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Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1925-03-28

Day of Death

1994-08-03

Place of Birth

USSR

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.

Filmography (124)

⭐ 7.5 Role: Hamlet (archive footage)

Discovering Hamlet

2011
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⭐ 0 Role: Self

Георгий Жжёнов. Агент надежды

2009
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⭐ 0 Role: Self (archive footage)

Георгий Вицин. Отшельник

2008
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⭐ 10.0 Role: Mikołaj

Podróż na wschód

1997
⭐ 6.6 Role: Unknown

White Feast

1996
⭐ 4.7 Role: Unknown

Enchanted

1994
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⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Initiation Into Love

1994
⭐ 4.5 Role: Investigator

The Murderer

1993
⭐ 7.5 Role: Unknown

I want to go to America

1993
⭐ 0 Role: Narrator

Traveling With a Double

1992
⭐ 4.0 Role: Unknown

Gold

1992
⭐ 0 Role: Johann Sebastian Bach

Возможная встреча

1992
⭐ 7.0 Role: Ivan the Terrible

The Revelation of John the Foreprinter

1992
⭐ 0 Role: Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик

The Case

1991
⭐ 4.9 Role: Unknown

The Siege of Venice

1991