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.
Awards & recognition
- Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class · 1985
- Silver Shell — Best Actor · 1970
- Lenin Prize · 1965
- Medal "For Courage" · 1945
- Medal "For Courage" · 1943
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- Badge "25 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"
- Guards unit
- Hero of Socialist Labour
- Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
- Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"
- Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Medal "Veteran of Labour"
- Merited Artist of the RSFSR
- Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
- People's Artist of the RSFSR
- People's Artist of the USSR
- sergeant
- Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR
Filmography5 titles
The Mirror
Watch Out for the Automobile
Letter Never Sent
Nine Days of One Year
Dark Eyes