Aleksei Popov was born on March 24, 1892 in Nikolayevsk, Samara Governorate, Russian Empire as Aleksey Dmitrievich Popov. He was an actor and director, known for Three Friends and an Invention (1927), Two Soldiers (1943) and Mechta i zhizn (1918). He died on August 18, 1961 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR.