Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-03-28 (69 years old)

Deathday

1994-08-03

Place of Birth

USSR

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

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 th...

Acting

1975

Teens in the Universe

as И. О. О.

1974

Moscow-Cassiopeia

as И. О. О.

1976

Trust

as Nikolai Bobrikov

1963

The Winter of Our Discontent

as Ethan Allen Hawley

1981

Born by the Storm

as Staryy graf

1987

Dark Eyes

as Il Governarore di Sisoiev

1957

On the Road of Immorality

as Юлиус Фучик

1966

Beware of the Car!

as Юрий Деточкин

1956

Soldiers

as Farber

1970

Crime and Punishment

as Porfiry Petrovitch

1964

Hamlet

as Hamlet

1956

Murder on Dante Street

as Molodoy fashist

1987

First Encounter - Last Encounter

as Member of counter-intelligence

1975

Daughters-Mothers

as Vadim Antonovich Vasilyev

1982

The Queen of Spades

as Chekalinsky

1968

Degree of Risk

as Саша

1969

The Living Corpse

as Ivan Petrovich the genius

1990

A Trap for Lonely Man

as Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush

1970

Tchaikovsky

as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)

1972

Taming of the Fire

as Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy

1991

Genius

as Гиля - главарь мафии «Принц»

1962

Nine Days of One Year

as Ilya Kulikov

1980

Little Tragedies

as Сальери \ старый барон

1992

1974

Romance for Lovers

as Trumpeter

2011

Discovering Hamlet

as Hamlet (archive footage)

1966

The Little Prince

as Narrator (voice)

1977

On Thursday and Never Again

as Ivan Modestovich, Sergey's stepfather

1988

Naval Cadets, Charge!

as kardinal Fleri

1979

The Barrier

as Antoni Manev

1993

The Murderer

as Investigator

1983

Phenomenon

as Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник)

1982

This Fantastic World 7

as капитан

1975

Anna and Commander

as Dramatist

1984

Gray Ural

as Narrator

1962

1982

1984

Dead Souls

as Plushkin

1978

Velvet Season

as Police commissioner

1970

Uncle Vanya

as Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky

1990

1986

Primary Russia

as Emperor Justinian

1991

Death Line

as теневой мафиози Луковецкий

1961

A Leap Year

as Gennadiy Kupriyanov

1983

1992

Возможная встреча

as Johann Sebastian Bach

1970

1979

About a Puppy

as The Puppy (voice)

1981

Khalif the Stork

as Khalif / халиф

1957

Next to Us

as Andrey Korolev

1985

My Sister Lucy

as (Narrator)

1977

The Legend of Till

as Charles V

1961

1960

Letter Never Sent

as Konstantin Sabinin

1975

Mirror

as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)

1979

Caesar and Cleopatra

as Цезарь

1987

Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century

as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister

1991

The Case

as Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик

1980

With You I Am Again...

as Narrator (voice)

1977

1987

My Favorite Time

as Narrator (voice)

1990

1957

Storm

as Muromtsev

1966

First Visitor

as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

1974

The Heron and the Crane

as Narrator (Voice)

1969

First Love

as Father

1990

1972

Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram

as Passazhir tramvaya

1981

Talking Hands of Travancore

as Narrator (voice)

1968

1997

1982

1976

The Story of the Communist

as Narrator (voice)

1971

1975

Choice of Purpose

as Roosevelt

1985

Production

1985

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