Name
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1925-03-28
Deathday
1994-08-03 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
Known For
The Steppe
(11 Votes)
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A boy in Russia, circa 1900, makes a daunting trip from his home village to a school in th...
Relase Date : 26 May, 1978
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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
(285 Votes)
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Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in ...
Relase Date : 11 Feb, 1980
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Naval Cadets, Charge!
(31 Votes)
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Three naval cadets accidentally get possession of a secret diary that was stolen from Best...
Relase Date : 6 Jun, 1988
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They Fought for Their Motherland
(65 Votes)
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In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the brid...
Relase Date : 5 Nov, 1975
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Crime and Punishment
(28 Votes)
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Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apar...
Relase Date : 28 Sep, 1970
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Movies
Tv Shows
- 1972 A Night for Reflection
- 1975 Teens in the Universe as И. О. О.
- 1974 Moscow-Cassiopeia as И. О. О.
- 1976 Trust as Nikolai Bobrikov
- 1963 The Winter of Our Discontent as Ethan Allen Hawley
- 1982 Big Boy
- 1981 Born by the Storm as Staryy graf
- 1956 How He Lied to Her Husband
- 1987 Dark Eyes as Il Governarore di Sisoiev
- 1994 Enchanted
- 1957 On the Road of Immortality as Юлиус Фучик
- 1966 Beware of the Car! as Юрий Деточкин
- 1956 Soldiers as Farber
- 1980 Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears as self
- 1970 Crime and Punishment as Porfiry Petrovitch
- 1964 Hamlet as Hamlet
- 1956 Murder on Dante Street as Molodoy fashist
- 1987 First Encounter - Last Encounter as Member of counter-intelligence
- 1975 Daughters-Mothers as Vadim Antonovich Vasilyev
- 1982 The Queen of Spades as Chekalinsky
- 1968 Degree of Risk as Саша
- 1969 The Living Corpse as Ivan Petrovich the genius
- 1975 They Fought for Their Motherland as surgeon
- 1976 The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
- 1990 A Trap for Lonely Man as Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
- 1970 Tchaikovsky as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)
- 1972 Taming of the Fire as Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy
- 1992 Genius as Gilya «Prints» is the head of the mafia
- 1962 Nine Days of One Year as Ilya Kulikov
- 1983 Road to Eternity
- 1986 Hercules and Admetus
- 1980 Little Tragedies as Сальери \ старый барон
- 1992 Gold
- 1974 Romance for Lovers as Trumpeter
- 2011 Discovering Hamlet as Hamlet (archive footage)
- 1966 The Little Prince as Narrator (voice)
- 1977 On Thursday and Never Again as Ivan Modestovich, Sergey's stepfather
- 1992 The Revelation of John the Foreprinter as Ivan the Terrible
- 1988 Naval Cadets, Charge! as kardinal Fleri
- 1979 Bells of Autumn as Narrator (voice)
- 1979 The Barrier as Antoni Manev
- 1988 The Cabal of Hypocrites
- 1976 The Princess and the Pea as King
- 1993 The Murderer as Investigator
- 1986 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- 1983 Phenomenon as Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник)
- 1982 This Fantastic World 7 as капитан
- 1975 Anna and Commander as Dramatist
- 1971 Mozart and Salieri as Mozart
- 1984 Gray Ural as Narrator
- 1962 Mozart and Salieri as Mozart
- 1982 Theft
- 1984 Dead Souls as Plushkin
- 1985 Children of the Sun
- 1958 The Night Guest
- 1978 Velvet Season as Police commissioner
- 1970 Uncle Vanya as Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky
- 1990 Ladies Tailor as Isaak
- 1986 Primary Russia as Emperor Justinian
- 1991 Death Line as теневой мафиози Луковецкий
- 1988 At the End of the Night
- 1966 On the Same Planet
- 1966 Last Month of Autumn
- 1974 Fulfillment of Desires
- 1989 Heart Is Not a Stone
- 1978 The Steppe as Moisey Moiseevich
- 1961 A Leap Year as Gennadiy Kupriyanov
- 1983 Two Under One Umbrella as Тиль
- 1992 Возможная встреча as Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1970 Gold
- 1979 About a Puppy as The Puppy (voice)
- 1981 Khalif the Stork as Khalif / халиф
- 1983 Late love
- 1986 The Last Road
- 1957 Next to Us as Andrey Korolev
- 1976 The Cherry Orchard
- 1987 Without Sun
- 1991 The Siege of Venice as Inquisitor
- 1996 White Feast
- 1978 Enemies
- 1987 Mysterious Heir
- 1988 Restricted Area
- 1985 My Sister Lucy as (Narrator)
- 1988 Black Corridor
- 1977 The Legend of Till as Charles V
- 1961 Until Next Spring as Aleksei
- 1960 Letter Never Sent as Konstantin Sabinin
- 1975 Mirror as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
- 1979 Caesar and Cleopatra as Цезарь
- 1988 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1 as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
- 1987 Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
- 1993 I want to go to America
- 1991 The Case as Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
- 1980 With You I Am Again... as Narrator (voice)
- 1977 I Am Flying to You as a Memory... as Narrator (voice)
- 1987 My Favorite Time as Narrator (voice)
- 1990 Mother
- 1976 Fantasia
- 1957 Storm as Muromtsev
- 1966 First Visitor as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
- 1974 The Heron and the Crane as Narrator (Voice)
- 1969 First Love as Father
- 1990 Dina
- 1972 Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram as Passazhir tramvaya
- 1981 Talking Hands of Travancore as Narrator (voice)
- 1968 Evgeniy Urbanskiy as Self
- 1985 Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director as Himself
- 1997 Podróż na wschód as Mikołaj
- 1982 Ivanov
- 1976 The Story of the Communist as Narrator (voice)
- 1992 Traveling With a Double as Narrator
- 1976 My Heart Is in the Highlands
- 1971 Little Tragedies as Mozart
- 1981 A Joke?!...
- 1975 Choice of Purpose as Roosevelt
- 1976 At the Origins of Mankind as Narrator
- 1985 To Be Hamlet as Self
- 1987 The Idiot as Narrator
- 1971 In Memory of Dostoevsky as читает текст
- 1983 Awakening as генерал Гиппиус
- 1958 First Day as Antonov-Ovseyenko
- 2008 Георгий Вицин. Отшельник as Self (archive footage)
- 1994 Initiation Into Love
- 1988 Naval Cadets, Charge! ( 4 episodes ) as kardinal Fleri
- 2000 Memories of Sherlock Holmes ( 13 episodes ) as Prime Minister Lord Thomas Ballinger
- 1980 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson ( 1 episode ) as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
- 1984 Dead Souls ( 5 episodes ) as Плюшкин
- 1988 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins ( 1 episode ) as Lord Thomas Bellinger - Prime Minister
- 1998 Dandelion Wine ( 4 episodes )
- 1980 Little Tragedies ( 3 episodes )
- 2016 Legends of Cinema ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1977 The Days of Surgeon Mishkin ( 3 episodes )
- 1985 Children of the Sun ( 2 episodes )
- 1991 The Case of Sukhovo-Kobylin ( 4 episodes ) as Петр Константинович Муромский
