Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 28, 1925
Place of Birth
USSR
Also Known As
- Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
- Иннокентий Смоктуновский
- Innokenti Michailowitsch Smoktunowski
- Innokenti Smoktounovski
- И. Смоктуновский
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
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 - Movies
Mirror
as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
Letter Never Sent
as Konstantin Sabinin
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
as self
They Fought for Their Motherland
as surgeon
Mother
Discovering Hamlet
as Hamlet (archive footage)
The Legend of Till
as Charles V
Teens in the Universe
as И. О. О.
Big Boy
Beware of the Car!
as Юрий Деточкин
Known For - TV Shows
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
as Prime Minister Lord Thomas Ballinger
Legends of Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Naval Cadets, Charge!
as kardinal Fleri
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
as Lord Thomas Bellinger - Prime Minister
Little Tragedies
Dead Souls
as Плюшкин
The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
Dandelion Wine
