From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Aleksandr Pavlovich Antonov 1898 1962 was a Russian film actor who had a lengthy career stretching from the silent era to the 1950s His best known role was as Grigory Vakulinchuk in Sergei Eisensteins film The Battleship Potemkin He also had a part in another Eisenstein film Strike Description above from the Wikipedia article Aleksandr Pavlovich Antonov licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia