Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Actor
- Born
- March 28, 1925 · USSR
- Died
- August 3, 1994 (age 69)
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).
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Awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1974.
Known for
Mirror
March 7, 1975
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
February 11, 1980
Beware of the Car!
May 22, 1966
Letter Never Sent
June 27, 1960
Dark Eyes
February 1, 1987
They Fought for Their Motherland
November 5, 1975
Hamlet
June 24, 1964
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
April 1, 1987
Moscow-Cassiopeia
September 23, 1974
The Heron and the Crane
January 1, 1974
Nine Days of One Year
March 5, 1962
Teens in the Universe
March 25, 1975
Acting121
- 2011Discovering Hamlet as Hamlet (archive footage)
- 1997Podróż na wschód as Mikołaj
- 1996White Feast
- 1994Enchanted
- 1994Initiation Into Love
- 1993The Murderer as Investigator
- 1993I want to go to America
- 1992Genius as Gilya «Prints» is the head of the mafia
- 1992Traveling With a Double as Narrator
- 1992Gold
- 1992Возможная встреча