 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 Abbé Faria () (born José Custódio de Faria; 31 May 1756 – 20 September 1819) was a Portuguese Catholic priest who was one of the pioneers of the scientific study of hypnotism, following on from the work of Franz Mesmer. Unlike Mesmer, ...

* '' 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

* '' Presence'' (''Присутствие'', 1992) as Petya * '' Candles in the Dark'' (1993) as episode * ''

Musketeers Twenty Years After ''Musketeers Twenty Years After'' (, translit. ''Mushketeri dvadsat' let spustya'') is a four-episode Russian musical film directed by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich based on Alexandre Dumas' 1845 novel '' Twenty Years After''. Filming began ...

'' (''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 Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Hol ...

* '' In August 1944'' (''В августе 44-го...'', 2001) as General Yegorov * ''

The Idiot ''The Idiot'' (Reforms of Russian orthography, pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal ''The Russian Messenger'' in 1868–1869. The titl ...

'' (''Идиот'', 2003, TV Mini-Series) as general Ardalion Ivolgin * ''

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'' (''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

* '' 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 ''Yolki 5'' (, meaning ''Christmas Trees 5'' or ''Those Christmas Trees''), is a 2016 Russian comedy film, sequel to ''Yolki 1914''. The roles are played by Ivan Urgant, Sergey Svetlakov, Kirill Pletnev, Katerina Shpitsa, Anna Khilkevich, Gosha Ku ...

'' (''Ёлки 5'', 2016) as Grigory Zemlyanikin * ''

Hoffmaniada ''Hoffmaniada'' () is a 2018 Russian stop motion-animated feature film from Soyuzmultfilm. The film is one of the first full-length puppet animated film in the recent history of the animation studio. The concept and the art design was done by Mikha ...

'' (''Гофманиада'', 2018) as Coppelius / Sandman (final film role, released posthumously)

Awards

* Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984) * People's Artist of the RSFSR (1988) *

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4th class (1998) *

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(1999) * People's Artist of Ukraine (1999) * Golden Eagle Award (2007) * Order of Honour (2014)Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 25 октября 2014 года № 680 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации
(PDF) . Retrieved on 23 February 2017.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Petrenko, Aleksei 1938 births 2017 deaths Soviet male actors Russian people of Ukrainian descent Russian male film actors Russian male stage actors People's Artists of Russia People from Chernihiv Oblast Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) Honored Artists of the RSFSR Recipients of the title of People's Artists of Ukraine State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates