Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

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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

Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

self

Beware of the Car!

Юрий Деточкин

Letter Never Sent

Konstantin Sabinin

Dark Eyes

Il Governarore di Sisoiev

They Fought for Their Motherland

surgeon

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister

Hamlet

Full Filmography

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

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