Grigori Aleksandrov

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1903-01-22 (80 years old)

Deathday

1983-12-16

Place of Birth

Yekaterinburg, Russian Empire

Grigori Aleksandrov

Biography

Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov (original family name was Mormonenko; 23 January 1903 - 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1973. He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950. Initially associated with Sergei Eisenstein, with whom he worked as a co-director, screenwriter and actor, Aleksandrov became a major director in his own right in the 1930s, when he directed Jolly Fellows and a string of other musical comedies starring his wife Lyubov Orlova. Though Aleksandrov remained active until his death, his musicals, among...

Acting

1925

Battleship Potemkin

as Chief Officer Giliarovsky

1943

Seeds of Freedom

as ('Potemkin' sequence) (archive footage)

1925

Strike

as Factory Foreman

1923

Glumov's Diary

as Glumov 2, Golutvin

1967

I Don't Want to Be Filmed

as режиссёр Александров

1958

Sergei Eisenstein

as Himself (archive footage)

1974

Starling and Lyre

as General (uncredited)

Production

1925

1934

Jolly Fellows

as Director

1938

Volga - Volga

as Writer

1938

Volga - Volga

as Director

1925

Strike

as Screenplay

1949

1960

Russian Souvenir

as Director

1936

Circus

as Director

1974

1947

Spring

as Director

1952

Man of Music

as Director

1931

1940

Time in the Sun

as Director

1936

Circus

as Writer

1934

Jolly Fellows

as Writer

1940

The Shining Path

as Director

1985

Lyubov Orlova

as Writer

1985

Lyubov Orlova

as Director

1929

1929

The General Line

as Director

1925

Strike

as Assistant Director

1953

Martyn Borulya

as Cinematography

1947

Spring

as Screenplay

1952

Man of Music

as Screenplay

1979

¡Qué Viva México!

as Co-Director

1933

Thunder Over Mexico

as Co-Director

1934

Death Day

as Co-Director

1974

1931

1943

A Family

as Director

1925

Battleship Potemkin

as First Assistant Director

1931

1931

Sentimental Romance

as Screenplay

1979

1932

Hurray Mexico!

as Director

1953

1960

1945

Rodnye polya

as Producer

1945

1945

Twins

as Producer

1955

Son

as Producer

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