Aleksei Pankratyev was born on November 13, 1903 in Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a cinematographer, known for
Troye s odnoy ulitsy (1936),
The Self-Seeker (1929) and
Mirabo (1930). He died on July 8, 1983 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].