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Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Acting Born Mar 28, 1925 USSR 24 credits

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

Film

Mirror

as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
Film

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

as self

Dead Souls

as Плюшкин

Naval Cadets, Charge!

as kardinal Fleri

The Stand

as surgeon

Full filmography

  • Mirror (1975) as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980) as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
  • Memories of Sherlock Holmes (2000) as Prime Minister Lord Thomas Ballinger
  • Legends of Cinema (2016) as Self (archive footage)
  • Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980) as self
  • Dead Souls (1984) as Плюшкин
  • Naval Cadets, Charge! (1988) as kardinal Fleri
  • Little Tragedies (1980)
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins (1988) as Lord Thomas Bellinger - Prime Minister
  • Beware of the Car! (1966) as Юрий Деточкин
  • Naval Cadets, Charge! (1988) as kardinal Fleri
  • The Case of Sukhovo-Kobylin (1991) as Петр Константинович Муромский
  • Dark Eyes (1987) as Il Governarore di Sisoiev
  • Dandelion Wine (1998)
  • Uncle Vanya (1970) as Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky
  • The Days of Surgeon Mishkin (1976)
  • They Fought for Their Motherland (1975) as surgeon
  • Letter Never Sent (1960) as Konstantin Sabinin
  • Hamlet (1964) as Hamlet
  • Tchaikovsky (1970) as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)
  • Teens in the Universe (1975) as И. О. О.
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1986)
  • The Legend of Till (1977) as Charles V
  • Khalif the Stork (1981) as Khalif / халиф