Igor Dmitriev
Igor Borisovich Dmitriev was a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actor who specialized in playing aristocratic characters in costume productions.
Igor Dmitriev was born in Leningrad to parents Boris Petrovich Dmitriev, a professional yachtsman and Elena Tauber, a ballerina. In 1948 he graduated from the Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre and in 1949 became an actor of the Vera Komissarzhevskaya Theater of Drama in Leningrad. From 1967 to 1984 he worked at Lenfilm. In 1984 he started working at the Nikolay Akimov Theater of Comedy. Dmitriev worked with Georgi Tovstonogov, Sergei Gerasimov, Yan Frid. He acted in more than 120 films, not only in the Soviet Union, but also in Hungary, Poland, East Germany, the United States, Morocco and Algeria.
He became People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. In 2000 he played the benefit performance in the play of George Bernard Shaw and Jerome Kilty Dear Liar: A Comedy of Letters. He also worked as a radio narrator, being one of the first actors to do so, he recited the novels of Leo Tolstoy, Theodore Dreiser, Guy de Maupassant, Émile Zola, Anton Chekhov and many others.
Selected filmography
- Ivan Pavlov as studentShe Loves You as Anatoly PylnikovAnd Quiet Flows the Don as Evgeny ListnitskyIn the Days of October as Alexander BlokUnder the Knock of the Wheels as Vasily KovalskyVirgin Soil Upturned as LyatyevskyBlack Gull as woundedKain XVIII as GeneralHamlet as RosencrantzSpeckle as Igor BorisovichGreen Coach as Nikolai Osipovich DyurNikolay Bauman as Vasily KachalovNo Password Needed as lieutenant MordvinovAn Old, Old Tale as princeLyubov Yarovaya as ElysatovFranz Liszt. Dreams of love as prince Nikolay Petrovich Wittgenstein Dauria as esaul SolomonovGoya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment as Duke of AlbaFarewell to St. Petersburg as Grand Duke KonstantinThe Captivating Star of Happiness as Ludwig LebstelternTrust as Vladimir Bonch-BruyevichThe Blue Bird as Pleasure to Beloved HimselfGolden Mine as Dr. PodneixThe Dog in the Manger as Count FedericoA Glass of Water as Marquis de TorcyDie Fledermaus as Frank, director of the prisonSherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as Inspector GregsonThe Suicide Club, or the Adventures of a Titled Person as Colonel GeraldineThe Pokrovsky Gate as Gleb OrlovichMagistral '''' as Passender IgorReturn from Orbit as Kuznetsov's fellow traveler on the trainCrazy Day of Engineer Barkasov as KrutetskyAnna Pavlova as Léon BakstThe Hobbit as Gollum
- The Mountains are Smoking as Baron von SteinbergA Bright Personality as BernardovCyrano de Bergerac as MonfleryMusketeers Twenty Years After as François de Vendôme, Duc de BeaufortBeautiful Stranger as retired militaryTartuffe as CleanthesStreets of Broken Lights as directorGive Me Moonlight as Eduard Sorokin