Mikhail Aranyshev was born on November 25, 1912 in Klin, Nizhegorodskaya guberniya, Russian Empire. He was a cinematographer, known for Gost (1939), Poema o lyubvi (1954) and Alloy (1962). He died on November 18, 1989 in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union.