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)
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
- The Murderer as Investigator
- I want to go to America
1992
- Возможная встреча as Johann Sebastian Bach
- Gold
- Genius as Gilya «Prints» is the head of the mafia
- The Revelation of John the Foreprinter as Ivan the Terrible
- Traveling With a Double as Narrator
1991
- The Case of Sukhovo-Kobylin as Петр Константинович Муромский
- The Siege of Venice as Inquisitor
- Death Line as теневой мафиози Луковецкий
- The Case as Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
1990
- Mother
- A Trap for Lonely Man as Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
- Ladies Tailor as Isaak
- Dina
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
- Black Corridor
- 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
- The Cabal of Hypocrites
- Restricted Area
- At the End of the Night
1987
- Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
- Without Sun
- Dark Eyes as Il Governarore di Sisoiev
- Mysterious Heir
- First Encounter - Last Encounter as Member of counter-intelligence
- The Idiot as Narrator
- My Favorite Time as Narrator (voice)
1986
- Hercules and Admetus
- The Last Road
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Primary Russia as Emperor Justinian
1985
- To Be Hamlet as Self
- Children of the Sun
- My Sister Lucy as (Narrator)
- 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
- Late love
- Awakening as генерал Гиппиус
- Phenomenon as Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник)
- Road to Eternity
- Two Under One Umbrella as Тиль
1982
- Ivanov
- The Queen of Spades as Chekalinsky
- Big Boy
- This Fantastic World 7 as капитан
- Theft
1981
- Born by the Storm as Staryy graf
- Khalif the Stork as Khalif / халиф
- A Joke?!...
- Talking Hands of Travancore as Narrator (voice)
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
- Bells of Autumn as Narrator (voice)
- About a Puppy as The Puppy (voice)
- Caesar and Cleopatra as Цезарь
- The Barrier as Antoni Manev
1978
- The Steppe as Moisey Moiseevich
- Velvet Season as Police commissioner
- Enemies
1977
- The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
- 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)
1976
- The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
- The Princess and the Pea as King
- Trust as Nikolai Bobrikov
- The Cherry Orchard
- Fantasia
- My Heart Is in the Highlands
- At the Origins of Mankind as Narrator
- The Story of the Communist as Narrator (voice)
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
- Choice of Purpose as Roosevelt
- Daughters-Mothers as Vadim Antonovich Vasilyev
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
- In Memory of Dostoevsky as читает текст
- Little Tragedies as Mozart
- Mozart and Salieri as Mozart
1970
- Gold
- Crime and Punishment as Porfiry Petrovitch
- Uncle Vanya as Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky
- Tchaikovsky as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)
1969
- The Living Corpse as Ivan Petrovich the genius
- First Love as Father
1968
- Evgeniy Urbanskiy as Self
- Degree of Risk as Саша
1966
- The Little Prince as Narrator (voice)
- Beware of the Car! as Юрий Деточкин
- Last Month of Autumn
- On the Same Planet
- 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
- A Leap Year as Gennadiy Kupriyanov
- Until Next Spring as Aleksei
1960
- Letter Never Sent as Konstantin Sabinin
1958
- First Day as Antonov-Ovseyenko
- The Night Guest
1957
- Next to Us as Andrey Korolev
- Storm as Muromtsev
- On the Road of Immortality as Юлиус Фучик
1956
- How He Lied to Her Husband
- Murder on Dante Street as Molodoy fashist
- Soldiers as Farber