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Innokenty Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky (russian: Иннокентий Михайлович Смоктуновский; born ''Smoktunovich'', 28 March 19253 August 1994) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named a
His career in film was launched by Mikhail Romm's movie ''Nine Days in One Year'' (1962). In 1964, he was cast in the role of Hamlet in Grigori Kozintsev's celebrated Hamlet (1964 film), screen version of William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's play, which won him praise from Laurence Olivier as well as the Lenin Prize. Many English critics even ranked the ''Hamlet'' of Smoktunovsky above the one played by Olivier, at a time when Olivier's was still considered definitive. Smoktunovsky created an integral heroic portrait, which blended together what seemed incompatible before: manly simplicity and exquisite aristocratism, kindness and caustic sarcasm, a derisive mindset and self-sacrifice.
Smoktunovsky became known to wider audiences as Yuri Detochkin in Eldar Ryazanov's detective satire ''Beware of the Car'' (1966), which revealed the actor's outstanding comic gifts. Later, he played Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in ''Tchaikovsky (film), Tchaikovsky'' (1969), Uncle Vanya in Andrei Konchalovsky's Uncle Vanya (1970 film), screen version of Chekhov's play (1970), the Narrator in Andrei Tarkovsky's ''Mirror (film), Mirror'' (1975), an old man in Anatoly Efros's ''On Thursday and Never Again'' (1977), and Antonio Salieri, Salieri in Mikhail Schweitzer's ''Little Tragedies (1979 film), Little Tragedies'' (1979) based on Alexander Pushkin's plays.
In 1990, Smoktunovsky won the Nika Award in the category Best Actor. He died on 3 August 1994, at a sanatorium, aged 69. The minor planet List of minor planets: 4001–5000#901, 4926 Smoktunovskij was named after him.
Smoktunovsky's biography in ''The New York Times''.
Biography of Innokenty Smoktunovsky
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People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR ( rus, Народный артист СССР, Narodny artist SSSR), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union.
Nomenclature and significan ...
in 1974 and a Hero of Socialist Labour
The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...
in 1990.
Early life
Smoktunovsky was born in a Siberian village in a peasant family ofBelarusian
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* Byelor ...
ethnicity.Dubrovsky, V. Ya. (2002) ''Иннокентий Смоктуновский. Жизнь и роли''. B. M. Poyurovsky (ed.), Moscow: Iskusstvo. . It was once rumored that he came from a Polish family, even nobility, but the actor himself denied these theories by stating his family was Belarusian
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and not of nobility. He served in the Red Army during World War II and fought in Kursk
Kursk ( rus, Курск, p=ˈkursk) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German stru ...
, Dnipro and Kyiv battles. In 1946, he joined a theatre in Krasnoyarsk, later moving to Moscow. In 1957, he was invited by Georgy Tovstonogov
Georgy Aleksandrovich Tovstonogov (russian: Георгий Александрович Товстоногов, – 23 May 1989) was a Russian-Georgian theatre director.
He was the leader of the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater which was renamed after ...
to join the Bolshoi Drama Theatre
Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater (russian: Большой драматический театр имени Г. А. Товстоногова; literally ''Tovstonogov Great Drama Theater''), formerly known as Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater (russian: ...
of Leningrad, where he stunned the public with his dramatic interpretation of Prince Myshkin in Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (, ; rus, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj, a=ru-Dostoevsky.ogg, links=yes; 11 November 18219 ...
's '' The Idiot''. One of his best roles was the title role in Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's ''Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich'' (Maly Theatre (Moscow), Maly Theatre, 1973).
Film career
His career in film was launched by Mikhail Romm's movie ''Nine Days in One Year'' (1962). In 1964, he was cast in the role of Hamlet in Grigori Kozintsev's celebrated Hamlet (1964 film), screen version of William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's play, which won him praise from Laurence Olivier as well as the Lenin Prize. Many English critics even ranked the ''Hamlet'' of Smoktunovsky above the one played by Olivier, at a time when Olivier's was still considered definitive. Smoktunovsky created an integral heroic portrait, which blended together what seemed incompatible before: manly simplicity and exquisite aristocratism, kindness and caustic sarcasm, a derisive mindset and self-sacrifice.
Smoktunovsky became known to wider audiences as Yuri Detochkin in Eldar Ryazanov's detective satire ''Beware of the Car'' (1966), which revealed the actor's outstanding comic gifts. Later, he played Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in ''Tchaikovsky (film), Tchaikovsky'' (1969), Uncle Vanya in Andrei Konchalovsky's Uncle Vanya (1970 film), screen version of Chekhov's play (1970), the Narrator in Andrei Tarkovsky's ''Mirror (film), Mirror'' (1975), an old man in Anatoly Efros's ''On Thursday and Never Again'' (1977), and Antonio Salieri, Salieri in Mikhail Schweitzer's ''Little Tragedies (1979 film), Little Tragedies'' (1979) based on Alexander Pushkin's plays.
