Aleksei Petrenko

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]

Petrenko (right) greeting President Vladimir Putin in 2001

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]
Website

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]