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.
The roles that explain the career.
53 credits across 3 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Dandelion Wine | TV | |
| 1994 | Enchanted | Film | |
| 1992 | Genius | Gilya «Prints» is the head of the mafia | Film |
| 1992 | Gold | Film | |
| 1991 | The Case of Sukhovo-Kobylin | Петр Константинович Муромский | TV |
| 1991 | The Siege of Venice | Inquisitor | Film |
| 1990 | Mother | Film | |
| 1990 | A Trap for Lonely Man | Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush | Film |
| 1988 | Black Corridor | Film | |
| 1988 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Twentieth Century Begins - Part 1 | Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister | Film |
| 1988 | Naval Cadets, Charge! | kardinal Fleri | Film |
| 1987 | Dark Eyes | Il Governarore di Sisoiev | Film |
| 1987 | Without Sun | Film | |
| 1987 | First Encounter - Last Encounter | Member of counter-intelligence | Film |
| 1986 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Film | |
| 1985 | Children of the Sun | TV | |
| 1985 | My Sister Lucy | (Narrator) | Film |
| 1985 | Children of the Sun | Writer | TV |
| 1984 | Dead Souls | Плюшкин | TV |
| 1982 | The Queen of Spades | Chekalinsky | Film |
| 1981 | Khalif the Stork | Khalif / халиф | Film |
| 1980 | Little Tragedies | Сальери \ старый барон | Film |
| 1980 | Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears | self | Film |
| 1979 | Bells of Autumn | Narrator (voice) | Film |
| 1978 | Enemies | Film | |
| 1978 | The Steppe | Moisey Moiseevich | Film |
| 1977 | The Days of Surgeon Mishkin | TV | |
| 1977 | The Legend of Till | Charles V | Film |
| 1976 | The Princess and the Pea | King | Film |
| 1976 | The Days of Surgeon Mishkin | Film | |
| 1976 | The Story of the Communist | Narrator (voice) | Film |
| 1976 | The Cherry Orchard | Film | |
| 1975 | Teens in the Universe | И. О. О. | Film |
| 1975 | Daughters-Mothers | Vadim Antonovich Vasilyev | Film |
| 1975 | They Fought for Their Motherland | surgeon | Film |
| 1975 | Mirror | Narrator - The Author's Words (voice) | Film |
| 1974 | Moscow-Cassiopeia | И. О. О. | Film |
| 1974 | The Heron and the Crane | Narrator (Voice) | Film |
| 1974 | Romance for Lovers | Trumpeter | Film |
| 1972 | Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram | Passazhir tramvaya | Film |
| 1972 | Taming of the Fire | Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy | Film |
| 1970 | Tchaikovsky | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chaikovsky) | Film |
| 1970 | Crime and Punishment | Porfiry Petrovitch | Film |
| 1970 | Uncle Vanya | Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky | Film |
| 1969 | The Living Corpse | Ivan Petrovich the genius | Film |
| 1969 | First Love | Father | Film |
| 1968 | Evgeniy Urbanskiy | Self | Film |
| 1968 | Degree of Risk | Саша | Film |
| 1966 | Beware of the Car! | Юрий Деточкин | Film |
| 1962 | Nine Days of One Year | Ilya Kulikov | Film |
| 1961 | Until Next Spring | Aleksei | Film |
| 1960 | Letter Never Sent | Konstantin Sabinin | Film |
| 1956 | Soldiers | Farber | Film |
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