About
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Overview
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
Acting |
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2011 | Discovering Hamlet | Actor | Hamlet (archive footage) | 59 Average |
2000 | Memories of Sherlock Holmes | Actor | Prime Minister Lord Thomas Ballinger | 69 Fair |
1998 | Dandelion Wine | Actor | полковник Фрилей | N/A N/A |
1997 | Podróż na wschód | Actor | Mikołaj | N/A N/A |
1996 | White Feast | Actor | 59 Average |
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1994 | Enchanted | Actor | 58 Average |
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1993 | The Murderer | Actor | Investigator | 59 Average |
1993 | I want to go to America | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1992 | Traveling With a Double | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
1992 | Gold | Actor | 58 Average |
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1992 | The Revelation of John the Foreprinter | Actor | Ivan the Terrible | N/A N/A |
1991 | The Case | Actor | Muromsky | N/A N/A |
1991 | The Siege of Venice | Actor | 58 Average |
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1991 | Genius | Actor | Гиля - главарь мафии «Принц» | 59 Average |
1991 | Death Line | Actor | теневой мафиози Луковецкий | N/A N/A |
1990 | Mother | Actor | 58 Average |
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1990 | A Trap for Lonely Man | Actor | Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush | 59 Average |
1990 | Ladies Tailor | Actor | Isaak | 59 Average |
1990 | Dina | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1989 | Heart Is Not a Stone | Actor | 59 Average |
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1988 | Naval Cadets, Charge! | Actor | kardinal Fleri | 59 Average |
1988 | На исходе ночи | Actor | 58 Average |
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1988 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins, Part 1 | Actor | Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister | 59 Average |
1988 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Approaches | Actor | Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister | 60 Fair |
1988 | Black Corridor | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1988 | The Cabal of Hypocrites | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1988 | Restricted Area | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1988 | Naval Cadets, Charge! | Actor | kardinal Fleri | 70 Good |
1987 | Without Sun | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1987 | First Encounter - Last Encounter | Actor | Member of counter-intelligence | 58 Average |
1987 | Dark Eyes | Actor | Il Governarore di Sisoiev | 60 Fair |
1987 | My Favorite Time | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
1987 | Mysterious Heir | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1986 | The Last Road | Actor | 58 Average |
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1986 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Actor | 58 Average |
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1986 | Primary Russia | Actor | Emperor Justinian | 58 Average |
1986 | Hercules and Admetus | Actor | 59 Average |
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1985 | Children of the Sun | Actor | 58 Average |
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1985 | Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1985 | My Sister Lucy | Actor | (Narrator) | 58 Average |
1984 | Dead Souls | Actor | Plushkin | 59 Average |
1984 | Dead Souls | Actor | Плюшкин | 70 Good |
1984 | Gray Ural | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
1983 | Two Under One Umbrella | Actor | Тиль | 58 Average |
1983 | Phenomenon | Actor | Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник) | 58 Average |
1983 | Late love | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1983 | Road to Eternity | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1982 | The Queen of Spades | Actor | Chekalinsky | 59 Average |
1982 | Big Boy | Actor | 59 Average |
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1982 | Theft | Actor | 59 Average |
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1982 | This Fantastic World 7 | Actor | капитан | N/A N/A |
1981 | Born by the Storm | Actor | Staryy graf | N/A N/A |
1981 | Talking Hands of Travancore | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
1981 | Khalif the Stork | Actor | Khalif / халиф | 59 Average |
1980 | Little Tragedies | Actor | Сальери/Барон | 69 Fair |
1980 | Little Tragedies | Actor | Сальери \ старый барон | 58 Average |
