Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
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.
As actor 133
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
1980
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
1980
Mirror
1975
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
2000
Legends of Cinema
2016
Naval Cadets, Charge!
1988
They Fought for Their Motherland
1975
Tchaikovsky
1970
Little Tragedies
1980
Letter Never Sent
1960
Dead Souls
1984
The Case of Sukhovo-Kobylin
1991
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
1988
Romance for Lovers
1974
Dark Eyes
1987
The Legend of Thyl
1977
Moscow-Cassiopeia
1974
Teens in the Universe
1975
Hamlet
1964
Restricted Area
1988
The Heron and the Crane
1974
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
1987
Born by the Storm
1981
Dandelion Wine
1998
Gold
1970
Late love
1983
The Queen of Spades
1982
Beware of the Car!
1966
Crime and Punishment
1970
Children of the Sun
1985
Uncle Vanya
1970
Dead Souls
1984
Nine Days of One Year
1962
Choice of Purpose
1975
Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram
1972
To Be Hamlet
1985
Возможная встреча
1992
Primary Russia
1986
Khalif the Stork
1981
Mother
1990
Enchanted
1994
Bells of Autumn
1979
Discovering Hamlet
2011
With You I Am Again...
1980
How He Lied to Her Husband
1956
The Princess and the Pea
1976
First Encounter - Last Encounter
1987
Dina
1990
Next to Us
1957
Taming of the Fire
1972
Genius
1992
The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
1977
Phenomenon
1983
Trust
1976
The Little Prince
1966
Last Month of Autumn
1966
The Idiot
1987
The Living Corpse
1969
The Siege of Venice
1991
Enemies
1978
Velvet Season
1978
The Case
1991
A Leap Year
1961
Heart Is Not a Stone
1989
The Steppe
1978
My Sister Lucy
1985
Naval Cadets, Charge!
1988
Mysterious Heir
1987
First Love
1969
A Trap for Lonely Man
1990
I want to go to America
1993
This Fantastic World 7
1982
At the End of the Night
1988
Theft
1982
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1
1988
Caesar and Cleopatra
1979
The Last Road
1986
Daughters-Mothers
1975
On the Same Planet
1966
The Cherry Orchard
1976
White Feast
1996
The Winter of Our Discontent
1963
Until Next Spring
1961
Anna and Commander
1975
Big Boy
1982
Degree of Risk
1968
Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director
1985
Two Under One Umbrella
1983
Георгий Вицин. Отшельник
2008
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1986
Black Corridor
1988
Evgeniy Urbanskiy
1968
The Barrier
1979
Awakening
1983
Murder on Dante Street
1956
Children of the Sun
1985
Road to Eternity
1983
I Am Flying to You as a Memory...
1977
The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
1976
About a Puppy
1979
Storm
1957
A Joke?!...
1981
The Murderer
1993
First Visitor
1966
Death Line
1991
Mozart and Salieri
1971
Talking Hands of Travancore
1981
Hercules and Admetus
1986
My Favorite Time
1987
On Thursday and Never Again
1977
Gold
1992
The Night Guest
1958
Little Tragedies
1971
Soldiers
1956
Without Sun
1987
Traveling With a Double
1992
The Revelation of John the Foreprinter
1992
First Day
1958
Ivanov
1982
Mozart and Salieri
1962
The Cabal of Hypocrites
1988
In Memory of Dostoevsky
1971
Fulfillment of Desires
1974
On the Road of Immortality
1957
Fantasia
1976
My Heart Is in the Highlands
1976
Ladies Tailor
1990
A Night for Reflection
1972
Initiation Into Love
1994
Podróż na wschód
1997
The Story of the Communist
1976
Gray Ural
1984
At the Origins of Mankind
1976