In 1990, Smoktunovsky won the Nika Award in the category Best Actor. He died on 3 August 1994, at a sanatorium, aged 69. The minor planet List of minor planets: 4001–5000#901, 4926 Smoktunovskij was named after him.
Filmography
* ''Murder on Dante Street'' (1956) as Young fascist * ''Soldiers (film), Soldiers'' (1956) as Lieutenant Farber * ''Close to Us'' (1958) as Andrei * ''Letter Never Sent (film), Letter Never Sent'' (1960) as Konstantin Fyodorovich Sabinin * ''Until Next Spring'' (1960) as Aleksei Nikolayevich Ruchyev * ''After the Wedding (1962 film), After the Wedding'' (1962) as Narrator's voice * ''Nine Days in One Year'' (1962) as Ilya Kulikov * ''Mozart and Salieri (1962 film), Mozart and Salieri'' (1962) as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart * ''Hamlet (1964 film), Hamlet'' (1964) as Prince Hamlet * ''On the Same Planet'' (1965) as Vladimir Lenin * ''Beware of the Car'' (1966) as Yuri Detochkin * ''Degree of Risk'' (1968) as Aleksandr Kirillov * ''The Living Corpse (1968 film), The Living Corpse'' (1968) as Ivan Petrovich * ''Crime and Punishment (1970 film), Crime and Punishment'' (1969) as Porfiry Petrovich * ''Tchaikovsky (film), Tchaikovsky'' (1970) as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky * ''Uncle Vanya (1970 film), Uncle Vanya'' (1970) as Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky ("Uncle Vanya") * ''Ilf and Petrov Rode a Tram'' (1972) as Tram passenger * ''Taming of the Fire'' (1972) as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky * ''Moscow-Cassiopeia'' (1973) as I.O.O. * ''The Heron and the Crane'' (1974) as Narrator's voice * ''Daughters-Mothers'' (1974) as Vadim Antonovich Vasilyev * ''A Lover's Romance'' (1974) as Trumpeter * ''Teens in the Universe'' (1974) as I.O.O. * ''Take Aim'' (1974) as Franklin D. Roosevelt * ''Mirror (film), Mirror'' (1975) as adult Aleksei's voice * ''The Captivating Star of Happiness'' (1975) as Ivan Bogdanovich Zeidler * ''They Fought for Their Country'' (1975) as Surgeon * ''Twenty Days Without War'' (1976) as Vyacheslav's voice (played by Nikolai Grinko) * ''Trust (1976 film), Trust'' (1976) as Nikolay Bobrikov * ''The Princess on a Pea'' (1977) as King * ''The Steppe (film), The Steppe'' (1977) as Moisei Moiseyevich * ''On Thursday and Never Again'' (1977) as Ivan Modestovich * ''The Barrier (1979 film), The Barrier'' (1979) as Antony Manev * ''Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears'' (1979) as himself (cameo appearance) * ''Little Tragedies (1979 film), Little Tragedies'' (1979) as Antonio Salieri and Old Baron * ''The Queen of Spades (1982 film), The Queen of Spades'' (1982) as Chekalinsky * ''Dead Souls (1984 film), Dead Souls'' (1984) as Plyushkin * ''Primary Russia'' (1985) as Justinian I, Emperor Justinian I * ''The Last Road'' (1986) as Jacob van Heeckeren tot Enghuizen * ''The Twentieth Century Approaches'' (1986) as Lord Thomas Bellinger * ''Dark Eyes (1987 film), Dark Eyes'' (1987) as Modest Petrovich * ''Gardes-Marines, Ahead!'' (1987) as André-Hercule de Fleury * ''First Encounter - Last Encounter'' (1987) as Counterintelligence colonel * ''Mother (1990 film), Mother'' (1989) as Governor * ''A Trap for Lonely Man'' (1990) as Merlouche the artist * ''Genius (1991 film), Genius'' (1991) as Mafia leader Gilya * ''Dandelion Wine (film), Dandelion Wine'' (1997) as Colonel Freeley (voiced by Sergey Bezrukov; released posthumously)References
External links
*Smoktunovsky's biography in ''The New York Times''.
Biography of Innokenty Smoktunovsky
{{DEFAULTSORT:Smoktunovsky, Innokenty 1925 births 1994 deaths 20th-century Russian male actors People from Tomsk Governorate Heroes of Socialist Labour Honored Artists of the RSFSR People's Artists of the RSFSR People's Artists of the USSR Lenin Prize winners Recipients of the Medal "For Courage" (Russia) Recipients of the Nika Award Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR Audiobook narrators Male Shakespearean actors Russian people of Belarusian descent Russian male film actors Russian male stage actors Russian male television actors Russian male voice actors Soviet male film actors Soviet male stage actors Soviet male television actors Soviet male voice actors Soviet military personnel of World War II Soviet partisans Spoken word artists Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery