Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
- Acting
- March 28, 1925 · USSR
- August 3, 1994
Biography
Innokentiy Smotkunovkiy (born 28 March 1925 – 3 August 1994) was a Soviet film and stage actor. Served during World War II. An acclaimed performer, his portrayal of Hamlet in a 1964 film won him praise overseas, including a BAFTA nomination. One of Smotkunovkiy's best known roles among wider audiences was in a popular Soviet crime comedy Beware of the Car, a satire where he portrayed a thief who stole cars from criminals to donate the money from car sales to orphanages. Other notable roles include dramatizations of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot in Bolshoi Drama Theater (1957) and Tolstoy's Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich in Maly Theatre (1973). Awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1974.
Known for
Filmography
- Legends of Cinema · Self
- Discovering Hamlet · Hamlet (archive footage)
- Георгий Вицин. Отшельник · Self
- Memories of Sherlock Holmes · Prime Minister Lord Thomas Ballinger
- Dandelion Wine
- Podróż na wschód · Mikołaj
- White Feast
- Enchanted
- Initiation Into Love
- The Murderer · Investigator
- I want to go to America
- Genius · Gilya «Prints» is the head of the mafia
- Traveling With a Double · Narrator
- Gold
- Возможная встреча · Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Revelation of John the Foreprinter · Ivan the Terrible
- The Case · Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
- The Siege of Venice · Inquisitor
- The Case of Sukhovo-Kobylin · Петр Константинович Муромский
- Death Line · теневой мафиози Луковецкий
- A Trap for Lonely Man · Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
- Mother
- Ladies Tailor · Isaak
- Dina
- Heart Is Not a Stone
- Naval Cadets, Charge! · kardinal Fleri
- At the End of the Night
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1 · Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins · Lord Thomas Bellinger - Prime Minister
- The Cabal of Hypocrites
- Restricted Area
- Black Corridor
- Naval Cadets, Charge! · kardinal Fleri
- The Idiot · Narrator
- Without Sun
- First Encounter - Last Encounter · Member of counter-intelligence
- Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century · Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
- Dark Eyes · Il Governarore di Sisoiev
- Mysterious Heir
- My Favorite Time · Narrator (Voice)
- The Last Road
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Primary Russia · Emperor Justinian
- Hercules and Admetus
- Children of the Sun · Writer
- Children of the Sun · Writer
- Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director · Self
- To Be Hamlet · Self
- My Sister Lucy · (Narrator)
- Dead Souls · Plushkin
- Dead Souls · Плюшкин
- Gray Ural · Narrator
- Two Under One Umbrella · Тиль
- Phenomenon · Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник)
- Late love
- Road to Eternity
- Awakening · генерал Гиппиус
- The Queen of Spades · Chekalinsky
- Big Boy
- Theft
- Ivanov
- This Fantastic World 7 · капитан
- Born by the Storm · Staryy graf
- Talking Hands of Travancore · Narrator (Voice)
- Khalif the Stork · Khalif / халиф
- A Joke?!...
- Little Tragedies
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson · Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
- Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears · Self
- With You I Am Again... · Narrator (Voice)
- Caesar and Cleopatra · Цезарь
- The Barrier · Antoni Manev
- About a Puppy · The Puppy (Voice)
- Bells of Autumn · Narrator (Voice)
- Enemies
- Velvet Season · Police commissioner
- The Steppe · Moisey Moiseevich
- The Legend of Thyl · Charles V
- The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
- On Thursday and Never Again · Ivan Modestovich, Sergey's stepfather