Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Department: Acting
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
A Night for Reflection
1972
Teens in the Universe
1975
Moscow-Cassiopeia
1974
Trust
1976
The Winter of Our Discontent
1963
Big Boy
1982
Born by the Storm
1981
How He Lied to Her Husband
1956
Dark Eyes
1987
Enchanted
1994
On the Road of Immortality
1957
Beware of the Car!
1966
Soldiers
1956
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
1980
Crime and Punishment
1970
Hamlet
1964
Murder on Dante Street
1956
First Encounter - Last Encounter
1987
Daughters-Mothers
1975
The Queen of Spades
1982
Degree of Risk
1968
The Living Corpse
1969
They Fought for Their Motherland
1975
The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
1976
A Trap for Lonely Man
1990
Tchaikovsky
1970
Taming of the Fire
1972
Genius
1991
Nine Days of One Year
1962
Road to Eternity
1983
Hercules and Admetus
1986
Little Tragedies
1980
Gold
1992
Romance for Lovers
1974
Discovering Hamlet
2011
The Little Prince
1966
On Thursday and Never Again
1977
The Revelation of John the Foreprinter
1992
Naval Cadets, Charge!
1988
Bells of Autumn
1979
The Barrier
1979
The Cabal of Hypocrites
1988
The Princess and the Pea
1976
The Murderer
1993
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1986
Phenomenon
1983
This Fantastic World 7
1982
Anna and Commander
1975
Mozart and Salieri
1971
Gray Ural
1984
Mozart and Salieri
1962
Theft
1982
Dead Souls
1984
Children of the Sun
1985
The Night Guest
1958
Velvet Season
1978
Uncle Vanya
1970
Ladies Tailor
1990
Primary Russia
1986
Death Line
1991
At the End of the Night
1988
On the Same Planet
1966
Last Month of Autumn
1966
Fulfillment of Desires
1974
Heart Is Not a Stone
1989
The Steppe
1978
A Leap Year
1961
Two Under One Umbrella
1983
Возможная встреча
1992
Gold
1970
About a Puppy
1979
Khalif the Stork
1981
Late love
1983
The Last Road
1986
Next to Us
1957
The Cherry Orchard
1976
Without Sun
1987
The Siege of Venice
1991
White Feast
1996
Enemies
1978
Mysterious Heir
1987
Restricted Area
1988
My Sister Lucy
1985
Black Corridor
1988
The Legend of Till
1977
Until Next Spring
1961
Letter Never Sent
1960
Mirror
1975
Caesar and Cleopatra
1979
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1
1988
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
1987
I want to go to America
1993
The Case
1991
I Am Flying to You as a Memory...
1977
With You I Am Again...
1980
My Favorite Time
1987
Mother
1990
Fantasia
1976
Storm
1957
First Visitor
1966
The Heron and the Crane
1974
First Love
1969
Dina
1990
Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram
1972
Talking Hands of Travancore
1981
Evgeniy Urbanskiy
1968
Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director
1985
Podróż na wschód
1997
Ivanov
1982
The Story of the Communist
1976
Traveling With a Double
1992
My Heart Is in the Highlands
1976
Little Tragedies
1971
A Joke?!...
1981
Choice of Purpose
1975
At the Origins of Mankind
1976
To Be Hamlet
1985
The Idiot
1987
In Memory of Dostoevsky
1971
Awakening
1983
Naval Cadets, Charge!
1988
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
2000
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
1980
Dead Souls
1984
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
1988
Dandelion Wine
1998
Little Tragedies
1980
Легенды кино
2016
The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
1977
Children of the Sun
1985