Aleksei Popov was born on March 24, 1892 in Nikolayevsk, Samara Governorate, Russian Empire [now Pugachyov, Saratov Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor and director, known for Three Friends and an Invention (1927), Krupnaja neprijatnost' (1930) and Mechta i zhizn (1918). He died on August 18, 1961 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].