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.

Known For

Mirror

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

Memories of Sherlock Holmes

Legends of Cinema

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

Dead Souls

Naval Cadets, Charge!

Little Tragedies

All Movies (123)

• Discovering Hamlet2011 · as Hamlet (archive footage)
• Георгий Вицин. Отшельник2008 · as Self (archive footage)
• Podróż na wschód1997 · as Mikołaj
• White Feast1996
• Enchanted1994
• Initiation Into Love1994
• The Murderer1993 · as Investigator
• I want to go to America1993
• Genius1992 · as Gilya «Prints» is the head of the mafia
• Traveling With a Double1992 · as Narrator
• Gold1992
• Возможная встреча1992 · as Johann Sebastian Bach
• The Revelation of John the Foreprinter1992 · as Ivan the Terrible
• The Case1991 · as Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
• The Siege of Venice1991
• Death Line1991 · as теневой мафиози Луковецкий
• A Trap for Lonely Man1990 · as Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
• Mother1990
• Ladies Tailor1990 · as Isaak
• Dina1990
• Heart Is Not a Stone1989
• Naval Cadets, Charge!1988 · as kardinal Fleri
• At the End of the Night1988
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 11988 · as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
• The Cabal of Hypocrites1988
• Restricted Area1988
• Black Corridor1988
• The Idiot1987 · as Narrator
• Without Sun1987
• First Encounter - Last Encounter1987 · as Member of counter-intelligence
• Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century1987 · as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
• Dark Eyes1987 · as Il Governarore di Sisoiev
• Mysterious Heir1987
• My Favorite Time1987 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Last Road1986
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde1986
• Primary Russia1986 · as Emperor Justinian
• Hercules and Admetus1986
• Children of the Sun1985
• Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director1985 · as Himself
• To Be Hamlet1985 · as Self
• My Sister Lucy1985 · as (Narrator)
• Dead Souls1984 · as Plushkin
• Gray Ural1984 · as Narrator
• Two Under One Umbrella1983 · as Тиль
• Phenomenon1983 · as Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник)
• Late love1983
• Road to Eternity1983
• Awakening1983 · as генерал Гиппиус
• The Queen of Spades1982 · as Chekalinsky
• Big Boy1982
• Theft1982
• Ivanov1982
• This Fantastic World 71982 · as капитан
• Born by the Storm1981 · as Staryy graf
• Talking Hands of Travancore1981 · as Narrator (voice)
• Khalif the Stork1981 · as Khalif / халиф
• A Joke?!...1981
• Little Tragedies1980 · as Сальери \ старый барон
• Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears1980 · as self
• With You I Am Again...1980 · as Narrator (voice)
• Caesar and Cleopatra1979 · as Цезарь
• The Barrier1979 · as Antoni Manev
• About a Puppy1979 · as The Puppy (voice)
• Bells of Autumn1979 · as Narrator (voice)
• Enemies1978
• Velvet Season1978 · as Police commissioner
• The Steppe1978 · as Moisey Moiseevich
• The Legend of Till1977 · as Charles V
• On Thursday and Never Again1977 · as Ivan Modestovich, Sergey's stepfather
• I Am Flying to You as a Memory...1977 · as Narrator (voice)
• The Story of the Communist1976 · as Narrator (voice)
• Fantasia1976
• The Princess and the Pea1976 · as King
• The Days of Surgeon Mishkin1976
• The Cherry Orchard1976
• My Heart Is in the Highlands1976
• Trust1976 · as Nikolai Bobrikov
• At the Origins of Mankind1976 · as Narrator
• Choice of Purpose1975 · as Roosevelt
• Anna and Commander1975 · as Dramatist
• They Fought for Their Motherland1975 · as surgeon
• Daughters-Mothers1975 · as Vadim Antonovich Vasilyev
• Teens in the Universe1975 · as И. О. О.
• Mirror1975 · as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
• Romance for Lovers1974 · as Trumpeter
• Moscow-Cassiopeia1974 · as И. О. О.
• Fulfillment of Desires1974
• The Heron and the Crane1974 · as Narrator (Voice)
• A Night for Reflection1972
• Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram1972 · as Passazhir tramvaya
• Taming of the Fire1972 · as Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy
• Mozart and Salieri1971 · as Mozart
• Little Tragedies1971 · as Mozart
• In Memory of Dostoevsky1971 · as читает текст
• Uncle Vanya1970 · as Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky
• Crime and Punishment1970 · as Porfiry Petrovitch
• Tchaikovsky1970 · as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)
• Gold1970
• The Living Corpse1969 · as Ivan Petrovich the genius
• First Love1969 · as Father
• Degree of Risk1968 · as Саша
• Evgeniy Urbanskiy1968 · as Self
• The Little Prince1966 · as Narrator (voice)
• On the Same Planet1966
• First Visitor1966 · as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
• Last Month of Autumn1966
• Beware of the Car!1966 · as Юрий Деточкин
• Hamlet1964 · as Hamlet
• The Winter of Our Discontent1963 · as Ethan Allen Hawley
• Mozart and Salieri1962 · as Mozart
• Nine Days of One Year1962 · as Ilya Kulikov
• A Leap Year1961 · as Gennadiy Kupriyanov
• Until Next Spring1961 · as Aleksei
• Letter Never Sent1960 · as Konstantin Sabinin
• The Night Guest1958
• First Day1958 · as Antonov-Ovseyenko
• Next to Us1957 · as Andrey Korolev
• Storm1957 · as Muromtsev
• On the Road of Immortality1957 · as Юлиус Фучик
• Soldiers1956 · as Farber
• Murder on Dante Street1956 · as Molodoy fashist
• How He Lied to Her Husband1956

All TV Shows (11)

• Legends of Cinema2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Memories of Sherlock Holmes2000 · as Prime Minister Lord Thomas Ballinger
• Dandelion Wine1998
• The Case of Sukhovo-Kobylin1991 · as Петр Константинович Муромский
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins1988 · as Lord Thomas Bellinger - Prime Minister
• Naval Cadets, Charge!1988 · as kardinal Fleri
• Children of the Sun1985
• Dead Souls1984 · as Плюшкин
• Little Tragedies1980
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson1980 · as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
• The Days of Surgeon Mishkin1977