As per our current Database, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy has been died on 3 August, 1994 at Moscow, Russia.
When Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy die, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy was 69 years old.
| Popular As | Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 69 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
| Born | March 18, 1925 (Tatyanovka, Tomskaya guberniya, RSFSR, USSR [now Shegarskiy rayon, Tomskaya oblast, Russia]) |
| Birthday | March 18 |
| Town/City | Tatyanovka, Tomskaya guberniya, RSFSR, USSR [now Shegarskiy rayon, Tomskaya oblast, Russia] |
| Nationality | Russia] |
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy was born in the Year of the Ox. Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.
Innokenti Smoktunovsky (birth name Smoktunovich) was born in Siberian village of Tatianovka near Tomsk in 1925. There were some speculations that his ancestors were of Polish nobility or of Jewish ethnicity and that they were exiled to Siberia for participating in the January Uprising of 1863.
But, according to Smoktunovsky's own words, his ancestors were Belarusian peasants who were sent to Siberia after his grand-grandfather - a guard in the Bialowieza Forest - shot a wisent without permission.
His father was killed in WWII. Smoktunovsky was drafted in the Red Army during WWII and was seized by the Nazis as a POW. He was on the road to a concentration camp, but managed to escape from the Nazis.
He joined the partisans and served until the end of WWII. After the war he was under suspicion as a former POW and his career was limited to Siberia.He studied acting for one year at the drama-studio of the Krasnoyarsk Drama Theater (1946).
He found employment at the Norilsk Zapolyarny Drama Theater, where his friend and partner was Georgi Zhzhyonov, among other exiled actors. Both friends later starred in 'Beregis avtomobilya (1966)', directed by Eldar Ryazanov.
But his film career started with director Mikhail Romm in 'Ubiystvo na ulitse Dante (1956), and in 'Soldaty (1956)' with director 'Aleksandr Ivanov'.Smoktunovsky was praised by Laurence Olivier for the leading role in 'Hamlet (1964)', a B&W screen version directed by Grigoriy Kozintsev.
Leading roles in Tchaikovsky (1969), 'Uncle Vanya (1970)', were among the highlights in film career of this great Russian actor. He worked with Georgi Tovstonogov from 1957-72 on stage of the Bolshoi Drama Theater (BDT) in Leningrad.
He later moved to Moscow, where he worked at the Maly Theater and at the Moscow Art Theater (MKHAT). Smoktunovsky wrote an autobiographical book titled "They left me alive", in which he described his survival in Siberia, in WWII, and back again in Siberia, where he started his brilliant acting career.
