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

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister

Little Tragedies

Dandelion Wine

Dead Souls

Плюшкин

Beware of the Car!

Юрий Деточкин

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins

Lord Thomas Bellinger - Prime Minister

Mirror

Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

Self

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2011	Discovering Hamlet	Hamlet (archive footage)
1997	Podróż na wschód	Mikołaj
1996	White Feast
1994	Enchanted
1993	The Murderer	Investigator
1993	I want to go to America
1992	Gold
1992	The Revelation of John the Foreprinter	Ivan the Terrible
1992	Возможная встреча	Johann Sebastian Bach
1992	Traveling With a Double	Narrator
1991	Genius	Гиля - главарь мафии «Принц»
1991	Death Line	теневой мафиози Луковецкий
1991	The Siege of Venice
1991	The Case	Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
1990	A Trap for Lonely Man	Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
1990	Ladies Tailor	Isaak
1990	Mother
1990	Dina
1989	Heart Is Not a Stone
1988	Naval Cadets, Charge!	kardinal Fleri
1988	The Cabal of Hypocrites
1988	At the End of the Night
1988	Restricted Area
1988	Black Corridor
1988	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1	Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
1987	Dark Eyes	Il Governarore di Sisoiev
1987	First Encounter - Last Encounter	Member of counter-intelligence
1987	Without Sun
1987	Mysterious Heir
1987	Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century	Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
1987	My Favorite Time	Narrator (voice)
1986	Hercules and Admetus
1986	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1986	Primary Russia	Emperor Justinian
1986	The Last Road
1985	Children of the Sun
1985	My Sister Lucy	(Narrator)
1985	Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director	Himself
1985	To Be Hamlet	Self
1984	Gray Ural	Narrator
1984	Dead Souls	Plushkin
1983	Road to Eternity
1983	Phenomenon	Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник)
1983	Two Under One Umbrella	Тиль
1983	Late love
1982	Big Boy
1982	The Queen of Spades	Chekalinsky
1982	This Fantastic World 7	капитан
1982	Theft
1982	Ivanov
1981	Born by the Storm	Staryy graf
1981	Khalif the Stork	Khalif / халиф
1981	Talking Hands of Travancore	Narrator (voice)
1981	A Joke?!...
1980	Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears	Self
1980	Little Tragedies	Сальери \ старый барон
1980	With You I Am Again...	Narrator (voice)
1979	Bells of Autumn
1979	The Barrier	Antoni Manev
1979	About a Puppy	The Puppy (voice)
1979	Caesar and Cleopatra	Цезарь
1978	Velvet Season	Police commissioner
1978	The Steppe
1978	Enemies
1977	On Thursday and Never Again	Ivan Modestovich, Sergey's stepfather
1977	The Legend of Till	Charles V
1977	I Am Flying to You as a Memory...	Narrator (voice)
1976	Trust	Nikolai Bobrikov
1976	The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
1976	The Princess and the Pea	King
1976	The Cherry Orchard
1976	Fantasia
1976	The Story of the Communist	Narrator (voice)
1976	My Heart Is in the Highlands
1976	At the Origins of Mankind	Narrator
1975	Teens in the Universe	И. О. О.
1975	Daughters-Mothers	Vadim Antonovich Vasilyev
1975	They Fought for Their Motherland	surgeon
1975	Anna and Commander	Dramatist
1975	Mirror	Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
1975	Choice of Purpose	Roosevelt
1974	Moscow-Cassiopeia	И. О. О.
1974	Romance for Lovers	Trumpeter
1974	Fulfillment of Desires
1974	The Heron and the Crane	Narrator (Voice)
1972	A Night for Reflection
1972	Taming of the Fire	Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy
1972	Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram	Passazhir tramvaya
1971	Little Tragedies	Mozart
1970	Crime and Punishment	Porfiry Petrovitch
1970	Tchaikovsky	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky)
1970	Uncle Vanya	Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky
1970	Gold
1969	The Living Corpse	Ivan Petrovich the genius
1969	First Love	Father
1968	Degree of Risk	Саша
1968	Evgeniy Urbanskiy	Himself
1966	Beware of the Car!	Юрий Деточкин
1966	The Little Prince	Narrator (voice)
1966	On the Same Planet
1966	Last Month of Autumn
1966	First Visitor	Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
1964	Hamlet	Hamlet
1963	The Winter of Our Discontent	Ethan Allen Hawley
1962	Nine Days of One Year	Ilya Kulikov
1962	Mozart and Salieri	Mozart
1961	A Leap Year	Gennadiy Kupriyanov
1961	Until Next Spring	Aleksei
1960	Letter Never Sent	Konstantin Sabinin
1958	The Night Guest
1957	On the Road of Immorality	Юлиус Фучик
1957	Next to Us	Andrey Korolev
1957	Storm	Muromtsev
1956	How He Lied to Her Husband
1956	Soldiers	Farber
1956	Murder on Dante Street	Molodoy fashist
	Mozart and Salieri	Mozart

Year	TV Show	Role
2000	Memories of Sherlock Holmes	Prime Minister Lord Thomas Ballinger
1998	Dandelion Wine
1988	Naval Cadets, Charge!	kardinal Fleri
1988	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins	Lord Thomas Bellinger - Prime Minister
1984	Dead Souls	Плюшкин
1980	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson	Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
1980	Little Tragedies