
Igor Dmitriev
Acting
- Born:
- 1927-05-29
- Died:
- 2008-01-26
- Place of birth:
- Petrograd, RSFSR, USSR
Biography
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (12/10/1963). People's Artist of the RSFSR (08/15/1988). Academician of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia. Member of the English Club and the World Club of Petersburgers. The future actor participated in school amateur performances, studied in the pioneer song and dance ensemble of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers. He made his film debut at the age of 12 - the first role was a Polish high school student in V. Fainberg's film "The Voice of Taras". During the Great Patriotic War, together with his mother, he ended up in the city of Molotov (Perm), where they were evacuated along with the Mariinsky Theater and the choreographic school. In 1943 he entered the theater studio at the Perm Drama Theatre, after classes he stayed for performances, played in crowd scenes. In September 1944 he came to Moscow to enter the theater institute. He entered the V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko at the Moscow Art Theater, in the class of People's Artists of the USSR Pavel Vladimirovich Massalsky and Sergei Kapitonovich Blinnikov. In 1948 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School and was accepted into the troupe of the Leningrad Drama Theater, which now bears the name of Vera Fedorovna Komissarzhevskaya. After leaving the theater, he became an actor at the Lenfilm Film Actor Studio. The first significant film role was Yevgeny Listnitsky in the film Quiet Flows the Don (1957). In addition to the domestic actor, he worked a lot at film studios in Hungary, Poland, the GDR, the USA, Morocco, Algeria. Igor Dmitriev is the author of about 30 TV programs from the cycle "At Igor D..." on television in St. Petersburg. This cycle was awarded the Golden Horse Grand Prix at the Velvet Season international festival. In 1984, Igor Dmitriev was accepted into the troupe of the Leningrad Academic Comedy Theater named after N.P. Akimov, on the stage of which he made his debut in the role of Chinzanov in the play based on the play by Sergei Mikhalkov "Kings Can Do Everything". The return of the actor to the theater stage was a notable event in the cultural life of Leningrad in 1984. Collaborated with the St. Petersburg Theater "Russian Entreprise" named after Andrei Mironov and played in the play "Talents and Admirers" at the Bolshoi Drama Theater named after G.A. Tovstonogov. Igor Dmitriev revived the genre of melody and, having managed to achieve a true harmony of sound and word, was the only Russian actor who mastered this art. For the anniversary of the actor, the Rossiya TV channel shot a documentary film about the life and work of Igor Dmitriev "People's Marquis of the Soviet Union" (2007).
Known For
Filmography

Far from Sunset Boulevard

Signs of Love

The Golden Calf

Kikoriki

The Bench

Poor Nastya

Give Me the Moonlight

The Romanovs: A Crowned Family

Memories of Sherlock Holmes

The Children of Captain Grant

Return of the "Battleship"

The Great Turan

The Wheel of Love

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Joy Ride

To Whom Will God Send

Beautiful Stranger

Goblin Sanctuary

Detective Bureau "Felix"

Musketeers Twenty Years Later

Shakh's Diamonds

Tartuffe

The Confession of a Kept Woman

Fufel

And to Hell with Us!

Drums of Fire

Was There Karotin?

When the Saints March

Pants

Cyrano de Bergerac

Bright Personality

Дон Сезар де Базан

The Watchmaker and the Chicken

Don Cesar de Bazan

Snitch

The Gypsy Baron

The Tale About the Enamored Painter

White Curse

Happy Birthday, or Incognito

Цирк приехал

Disc Jockey
A Happy Accident

Red Shoes

Primary Russia

Ivan Babushkin

The Hobbit: The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins

Wonder Season

Men Are Men

The Tales of the Old Wizard

The Lonely Businessman's Big Score

Makar - Pathfinder

Makar - Pathfinder

Return from Orbit

Fairies' Autumn Gift

The Scoundrel, or Running On the Spot

Fairy-Tales of an Old Magician

The Highway

Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlova
The Murderer Receives the Goncourt Prize

Crazy Day of Engineer Barkasov

Near the Dangerous Line

The Pokrovsky Gates

Behind the Blue Nights

For No Apparent Reason

Big Boy

Vladivostok, Year 1918

The Trustees

Silva

Sold Laughter

Only in the Music Hall

My Father Is an Idealist

The Adventures of Prince Florisel

An Ideal Husband

Journey to Another Town

Gnat

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Hunting the Tiger

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

At the End of Summer

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Bloody Inscription

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Acquaintance

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

The Blue Carbuncle

The Piggy Bank

Roads of Fire

The Bat

The Adventures of Prince Florisel

A Declaration of Love

Feedback

Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...
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Yaroslavna, Queen of France

The Dog in the Manger

Unfinished Conversation

Golden Mine

That Was in Kokand

How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder

The Blue Bird

Trust

Spring of the Twenty-Ninth

The Strogovs

For Better and for Worse

Eastward, Beyond the Ganges

Open Book
Who Was Nothing…

The Last Days of Pompeii

A Long Path on a Short Day

Where are you, Knights?

Proshchaniye s Peterburgom

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment

One of Us

Lyubov Yarovaya

Dreams of Love

The Old House

Honore de Balzac's Mistake

A Very Old Story

Intervention

Crazy Money

Prince Napoleon

Operation 'Trust'

The Last Days

No Password Necessary

Nikolay Bauman

The Green Carriage

Noah's Ark

Little Hare

Hamlet

Kyukhlya

Cain the XVIII-th

Black Gull

Fuse

Virgin Soil Upturned

Clattering Wheels

Quiet Flows the Don

She Loves You