Aleksandr Potapov was born on June 14, 1941 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Ekipazh (1980), Zhukov (2012) and Vernost (1965). He was married to Natalia and Elena Shestakov. He died on November 8, 2014 in Moscow, Russia.
He and his first wife, Elena Shestakova, have two sons: Sergey, who was born in 1978, and Vladimir, who was born in 1980. Sergey was named after his paternal grandfather, Sergey Stepanovich Potapov.