Aleksandr Shchagin was born on August 19, 1898 in village Polyanki, Zaraysk uyezd, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire as Aleksandr Ivanovich Shchagin. He was an actor, known for Zolotoy klyuchik (1939) and Svadba (1944). He died on April 28, 1959 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR.