Aleksey Petrenko

Acting · 10 TV shows

Born March 26, 1938

Died February 22, 2017 (aged 78)

Chemer, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

Biography

Ukrainian native Alexei Vasilyevich Petrenko (b. March 26, 1938) has amassed a varied gallery of character and leading roles on Russian stage and screen including the titular “mad monk” in Elem Klimov’s 1981 “Rasputin”, Josef Stalin in BBC II’s docudrama “World War II: Behind Closed Doors”, and General Radlov in Nikita Mikhalkov’s “The Barber of Siberia”.

Known for: TASS Is Authorized to Declare... Wolf Messing: Seeing Through Time Memories of Sherlock Holmes