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

as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

as Self

Beware of the Car!

as Yury Detochkin

Letter Never Sent

as Konstantin Sabinin

Dark Eyes

as Il Governarore di Sisoiev

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister

They Fought for Their Motherland

as surgeon

Hamlet

as Hamlet

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches

as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister

Moscow-Cassiopeia

as И. О. О.