Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Actor · 1925–1994 · 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.

Acted in 109

2010s

2011
Discovering Hamlet
Hamlet (archive footage)

2000s

2000
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
Prime Minister Lord Thomas Ballinger · 13 episodes

1990s

1998
Dandelion Wine
TV
1996
White Feast
Movie
1994
Enchanted
Movie
1993
The Murderer
Investigator
I want to go to America
Movie
1992
Genius
Gilya «Prints» is the head of the mafia
Gold
Movie
Возможная встреча
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Revelation of John the Foreprinter
Ivan the Terrible
1991
The Case
Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
The Siege of Venice
Inquisitor
The Case of Sukhovo-Kobylin
Петр Константинович Муромский · 4 episodes
Death Line
теневой мафиози Луковецкий
1990
A Trap for Lonely Man
Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
Mother
Movie
Ladies Tailor
Isaak
Dina
Movie

1980s

1989
Heart Is Not a Stone
Movie · Drama
1988
Naval Cadets, Charge!
kardinal Fleri
73
At the End of the Night
Movie
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1
Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
Lord Thomas Bellinger - Prime Minister · 1 episode
The Cabal of Hypocrites
Movie
Restricted Area
Movie
Black Corridor
Movie
Naval Cadets, Charge!
kardinal Fleri · 4 episodes
1987
Without Sun
Movie
First Encounter - Last Encounter
Member of counter-intelligence
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
Dark Eyes
Il Governarore di Sisoiev
76
Mysterious Heir
Movie
1986
The Last Road
Movie
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie
Primary Russia
Emperor Justinian
Hercules and Admetus
Movie
1985
Children of the Sun
Movie
Children of the Sun
TV
My Sister Lucy
(Narrator)
1984
Dead Souls
Plushkin
Dead Souls
Plyushkin · 2 episodes
1983
Two Under One Umbrella
Тиль
Phenomenon
Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник)
Late love
Movie
Road to Eternity
Movie
1982
The Queen of Spades
Chekalinsky
Big Boy
Movie
Theft
Movie
Ivanov
Movie
This Fantastic World 7
капитан
1981
Born by the Storm
Staryy graf
Khalif the Stork
Khalif / халиф
A Joke?!...
Movie
1980
Little Tragedies
Salieri, Baron · 1 episode
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister · 1 episode