Actor Alexey Petrenko has died

Theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR Alexei Petrenko has died at the age of 78. He died on Wednesday 22 February. This was reported on the website of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia.

“The Union of Cinematographers of Russia mourns together with the family and friends of the outstanding Russian actor Alexei Petrenko. Colleagues of Alexei Vasilyevich offer sincere condolences to his relatives, ”the message says. The cause of death was not specified.

Alexey Petrenko was born on March 26, 1938 in the village of Chemer, Chernihiv region. In 1961 he graduated from the Kharkov Theater Institute. He served in theaters such as the Leningrad Lensovet Theater, the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, the Moscow Art Theater, and the School of Modern Play. Since 2010, he has been a member of the Patriarchal Council for Culture.

He has more than 70 roles in films, including "The Tale of How Tsar Peter the Arap Married", "Twenty Days Without War" (1976), "Marriage" (1977), "TASS is authorized to declare", "Cruel Romance (1984), Prisoner of If Castle (1989), The Musketeers Twenty Years Later (1992), The Barber of Siberia (1998), In August 1944..., Memories of Sherlock Holmes" (2000), "Doctor Zhivago" (2006), "Wolf Messing", "Bury Me Behind the Baseboard" (2009), "Burnt by the Sun 2" (2010).

One of his last film works was the film "Victor" (2014), which also starred Gerard Depardieu and Elizabeth Hurley.