Innokenty Smoktunovsky is a well-known film and theater actor who has played many roles. His work was forever remembered by the audience. Biography Smoktunovsky contains a lot of interesting things.
Childhood, youth
Innokenty Mikhailovich was born in with. Tatyanovka (Tomsk region) March 28, 1925, his real name is Smoktunovich. The family lived poorly, went hungry, all in all they had five children. Then they moved to Krasnoyarsk. Father got a job as a loader, mother worked in a sausage factory.
Due to famine in the family in 1932, Innocent and his brother Vladimir were sent to live with their aunt. She had no children of her own. The boy studied poorly, often fought at school. Being a sixth grader, Kesha became interested in theater and enrolled in a drama circle, but failed to play a role on the stage, and did not stay in the circle.
Innocent often tried to get to the performances of the city theater, he even faked tickets. After school, he began to work as an extra in the theater, and began to study film projection. Then the war began, at first they called for his father, and then Innocent. He was captured in the war, managed to escape, he was hid by a family of peasants.
Post-war years
After the war, Innocent again got an extra in the theater, sometimes he was invited to play on stage. But he was in conflict with the director, the actor was shackled, spoke quietly. I had to leave work.
Innokenty moved to Norilsk, got a job in the theater, in the same period he took the name Smoktunovsky. The team supported the young actor, and he was able to reveal his talent. Smoktunovsky began to receive larger roles.
The northern climate had a bad effect on the actor’s body, and he moved to Makhachkala. Smoktunovsky began to work in the drama theater, but there were no interesting roles. Soon he went to live in Stalingrad. At that time, he attracted the attention of the press by his role in the play The Taming of the Shrew, then they began to trust him with more significant roles.
Soon Smoktunovsky became a famous person, however, a conflict with the director prevented his further career in Stalingrad. In 1955, the actor left for the capital. There he got a part-time job at the Theater. The Leninist Komsomol, in major metropolitan theaters did not take him.
Creative career
A lucky chance helped his future career - Smoktunovsky met the girl Shulamif, who brought him to the famous Ivan Pyryev. He arranged Innocent in the Theater Studio of the film actor. Another success was the role of Prince Myshkin in the play "The Idiot", played at the Bolshoi Theater. The actor became famous throughout the Soviet Union.
Smoktunovsky began to receive good roles in the BDT, then filmmakers noticed him. In 1960, the actor was fired due to being late for the start of the season. Innokenty Mikhailovich returned to the theater only in the 70s. In the 60s, Smoktunovsky began to work in the filming of films, played more than 100 roles. He also voiced cartoons. The actor died on August 3, 1994 as a result of a heart attack.
