Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Born March 28, 1925 (Age: 101)
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USSR
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.
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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Filmography
Discovering Hamlet
2011
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as Hamlet (archive footage)
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Age: 86
No Image
Podróż na wschód
1997
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as Mikołaj
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Age: 72
White Feast
1996
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as
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Age: 71
The Murderer
1993
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as Investigator
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Age: 67
I want to go to America
1993
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as
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Age: 67
Traveling With a Double
1992
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as Narrator
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Age: 67
Gold
1992
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as
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Age: 67
Возможная встреча
1992
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as Johann Sebastian Bach
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Age: 67
The Revelation of John the Foreprinter
1992
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as Ivan the Terrible
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Age: 67
The Case
1991
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as Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
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Age: 66
The Siege of Venice
1991
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as
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Age: 66
Genius
1991
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as Гиля - главарь мафии «Принц»
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Age: 66
Death Line
1991
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as теневой мафиози Луковецкий
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Age: 65
Mother
1990
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as
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Age: 65
A Trap for Lonely Man
1990
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as Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
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Age: 65
Ladies Tailor
1990
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as Isaak
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Age: 65
Dina
1990
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as
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Age: 64
Heart Is Not a Stone
1989
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as
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Age: 63
Naval Cadets, Charge!
1988
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as kardinal Fleri
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Age: 63
At the End of the Night
1988
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as
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Age: 63
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1
1988
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as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
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Age: 62
Restricted Area
1988
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as
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Age: 62
The Cabal of Hypocrites
1988
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as
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Age: 62
Black Corridor
1988
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as
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Age: 62
The Idiot
1987
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as Narrator
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Age: 62
Without Sun
1987
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as
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Age: 62
First Encounter - Last Encounter
1987
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as Member of counter-intelligence
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Age: 62
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
1987
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as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
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Age: 62
Dark Eyes
1987
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as Il Governarore di Sisoiev
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Age: 61
My Favorite Time
1987
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 61
Mysterious Heir
1987
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as
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Age: 61
Children of the Sun
1985
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as
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Age: 60
Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director
1985
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as Himself
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Age: 59
To Be Hamlet
1985
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as Self
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Age: 59
My Sister Lucy
1985
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as (Narrator)
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Age: 59
Gray Ural
1984
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as Narrator
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Age: 58
Awakening
1983
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as генерал Гиппиус
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Age: 57
Ivanov
1982
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as
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Age: 56
This Fantastic World 7
1982
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as капитан
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Age: 56
Born by the Storm
1981
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as Staryy graf
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Age: 56
Talking Hands of Travancore
1981
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 56
Khalif the Stork
1981
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as Khalif / халиф
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Age: 55
A Joke?!...
1981
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as
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Age: 55
Little Tragedies
1980
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as Сальери \ старый барон
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Age: 55
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
1980
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as Self
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Age: 54
With You I Am Again...
1980
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 54
Enemies
1978
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as
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Age: 53
Velvet Season
1978
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as Police commissioner
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Age: 53
The Steppe
1978
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as
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Age: 53
I Am Flying to You as a Memory...
1977
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 51
At the Origins of Mankind
1976
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as Narrator
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Age: 50
Choice of Purpose
1975
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as Roosevelt
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Age: 50
Mirror
1975
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as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
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Age: 49
Romance for Lovers
1974
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as Trumpeter
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Age: 49
Moscow-Cassiopeia
1974
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as И. О. О.
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Age: 49
Fulfillment of Desires
1974
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as
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Age: 49
The Heron and the Crane
1974
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as Narrator (Voice)
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Age: 48
A Night for Reflection
1972
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as
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Age: 47
Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram
1972
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as Passazhir tramvaya
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Age: 47
Taming of the Fire
1972
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as Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy
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Age: 47
In Memory of Dostoevsky
1971
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as читает текст
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Age: 45
No Image
Mozart and Salieri
1971
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as Mozart
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Age: 45
Little Tragedies
1971
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as Mozart
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Age: 45
Gold
1970
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as
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Age: 45
The Living Corpse
1969
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as Ivan Petrovich the genius
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Age: 44
First Love
1969
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as Father
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Age: 43
Evgeniy Urbanskiy
1968
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as Himself
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Age: 43
Beware of the Car!
1966
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as Юрий Деточкин
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Age: 41
Hamlet
1964
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as Hamlet
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Age: 39
The Winter of Our Discontent
1963
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as Ethan Allen Hawley
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Age: 37
Mozart and Salieri
1962
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as Mozart
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Age: 37
Nine Days of One Year
1962
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as Ilya Kulikov
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Age: 36
A Leap Year
1961
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as Gennadiy Kupriyanov
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Age: 36
Until Next Spring
1961
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as Aleksei
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Age: 36
Letter Never Sent
1960
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as Konstantin Sabinin
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Age: 35
The Night Guest
1958
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as
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Age: 33
Soldiers
1956
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as Farber
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Age: 31
Murder on Dante Street
1956
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as Molodoy fashist
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Age: 31
How He Lied to Her Husband
1956
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as
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Age: 30