1980 | Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears | Actor | Self | 64 Fair |
1980 | With You I Am Again... | Actor | voice | 59 Average |
1979 | Caesar and Cleopatra | Actor | Цезарь | N/A N/A |
1979 | The Barrier | Actor | Antoni Manev | 58 Average |
1979 | About a Puppy | Actor | The Puppy (voice) | 58 Average |
1979 | Bells of Autumn | Actor | 58 Average |
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1978 | Enemies | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1978 | Velvet Season | Actor | Police commissioner | N/A N/A |
1978 | The Steppe | Actor | 59 Average |
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1977 | The Legend of Till | Actor | Charles V | 58 Average |
1977 | On Thursday and Never Again | Actor | Ivan Modestovich, Sergey's stepfather | 58 Average |
1977 | I Am Flying to You as a Memory... | Actor | Voice acting | 59 Average |
1976 | The Story of the Communist | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
1976 | Fantasia | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1976 | The Princess and the Pea | Actor | King | 58 Average |
1976 | Trust | Actor | Nikolai Bobrikov | 58 Average |
1976 | The Days of Surgeon Mishkin | Actor | 58 Average |
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1976 | The Cherry Orchard | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1975 | Anna and Commander | Actor | Dramatist | 59 Average |
1975 | They Fought for Their Motherland | Actor | surgeon | 60 Fair |
1975 | Daughters-Mothers | Actor | Vadim Antonovich Vasilyev | 58 Average |
1975 | Mirror | Actor | Narrator - The Author's Words (voice) | 72 Good |
1975 | Choice of Purpose | Actor | Roosevelt | 58 Average |
1974 | Romance for Lovers | Actor | Trumpeter | 58 Average |
1974 | Teens in the Universe | Actor | И. О. О. | 59 Average |
1974 | Moscow-Cassiopeia | Actor | И. О. О. | 59 Average |
1974 | Fulfillment of Desires | Actor | 59 Average |
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1974 | The Heron and the Crane | Actor | Narrator (Voice) | 59 Average |
1972 | Ночь на размышления | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1972 | Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram | Actor | Passazhir tramvaya | 59 Average |
1972 | Taming of the Fire | Actor | Tsiolkovski | 58 Average |
1970 | Uncle Vanya | Actor | Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky | 59 Average |
1970 | Crime and Punishment | Actor | Porfiry Petrovitch | 59 Average |
1970 | Tchaikovsky | Actor | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky) | 58 Average |
1970 | Золото | Actor | 59 Average |
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1969 | The Living Corpse | Actor | Ivan Petrovich the genius | 58 Average |
1969 | First Love | Actor | Father | N/A N/A |
1968 | Degree of Risk | Actor | Саша | 58 Average |
1968 | Evgeniy Urbanskiy | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
1966 | The Little Prince | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 58 Average |
1966 | On the Same Planet | Actor | 59 Average |
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1966 | First Visitor | Actor | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | 59 Average |
1966 | Last Month of Autumn | Actor | 58 Average |
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1966 | Beware of the Car! | Actor | Yury Detochkin | 62 Fair |
1964 | Hamlet | Actor | Hamlet | 60 Fair |
1963 | Зима тревоги нашей | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1962 | Mozart and Salieri | Actor | Mozart | N/A N/A |
1962 | Nine Days of One Year | Actor | Ilya Kulikov | 59 Average |
1961 | A Leap Year | Actor | Gennadiy Kupriyanov | N/A N/A |
1961 | Until Next Spring | Actor | Aleksei | N/A N/A |
1960 | Ребята с Канонерского | Actor | Михаил (voice) | 59 Average |
1960 | Letter Never Sent | Actor | Konstantin Sabinin | 61 Fair |
1958 | The Night Guest | Actor | 59 Average |
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1957 | Next to us | Actor | Andrey Korolev | 58 Average |
1957 | Shtorm | Actor | Muromtsev | N/A N/A |
1957 | Дорогой бессмертия | Actor | Юлиус Фучик | N/A N/A |
1956 | Soldiers | Actor | Farber | 58 Average |
1956 | Murder on Dante Street | Actor | Molodoy fashist | 58 Average |
1956 | Как он лгал её мужу | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Vozmozhnaya vstrecha | Actor | Johann Sebastian Bach | N/A N/A |
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Mozart and Salieri | Actor | Mozart | N/A N/A |
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Writing |
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1985 | Children of the Sun | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |