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.
Born: March 28, 1925
Place of Birth: USSR
Known For
This Fantastic World 7
The main characters of this edition of the popular television almanac are the heroes of the fantastic stories of the Soviet writer O. Lukyanov “The Uncertainty Principle” and the American writer A. Porges “Valuable Commodity”. During a meeting with the inhabitants of other planets, earthlings encounter amazing phenomena...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
The fifth and final part of the cycle of Soviet television feature films, filmed by director Igor Maslennikov based on the stories of the English writer Arthur Conan Doyle about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. In the first part based on the works - "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Adventure of the Second Stain". In the second part based on the works - "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans", and "His Last Bow".
Gold
Mashenka, a young typist during WWII, flees her occupied town with her boss, the senior cashier of a bank,along with a sack of jewelry and gold they hope to deliver to the Red Army.
Dead Souls
Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to “dead souls” and use them as collateral to obtain a large loan. He comes to a small provincial town and begins to proposition the local landowners. These landowners are revealed to be so petty and avaricious that not even Chichikov’s amazing offer can be worked to his advantage on them. Some stall, some refuse for no obvious reasons, some promise and then renege, and others want “in on the deal.” In the end, Chichikov, having concluded that the landowners are a hopeless lot, leaves for other regions.
Big Boy
Follows the famous Oryol trotter, multiple champion of the beginning of the century. Then - in sharp battles on the tracks of hippodromes - the fate of domestic horse breeding was decided. The world of animals and people is shown through the perception of a horse named Big Boy.
Ladies Tailor
The last twenty-four hours in the lives of a Jewish tailor and his family just prior to their deportation and execution at Babi Yar.
Late love
According to the play of the same name A. N. Ostrovsky. About fidelity and cunning, about purity of human feelings and belief in true happiness…
Mirror
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
Naval Cadets, Charge!
Three naval cadets accidentally get possession of a secret diary that was stolen from Bestuzhev, a vice-chancellor of Russia. If this diary ever gets abroad, the consequences for the country would be grave. The cadets are trying to return the papers to their owner, but there are others who want to get the papers...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is a series of five films produced by Lenfilm for the Soviet Central Television, split into eleven episodes, starring Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Dr. Watson. They were directed by Igor Maslennikov and filmed in Russia (the then Soviet Union) between 1979 and 1986, and the series was one of the most successful in the history of Russian television.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Hamlet (archive footage)
as Prime Minister Lord Thomas Ballinger
as Investigator
as Narrator
as Johann Sebastian Bach
as Ivan the Terrible
as Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
as Гиля - главарь мафии «Принц»
as теневой мафиози Луковецкий
as Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
as Isaak
as kardinal Fleri
as Lord Thomas Bellinger - Prime Minister
as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
as kardinal Fleri
as Narrator
as Member of counter-intelligence
as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
as Il Governarore di Sisoiev
as Narrator (voice)
as Emperor Justinian
as Self
as (Narrator)
as Плюшкин
as Plushkin
as Narrator
as Тиль
as Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник)
as Chekalinsky
as капитан
as Staryy graf
as Narrator (voice)
as Khalif / халиф
as Сальери \ старый барон
as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
as Narrator (voice)
as Цезарь
as Antoni Manev
as The Puppy (voice)
as Police commissioner
as Charles V
as Narrator (voice)
as Ivan Modestovich, Sergey's stepfather
as King
as Nikolai Bobrikov
as Narrator
as Roosevelt
as Dramatist
as surgeon
as Vadim Antonovich Vasilyev
as И. О. О.
as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
as Trumpeter
as И. О. О.
as Narrator (Voice)
as Passazhir tramvaya
as Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy
as Mozart
as читает текст
as Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky
as Porfiry Petrovitch
as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)
as Ivan Petrovich the genius
as Father
as Саша
as Himself
as Narrator (voice)
as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
as Юрий Деточкин
as Hamlet
as Ethan Allen Hawley
as Mozart
as Ilya Kulikov
as Gennadiy Kupriyanov
as Aleksei
as Konstantin Sabinin
as Andrey Korolev
as Muromtsev
as Юлиус Фучик
as Farber
as Molodoy fashist