Smoktunovsky as Hamlet in the 1964 movie.

Innokentiy Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky (Russian: Инноке́нтий Миха́йлович Смоктуно́вский, b. March 28, 1925, d.August 3, 1994) was a Russian actor acclaimed as the "king of Soviet actors". He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1974 and the Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990. Image File history File links Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Hamlet in Grigori Kozintsevs screen version of the play (1966). ... Image File history File links Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Hamlet in Grigori Kozintsevs screen version of the play (1966). ... March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in leap years). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Maria Yermolova, first Peoples Artist of the Republic (1920). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Hero of Socialist Labor medal. ... This article is about the year. ...

Smoktunovsky was born in a Siberian village and served in the Red Army during World War II. In 1946, he joined a theatre in Krasnoyarsk, later moving to Moscow. In 1957, he was invited by Georgi Tovstonogov to join the Bolshoi Drama Theatre of Leningrad, where he stunned the public with his dramatic interpretation of Prince Myshkin in Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. His career in film was launched by Mikhail Romm's movie Nine Days of One Year (1962). In 1964, he was cast in the role of Hamlet in the celebrated Grigori Kozintsev's screen version of Shakespeare's play, which won him a praise from Laurence Olivier and the Lenin Prize. Smoktunovsky became known to wider audiences as Yuri Detochkin in Eldar Ryazanov's mock detective Beware of the Car (1966). Later, he played Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Tchaikovsky (1969), Uncle Vanya in Andrei Konchalovsky's screen version of Chekhov's play (1970), the Narrator in Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror (1975), an old man in Anatoly Efros's On Thursday and Never Again (1977), and Salieri in Mikhail Schwejzer's Little Tragedies (1980) based on Alexander Pushkin's plays. Siberian Federal District (darker red) and the broadest definition of Siberia (red) Udachnaya pipe Siberia (Russian: , Sibir; Tatar: ) is a vast region of Russia constituting almost all of Northern Asia. ... The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (in Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya), the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ... 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External link

• Smoktunovsky's biography in The New York Times.