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
- Legends of Cinema as Self (archive footage)
2011
- Discovering Hamlet as Hamlet (archive footage)
2009
- Георгий Жжёнов. Агент надежды as Self
2008
- Георгий Вицин. Отшельник as Self (archive footage)
2000
- Memories of Sherlock Holmes as Prime Minister Lord Thomas Ballinger
1998
1997
- Podróż na wschód as Mikołaj
1996
1993
- I want to go to America
- The Murderer as Investigator
1992
- The Revelation of John the Foreprinter as Ivan the Terrible
- Возможная встреча as Johann Sebastian Bach
- Gold
- Traveling With a Double as Narrator
1991
- Genius as Гиля - главарь мафии «Принц»
- The Case as Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
- The Siege of Venice
- Death Line as теневой мафиози Луковецкий
1990
- Mother
- A Trap for Lonely Man as Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
- Dina
- Ladies Tailor as Isaak
1989
1988
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins as Lord Thomas Bellinger - Prime Minister
- Naval Cadets, Charge! as kardinal Fleri
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1 as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
- At the End of the Night
- Restricted Area
- The Cabal of Hypocrites
- Naval Cadets, Charge! as kardinal Fleri
- Black Corridor
1987
- First Encounter - Last Encounter as Member of counter-intelligence
- Dark Eyes as Il Governarore di Sisoiev
- Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
- Mysterious Heir
- My Favorite Time as Narrator (voice)
- Without Sun
- The Idiot as Narrator
1986
- Primary Russia as Emperor Justinian
- The Last Road
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Hercules and Admetus
1985
- My Sister Lucy as (Narrator)
- Children of the Sun
- To Be Hamlet as Self
- Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director as Himself
- Children of the Sun
1984
- Dead Souls as Плюшкин
- Dead Souls as Plushkin
- Gray Ural as Narrator
1983
- Two Under One Umbrella as Тиль
- Road to Eternity
- Late love
- Phenomenon as Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник)
- Awakening as генерал Гиппиус
1982
- Big Boy
- The Queen of Spades as Chekalinsky
- Ivanov
- This Fantastic World 7 as капитан
- Theft
1981
- Khalif the Stork as Khalif / халиф
- Talking Hands of Travancore as Narrator (voice)
- A Joke?!...
- Born by the Storm as Staryy graf
1980
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
- Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears as self
- Little Tragedies
- Little Tragedies as Сальери \ старый барон
- With You I Am Again... as Narrator (voice)
1979
- About a Puppy as The Puppy (voice)
- Caesar and Cleopatra as Цезарь
- Bells of Autumn as Narrator (voice)
- The Barrier as Antoni Manev
1978
- Enemies
- Velvet Season as Police commissioner
- The Steppe as Moisey Moiseevich
1977
- The Legend of Till as Charles V
- On Thursday and Never Again as Ivan Modestovich, Sergey's stepfather
- I Am Flying to You as a Memory... as Narrator (voice)
- The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
1976
- Trust as Nikolai Bobrikov
- The Princess and the Pea as King
- My Heart Is in the Highlands
- The Cherry Orchard
- Fantasia
- The Story of the Communist as Narrator (voice)
- At the Origins of Mankind as Narrator
- The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
1975
- Mirror as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
- They Fought for Their Motherland as surgeon
- Teens in the Universe as И. О. О.
- Daughters-Mothers as Vadim Antonovich Vasilyev
- Anna and Commander as Dramatist
- Choice of Purpose as Roosevelt
1974
- Romance for Lovers as Trumpeter
- Fulfillment of Desires
- Moscow-Cassiopeia as И. О. О.
- The Heron and the Crane as Narrator (Voice)
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
- Mozart and Salieri as Mozart
- In Memory of Dostoevsky as читает текст
1970
- Uncle Vanya as Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky
- Tchaikovsky as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)
- Crime and Punishment as Porfiry Petrovitch
- Gold
1969
- The Living Corpse as Ivan Petrovich the genius
- First Love as Father
1968
- Evgeniy Urbanskiy as Himself
- Degree of Risk as Саша
1966
- Beware of the Car! as Юрий Деточкин
- First Visitor as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
- Last Month of Autumn
- The Little Prince as Narrator (voice)
- On the Same Planet
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
- A Leap Year as Gennadiy Kupriyanov
- Until Next Spring as Aleksei
1960
- Letter Never Sent as Konstantin Sabinin
1958
- The Night Guest
- First Day as Antonov-Ovseyenko
1957
- Next to Us as Andrey Korolev
- On the Road of Immortality as Юлиус Фучик
- Storm as Muromtsev
1956
- Murder on Dante Street as Molodoy fashist
- How He Lied to Her Husband
- Soldiers as Farber