Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Known for Acting
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
Mirror
1975
as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
They Fought for Their Motherland
1975
as surgeon
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
1980
as self
Letter Never Sent
1960
as Konstantin Sabinin
Big Boy
1982
The Legend of Till
1977
as Charles V
Dead Souls
1984
as Plushkin
Teens in the Universe
1975
as И. О. О.
Beware of the Car!
1966
as Юрий Деточкин
Dark Eyes
1987
as Il Governarore di Sisoiev
Crime and Punishment
1970
as Porfiry Petrovitch
Murder on Dante Street
1956
as Molodoy fashist
The Living Corpse
1969
as Ivan Petrovich the genius
Moscow-Cassiopeia
1974
as И. О. О.
Uncle Vanya
1970
as Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky
Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram
1972
as Passazhir tramvaya
Restricted Area
1988
A Trap for Lonely Man
1990
as Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
At the End of the Night
1988
Mother
1990