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.
Filmography
Discovering Hamlet
2011
as Hamlet (archive footage)
- No poster
Георгий Вицин. Отшельник
2008
as Self (archive footage)
- No poster
Podróż na wschód
1997
as Mikołaj
White Feast
1996
Enchanted
1994
- No poster
Initiation Into Love
1994
The Murderer
1993
as Investigator
I want to go to America
1993
Genius
1992
as Gilya «Prints» is the head of the mafia
Traveling With a Double
1992
as Narrator
Gold
1992
Возможная встреча
1992
as Johann Sebastian Bach
The Revelation of John the Foreprinter
1992
as Ivan the Terrible
The Case
1991
as Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
The Siege of Venice
1991
as Inquisitor
Death Line
1991
as теневой мафиози Луковецкий
A Trap for Lonely Man
1990
as Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
Mother
1990
Ladies Tailor
1990
as Isaak
Dina
1990
Heart Is Not a Stone
1989
Naval Cadets, Charge!
1988
as kardinal Fleri
At the End of the Night
1988
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1
1988
as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister