Aleksandr Antonov (actor)
Aleksandr Pavlovich Antonov was a Soviet film actor who had a lengthy career, stretching from the silent era to the 1950s. Antonov was named Merited Artist of the Russian Federation in 1950.
Antonov was a member of the Moscow Proletarian Culture Theater between the years 1920–1924 when he met Sergei Eisenshtein, who cast him in his directorial debut short film Glumov's Diary and in his first full-length feature Strike. Eisenshtein then gave Antonov the part of Bolshevik leader Grigory Vakulinchuk in The Battleship Potemkin, which remains his best known role.
Antonov continued his career into both the late silent and the sound period where he usually played episodic character actor roles of either proletarians or sailors. He worked with leading directors, including Ivan Pyryev on A Rich Bride, Vsevolod Pudovkin on Suvorov, Mikhail Romm on Secret Mission, and Yuli Raizman on Dream of a Cossack.
Filmography
- Glumov's Diary as Joffre
- Strike as member of strike committee
- Battleship Potemkin as Grigory Vakulinchuk
- The Wind as sailor
- A Girl with a Temper as Mehkov, director of the animal-breeding sovkhoz
- Suvorov as Colonel Tyurin, commander of the Azov regiment
- The Murderers are Coming as Müller, German soldier
- Six P.M. as commander
- Girl No. 217 as German soldier
- The Young Guard as Ignat Fomin, Hilfspolizei
- The Battle of Stalingrad as Colonel Popov
- Dream of a Cossack as spring worker
- Incident in the Taiga
- Twelfth Night as Sea Captain
- The White Poodle as yardman
- A Weary Road as Raissa's Father