Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1925-03-28
Day of Death
1994-08-03 (69 years old)
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 the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1974.
Known For
Acting
Mozart and Salieri
as Mozart
(2011)
Discovering Hamlet
as Hamlet (archive footage)
(1997)
Podróż na wschód
as Mikołaj
(1996)
(1994)
(1993)
(1993)
The Murderer
as Investigator
(1992)
The Revelation of John the Foreprinter
as Ivan the Terrible
(1992)
(1992)
Возможная встреча
as Johann Sebastian Bach
(1992)
Traveling With a Double
as Narrator
(1991)
Genius
as Гиля - главарь мафии «Принц»
(1991)
(1991)
Death Line
as теневой мафиози Луковецкий
(1991)
The Case
as Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
(1990)
(1990)
(1990)
Ladies Tailor
as Isaak
(1990)
A Trap for Lonely Man
as Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
(1989)
(1988)
(1988)
Naval Cadets, Charge!
as kardinal Fleri
(1988)
(1988)
(1988)
(1988)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1
as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
(1987)
Dark Eyes
as Il Governarore di Sisoiev
(1987)
First Encounter - Last Encounter
as Member of counter-intelligence
(1987)
My Favorite Time
as Narrator (voice)
(1987)
(1987)
The Idiot
as Narrator
(1987)
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
(1987)
(1986)
Primary Russia
as Emperor Justinian
(1986)
(1986)
(1986)
(1985)
(1985)
(1985)
My Sister Lucy
as (Narrator)
(1985)
To Be Hamlet
as Self
(1984)
Dead Souls
as Plushkin
(1984)
Gray Ural
as Narrator
(1983)
Phenomenon
as Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник)
(1983)
Two Under One Umbrella
as Тиль
(1983)
(1983)
(1982)
(1982)
(1982)
The Queen of Spades
as Chekalinsky
(1982)
(1982)
This Fantastic World 7
as капитан
(1981)
Khalif the Stork
as Khalif / халиф
(1981)
(1981)
Born by the Storm
as Staryy graf
(1981)
Talking Hands of Travancore
as Narrator (voice)
(1980)
(1980)
With You I Am Again...
as Narrator (voice)
(1980)
Little Tragedies
as Сальери \ старый барон
(1979)
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Цезарь
(1979)
About a Puppy
as The Puppy (voice)
(1979)
(1979)
The Barrier
as Antoni Manev
(1978)
Velvet Season
as Police commissioner
(1978)
(1978)
(1977)
The Legend of Till
as Charles V
(1977)
On Thursday and Never Again
as Ivan Modestovich, Sergey's stepfather
(1977)
I Am Flying to You as a Memory...
as Narrator (voice)
(1976)
(1976)
(1976)
The Story of the Communist
as Narrator (voice)
(1976)
(1976)
The Princess and the Pea
as King
(1976)
At the Origins of Mankind
as Narrator
(1976)
(1976)
Trust
as Nikolai Bobrikov
(1975)
Mirror
as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
(1975)
They Fought for Their Motherland
as surgeon
(1975)
Teens in the Universe
as И. О. О.
(1975)
Daughters-Mothers
as Vadim Antonovich Vasilyev
(1975)
Anna and Commander
as Dramatist
(1975)
Choice of Purpose
as Roosevelt
(1974)
Moscow-Cassiopeia
as И. О. О.
(1974)
The Heron and the Crane
as Narrator (Voice)
(1974)
(1974)
Romance for Lovers
as Trumpeter
(1972)
Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram
as Passazhir tramvaya
(1972)
Taming of the Fire
as Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy
(1972)
(1971)
Little Tragedies
as Mozart
(1971)
In Memory of Dostoevsky
as читает текст
(1970)
Tchaikovsky
as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)
(1970)
(1970)
Uncle Vanya
as Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky
(1970)
Crime and Punishment
as Porfiry Petrovitch
(1969)
First Love
as Father
(1969)
The Living Corpse
as Ivan Petrovich the genius
(1968)
Evgeniy Urbanskiy
as Himself
(1968)
Degree of Risk
as Саша
(1966)
(1966)
(1966)
First Visitor
as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
(1966)
Beware of the Car!
as Юрий Деточкин
(1966)
The Little Prince
as Narrator (voice)
(1964)
Hamlet
as Hamlet
(1963)
The Winter of Our Discontent
as Ethan Allen Hawley
(1962)
Nine Days of One Year
as Ilya Kulikov
(1962)
Mozart and Salieri
as Mozart
(1961)
A Leap Year
as Gennadiy Kupriyanov
(1961)
Until Next Spring
as Aleksei
(1960)
Letter Never Sent
as Konstantin Sabinin
(1958)
(1957)
Storm
as Muromtsev
(1957)
Next to Us
as Andrey Korolev
(1957)
On the Road of Immorality
as Юлиус Фучик
(1956)
Murder on Dante Street
as Molodoy fashist
(1956)
Soldiers
as Farber
(1956)
Crew
(1985)
Children of the Sun
Writer