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

Mirror
1975
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
1988
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
2000
Legends of Cinema
2016
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
1980
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
1988
Restricted Area
1988
Dark Eyes
1987
Naval Cadets, Charge!
1988
Dead Souls
1984
Little Tragedies
1980
Letter Never Sent
1960

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
135
Writing
2
2016
Legends of Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2011
Discovering Hamlet
as Hamlet (archive footage)
2008
Георгий Вицин. Отшельник
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Memories of Sherlock Holmes
as Prime Minister Lord Thomas Ballinger
1998
Dandelion Wine
1997
Podróż na wschód
as Mikołaj
1996
White Feast
1994
Enchanted
1994
Initiation Into Love
1993
The Murderer
as Investigator
1993
I want to go to America
1992
Genius
as Gilya «Prints» is the head of the mafia
1992
Gold
1992
The Revelation of John the Foreprinter
as Ivan the Terrible
1992
Возможная встреча
as Johann Sebastian Bach
1992
Traveling With a Double
as Narrator
1991
Death Line
as теневой мафиози Луковецкий
1991
The Siege of Venice
as Inquisitor
1991
The Case
as Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
1991
The Case of Sukhovo-Kobylin
as Петр Константинович Муромский
1990
A Trap for Lonely Man
as Wandering artist Paul Brisarr nicknamed Papa Merlush
1990
Ladies Tailor
as Isaak
1990
Mother
1990
Dina
1989
Heart Is Not a Stone
1988
Naval Cadets, Charge!
as 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
as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
1988
Naval Cadets, Charge!
as kardinal Fleri
1988
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
1988
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
as Lord Thomas Bellinger - Prime Minister
1988
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The twentieth century begins
1987
Dark Eyes
as Il Governarore di Sisoiev
1987
First Encounter - Last Encounter
as Member of counter-intelligence
1987
Without Sun
1987
Mysterious Heir
1987
Sherlock Holmes in the 20th Century
as Lord Bellinger - Prime Minister
1987
My Favorite Time
as Narrator (voice)
1987
The Idiot
as Narrator
1986
Hercules and Admetus
1986
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1986
Primary Russia
as Emperor Justinian
1986
The Last Road
1985
Children of the Sun
1985
My Sister Lucy
as (Narrator)
1985
Mikhail Romm. Confessions Of A Film Director
as Himself
1985
To Be Hamlet
as Self
1985
Children of the Sun
1984
Gray Ural
as Narrator
1984
Dead Souls
as Plushkin
1984
Dead Souls
as Плюшкин
1983
Road to Eternity
1983
Phenomenon
as Сан Саныч (врач-психиатр, взяточник)
1983
Two Under One Umbrella
as Тиль
1983
Late love
1983
Awakening
as генерал Гиппиус
1982
Big Boy
1982
The Queen of Spades
as Chekalinsky
1982
This Fantastic World 7
as капитан
1982
Theft
1982
Ivanov
1981
Born by the Storm
as Staryy graf
1981
Khalif the Stork
as Khalif / халиф
1981
Talking Hands of Travancore
as Narrator (voice)
1981
A Joke?!...
1980
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
as self
1980
Little Tragedies
as Сальери \ старый барон
1980
With You I Am Again...
as Narrator (voice)
1980
Little Tragedies
1979
Bells of Autumn
as Narrator (voice)
1979
The Barrier
as Antoni Manev
1979
About a Puppy
as The Puppy (voice)
1979
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Цезарь
1978
Velvet Season
as Police commissioner
1978
The Steppe
as Moisey Moiseevich
1978
Enemies
1977
On Thursday and Never Again
as Ivan Modestovich, Sergey's stepfather
1977
The Legend of Thyl
as Charles V
1977
I Am Flying to You as a Memory...
as Narrator (voice)
1977
The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
1976
Trust
as Nikolai Bobrikov
1976
The Days of Surgeon Mishkin
1976
The Princess and the Pea
as King
1976
The Cherry Orchard
1976
Fantasia
1976
The Story of the Communist
as Narrator (voice)
1976
My Heart Is in the Highlands
1976
At the Origins of Mankind
as Narrator
1975
Teens in the Universe
as И. О. О.
1975
Daughters-Mothers
as Vadim Antonovich Vasilyev
1975
They Fought for Their Motherland
as surgeon
1975
Anna and Commander
as Dramatist
1975
Mirror
as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
1975
Choice of Purpose
as Roosevelt
1974
Moscow-Cassiopeia
as И. О. О.
1974
Romance for Lovers
as Trumpeter
1974
Fulfillment of Desires
1974
The Heron and the Crane
as Narrator (Voice)
1972
A Night for Reflection
1972
Taming of the Fire
as Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy
1972
Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram
as Passazhir tramvaya
1971
Mozart and Salieri
as Mozart
1971
Little Tragedies
as Mozart
1971
In Memory of Dostoevsky
as читает текст
1970
Crime and Punishment
as Porfiry Petrovitch
1970
Tchaikovsky
as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1970
Uncle Vanya
as Ivan 'Uncle Vanya' Voinitsky
1970
Gold
1969
The Living Corpse
as Ivan Petrovich the genius
1969
First Love
as Father
1968
Degree of Risk
as Саша
1968
Evgeniy Urbanskiy
as Self
1966
Beware of the Car!
as Юрий Деточкин
1966
The Little Prince
as Narrator (voice)
1966
On the Same Planet
1966
Last Month of Autumn
1966
First Visitor
as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
1964
Hamlet
as Hamlet
1963
The Winter of Our Discontent
as Ethan Allen Hawley
1962
Nine Days of One Year
as Ilya Kulikov
1962
Mozart and Salieri
as Mozart
1961
A Leap Year
as Gennadiy Kupriyanov
1961
Until Next Spring
as Aleksei
1960
Letter Never Sent
as Konstantin Sabinin
1958
The Night Guest
1958
First Day
as Antonov-Ovseyenko
1957
On the Road of Immortality
as Юлиус Фучик
1957
Next to Us
as Andrey Korolev
1957
Storm
as Muromtsev
1956
How He Lied to Her Husband
1956
Soldiers
as Farber
1956
Murder on Dante Street
as Molodoy fashist