Aleksei Chernov Movies, Biography & Filmography

Aleksey Petrovich Chernov (1908–1979) was a Soviet stage and film actor, and a member of the CPSU since 1951. After serving as an auxiliary staff member at the Tomsk City Theatre, he enlisted at the Moscow Theater School, from which he graduated in 1934. In 1934-1935 he performed at the Moscow Theater of the Revolution, from 1935 to 1967 at the Voronezh Drama Theater, and from 1967 onward - again in Moscow - at the Mayakovsky Theater. He made his screen debut in 1965 in the role of Maxim Maksimych in an adaptation of Lermontov's novel 'A Hero of Our Time' - a role he would reprise two years later. In 1967, he became a regular actor at Gorky Film Studio.