Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Born: 1925-03-28 in USSR
Died: 1994-08-03
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2016
- Легенды кино as Self (archive footage)
2011
- Discovering Hamlet as Hamlet (archive footage)
2000
- Memories of Sherlock Holmes as Prime Minister Lord Thomas Ballinger
1998
1997
- Podróż na wschód as Mikołaj
1996
1994
1993
- I want to go to America
- The Murderer as Investigator
1992
- Gold
- The Revelation of John the Foreprinter as Ivan the Terrible
- Возможная встреча as Johann Sebastian Bach
- Traveling With a Double as Narrator
1991
- Genius as Гиля - главарь мафии «Принц»
- The Siege of Venice
- The Case as Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
- Death Line as теневой мафиози Луковецкий
1990
- Mother
- Dina
- Ladies Tailor as Isaak
- A Trap for Lonely Man as Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
1989
1988
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1 as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
- Naval Cadets, Charge! as kardinal Fleri
- Restricted Area
- At the End of the Night
- Naval Cadets, Charge! as kardinal Fleri
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins as Lord Thomas Bellinger - Prime Minister
- The Cabal of Hypocrites
- Black Corridor
1987
- Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
- Dark Eyes as Il Governarore di Sisoiev
- Without Sun
- First Encounter - Last Encounter as Member of counter-intelligence
- My Favorite Time as Narrator (voice)
- Mysterious Heir
- The Idiot as Narrator
1986
- Primary Russia as Emperor Justinian
- Hercules and Admetus
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The Last Road
1985
- Children of the Sun
- My Sister Lucy as (Narrator)
- To Be Hamlet as Self
- Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director as Himself
1984
- Dead Souls as Plushkin
- Dead Souls as Плюшкин
- Gray Ural as Narrator
1983
- Phenomenon as Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник)
- Two Under One Umbrella as Тиль
- Late love
- Road to Eternity
1982
- Big Boy
- Ivanov
- This Fantastic World 7 as капитан
- Theft
- The Queen of Spades as Chekalinsky
1981
- Khalif the Stork as Khalif / халиф
- Born by the Storm as Staryy graf
- Talking Hands of Travancore as Narrator (voice)
- A Joke?!...
1980
- Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears as Self
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
- With You I Am Again... as Narrator (voice)
- Little Tragedies
- Little Tragedies as Сальери \ старый барон
1979
- The Barrier as Antoni Manev
- Caesar and Cleopatra as Цезарь
- About a Puppy as The Puppy (voice)
- Bells of Autumn
1978
- Velvet Season as Police commissioner
- Enemies
- The Steppe
1977
- The Legend of Till as Charles V
- I Am Flying to You as a Memory... as Narrator (voice)
- On Thursday and Never Again as Ivan Modestovich, Sergey's stepfather
1976
- Trust as Nikolai Bobrikov
- The Cherry Orchard
- The Princess and the Pea as King
- Fantasia
- The Story of the Communist as Narrator (voice)
- The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
- At the Origins of Mankind as Narrator
- My Heart Is in the Highlands
1975
- Mirror as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
- They Fought for Their Motherland as surgeon
- Teens in the Universe as И. О. О.
- Anna and Commander as Dramatist
- Daughters-Mothers as Vadim Antonovich Vasilyev
- Choice of Purpose as Roosevelt
1974
- Romance for Lovers as Trumpeter
- The Heron and the Crane as Narrator (Voice)
- Moscow-Cassiopeia as И. О. О.
- Fulfillment of Desires
1972
- Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram as Passazhir tramvaya
- Taming of the Fire as Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy
- A Night for Reflection
1971
- Little Tragedies as Mozart
- In Memory of Dostoevsky as читает текст
1970
- Tchaikovsky as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)
- Gold
- Uncle Vanya as Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky
- Crime and Punishment as Porfiry Petrovitch
1969
- The Living Corpse as Ivan Petrovich the genius
- First Love as Father
1968
- Degree of Risk as Саша
- Evgeniy Urbanskiy as Himself
1966
- The Little Prince as Narrator (voice)
- Beware of the Car! as Юрий Деточкин
- On the Same Planet
- Last Month of Autumn
- First Visitor as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
1964
- Hamlet as Hamlet
1963
- The Winter of Our Discontent as Ethan Allen Hawley
1962
- Nine Days of One Year as Ilya Kulikov
- Mozart and Salieri as Mozart
1961
- Until Next Spring as Aleksei
- A Leap Year as Gennadiy Kupriyanov
1960
- Letter Never Sent as Konstantin Sabinin
1958
1957
- Next to Us as Andrey Korolev
- Storm as Muromtsev
- On the Road of Immorality as Юлиус Фучик
1956
- Murder on Dante Street as Molodoy fashist
- Soldiers as Farber
- How He Lied to Her Husband