Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Acting • Born 1925-03-28 – Died 1994-08-03
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
130 credits
A Night for Reflection
Movie • 1972
Teens in the Universe
Movie • 1975
И. О. О.
Moscow-Cassiopeia
Movie • 1974
И. О. О.
Trust
Movie • 1976
Nikolai Bobrikov
The Winter of Our Discontent
Movie • 1963
Ethan Allen Hawley
Big Boy
Movie • 1982
Born by the Storm
Movie • 1981
Staryy graf
How He Lied to Her Husband
Movie • 1956
Dark Eyes
Movie • 1987
Il Governarore di Sisoiev
Enchanted
Movie • 1994
On the Road of Immortality
Movie • 1957
Юлиус Фучик
Beware of the Car!
Movie • 1966
Юрий Деточкин
Soldiers
Movie • 1956
Farber
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Movie • 1980
Self
Crime and Punishment
Movie • 1970
Porfiry Petrovitch
Hamlet
Movie • 1964
Hamlet
Murder on Dante Street
Movie • 1956
Molodoy fashist
First Encounter - Last Encounter
Movie • 1987
Member of counter-intelligence
Daughters-Mothers
Movie • 1975
Vadim Antonovich Vasilyev
The Queen of Spades
Movie • 1982
Chekalinsky
Degree of Risk
Movie • 1968
Саша
The Living Corpse
Movie • 1969
Ivan Petrovich the genius
They Fought for Their Motherland
Movie • 1975
surgeon
The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
Movie • 1976
A Trap for Lonely Man
Movie • 1990
Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
Tchaikovsky
Movie • 1970
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)
Taming of the Fire
Movie • 1972
Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy
Genius
Movie • 1991
Гиля - главарь мафии «Принц»
Nine Days of One Year
Movie • 1962
Ilya Kulikov
Road to Eternity
Movie • 1983
Hercules and Admetus
Movie • 1986
Little Tragedies
Movie • 1980
Сальери \ старый барон
Gold
Movie • 1992
Romance for Lovers
Movie • 1974
Trumpeter
Discovering Hamlet
Movie • 2011
Hamlet (archive footage)
The Little Prince
Movie • 1966
Narrator (voice)
On Thursday and Never Again
Movie • 1977
Ivan Modestovich, Sergey's stepfather
The Revelation of John the Foreprinter
Movie • 1992
Ivan the Terrible
Naval Cadets, Charge!
Movie • 1988
kardinal Fleri
Bells of Autumn
Movie • 1979
The Barrier
Movie • 1979
Antoni Manev
The Cabal of Hypocrites
Movie • 1988
The Princess and the Pea
Movie • 1976
King
The Murderer
Movie • 1993
Investigator
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie • 1986
Phenomenon
Movie • 1983
Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник)
This Fantastic World 7
Movie • 1982
капитан
Anna and Commander
Movie • 1975
Dramatist
Mozart and Salieri
Movie • 1971
Mozart
Gray Ural
Movie • 1984
Narrator
Mozart and Salieri
Movie • 1962
Mozart
Theft
Movie • 1982
Dead Souls
Movie • 1984
Plushkin
Children of the Sun
Movie • 1985
The Night Guest
Movie • 1958
Velvet Season
Movie • 1978
Police commissioner
Uncle Vanya
Movie • 1970
Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky
Ladies Tailor
Movie • 1990
Isaak
Primary Russia
Movie • 1986
Emperor Justinian
Death Line
Movie • 1991
теневой мафиози Луковецкий
At the End of the Night
Movie • 1988
On the Same Planet
Movie • 1966
Last Month of Autumn
Movie • 1966
Fulfillment of Desires
Movie • 1974
Heart Is Not a Stone
Movie • 1989
The Steppe
Movie • 1978
A Leap Year
Movie • 1961
Gennadiy Kupriyanov
Two Under One Umbrella
Movie • 1983
Тиль
Возможная встреча
Movie • 1992
Johann Sebastian Bach
Gold
Movie • 1970
About a Puppy
Movie • 1979
The Puppy (voice)
Khalif the Stork
Movie • 1981
Khalif / халиф
Late love
Movie • 1983
The Last Road
Movie • 1986
Next to Us
Movie • 1957
Andrey Korolev
The Cherry Orchard
Movie • 1976
Without Sun
Movie • 1987
The Siege of Venice
Movie • 1991
White Feast
Movie • 1996
Enemies
Movie • 1978
Mysterious Heir
Movie • 1987
Restricted Area
Movie • 1988
My Sister Lucy
Movie • 1985
(Narrator)
Black Corridor
Movie • 1988
The Legend of Till
Movie • 1977
Charles V
Until Next Spring
Movie • 1961
Aleksei
Letter Never Sent
Movie • 1960
Konstantin Sabinin
Mirror
Movie • 1975
Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
Caesar and Cleopatra
Movie • 1979
Цезарь
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1
Movie • 1988
Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
Movie • 1987
Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
I want to go to America
Movie • 1993
The Case
Movie • 1991
Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
I Am Flying to You as a Memory...
Movie • 1977
Narrator (voice)
With You I Am Again...
Movie • 1980
Narrator (voice)
My Favorite Time
Movie • 1987
Narrator (voice)
Mother
Movie • 1990
Fantasia
Movie • 1976
Storm
Movie • 1957
Muromtsev
First Visitor
Movie • 1966
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The Heron and the Crane
Movie • 1974
Narrator (Voice)
First Love
Movie • 1969
Father
Dina
Movie • 1990
Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram
Movie • 1972
Passazhir tramvaya
Talking Hands of Travancore
Movie • 1981
Narrator (voice)
Evgeniy Urbanskiy
Movie • 1968
Himself
Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director
Movie • 1985
Himself
Podróż na wschód
Movie • 1997
Mikołaj
Ivanov
Movie • 1982
The Story of the Communist
Movie • 1976
Narrator (voice)
Traveling With a Double
Movie • 1992
Narrator
My Heart Is in the Highlands
Movie • 1976
Little Tragedies
Movie • 1971
Mozart
A Joke?!...
Movie • 1981
Choice of Purpose
Movie • 1975
Roosevelt
At the Origins of Mankind
Movie • 1976
Narrator
To Be Hamlet
Movie • 1985
Self
The Idiot
Movie • 1987
Narrator
In Memory of Dostoevsky
Movie • 1971
читает текст
Awakening
Movie • 1983
генерал Гиппиус
Naval Cadets, Charge!
TV • 1988
kardinal Fleri
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 2000
Prime Minister Lord Thomas Ballinger
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
TV • 1980
Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
Dead Souls
TV • 1984
Плюшкин
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
TV • 1988
Lord Thomas Bellinger - Prime Minister
Dandelion Wine
TV • 1998
Little Tragedies
TV • 1980
Легенды кино
TV • 2016
Self (archive footage)
The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
TV • 1977
Children of the Sun
TV • 1985