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