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)
Traveling With a Double
as Narrator
(1992)
(1992)
Возможная встреча
as Johann Sebastian Bach
(1991)
Genius
as Гиля - главарь мафии «Принц»
(1991)
The Case
as Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
(1991)
Death Line
as теневой мафиози Луковецкий
(1991)
(1990)
(1990)
A Trap for Lonely Man
as Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
(1990)
(1990)
Ladies Tailor
as Isaak
(1989)
(1988)
(1988)
(1988)
(1988)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1
as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
(1988)
(1988)
Naval Cadets, Charge!
as kardinal Fleri
(1987)
Dark Eyes
as Il Governarore di Sisoiev
(1987)
First Encounter - Last Encounter
as Member of counter-intelligence
(1987)
(1987)
My Favorite Time
as Narrator (voice)
(1987)
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
(1987)
(1986)
(1986)
(1986)
Primary Russia
as Emperor Justinian
(1986)
(1985)
My Sister Lucy
as (Narrator)
(1985)
(1985)
(1985)
To Be Hamlet
as Self
(1984)
Dead Souls
as Plushkin
(1984)
Gray Ural
as Narrator
(1983)
Two Under One Umbrella
as Тиль
(1983)
(1983)
Phenomenon
as Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник)
(1983)
(1982)
The Queen of Spades
as Chekalinsky
(1982)
(1982)
(1982)
(1982)
This Fantastic World 7
as капитан
(1981)
Khalif the Stork
as Khalif / халиф
(1981)
(1981)
Talking Hands of Travancore
as Narrator (voice)
(1981)
Born by the Storm
as Staryy graf
(1980)
(1980)
With You I Am Again...
as Narrator (voice)
(1980)
Little Tragedies
as Сальери \ старый барон
(1979)
About a Puppy
as The Puppy (voice)
(1979)
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Цезарь
(1979)
The Barrier
as Antoni Manev
(1979)
(1978)
Velvet Season
as Police commissioner
(1978)
(1978)
(1977)
The Legend of Till
as Charles V
(1977)
I Am Flying to You as a Memory...
as Narrator (voice)
(1977)
On Thursday and Never Again
as Ivan Modestovich, Sergey's stepfather
(1976)
(1976)
The Princess and the Pea
as King
(1976)
The Story of the Communist
as Narrator (voice)
(1976)
Trust
as Nikolai Bobrikov
(1976)
(1976)
(1976)
(1976)
At the Origins of Mankind
as Narrator
(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
(1970)
Crime and Punishment
as Porfiry Petrovitch
(1970)
Uncle Vanya
as Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky
(1970)
Tchaikovsky
as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)
(1970)
(1969)
The Living Corpse
as Ivan Petrovich the genius
(1969)
First Love
as Father
(1968)
Degree of Risk
as Саша
(1968)
Evgeniy Urbanskiy
as Himself
(1966)
Beware of the Car!
as Юрий Иванович Деточкин, страховой агент
(1966)
First Visitor
as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
(1966)
(1966)
(1966)
The Little Prince
as Narrator (voice)
(1964)
Hamlet
as Hamlet
(1963)
(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)
Next to us
as Andrey Korolev
(1957)
Shtorm
as Muromtsev
(1957)
On the Road of Immorality
as Юлиус Фучик
(1956)
Soldiers
as Farber
(1956)
Murder on Dante Street
as Molodoy fashist
(1956)
Crew
(1985)
Children of the Sun
Writer