Igor Borisovich Dmitriev (May 29, 1927 – January 26, 2008) was a Russia

Russia

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n film and theater actor who specialized in playing aristocratic characters in costume productions (e.g., Rosencrantz

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. They are courtiers who are set by the king to spy on Hamlet, using their claimed friendship with him to gain his confidence. The characters were revived in W. S...

 in Grigori Kozintsev

Grigori Kozintsev

Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev was a Jewish Ukrainian, Soviet Russian theatre and film director. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964.He studied in the Imperial Academy of Arts...

's Hamlet

Hamlet (1964 film)

Hamlet is a 1964 film adaptation in Russian of William Shakespeare's play of the same title, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak. It was directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Iosif Shapiro, and stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet.-Background:...

).

Igor Dmitriev was born in Leningrad

Saint Petersburg

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 in the family of Boris Petrovich Dmitriev, who was a professional yacht

Yacht

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sman and his wife Elena Tauber, a ballerina. In 1948 he complete the Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre

Moscow Art Theatre

The Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow that the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, founded in 1898. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas...

 and became in 1949 an actor of the Vera Komissarzhevskaya

Vera Komissarzhevskaya

Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya was the most celebrated Russian actress at the turn of the twentieth century.Vera Komissarzhevskaya was the daughter of Fyodor Komissarzhevsky, a leading tenor of the Mariinsky Theatre, and sister of Theodore Komisarjevsky, a famous theatrical director...

 Theater of Drama in Leningrad. From 1967 to 1984 he served at Lenfilm

Lenfilm

Kinostudiya "Lenfilm" is a production unit of the Russian film industry, with its own film studio, located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, formerly Leningrad, R.S.F.S.R. Today OAO "Kinostudiya Lenfilm" is a corporation with its stakes shared between private owners, and several private film studios,...

. From 1984 to present he played in the Nikolay Akimov

Nikolay Akimov

Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov was an experimental theatre director and scenic designer noted for his work with the Leningrad Comedy Theatre. His most notorious production was the cynical version of Hamlet , with Ophelia as a drunken prostitute and the king's ghost as a clever mystification arranged by...

 Theated of Comedy. Dmitriev worked with Georgi Tovstonogov, Sergei Gerasimov, Yan Frid. He acted in more than 120 films, not only in Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, but also in Hungary

Hungary

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, Poland

Poland

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, GDR, U.S.

United States

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, Morocco

Morocco

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 and Algeria

Algeria

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.

He became People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1988. In 2000 he played the benefit performance

Benefit performance

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 in the play of George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...

 and Jerome Kilty

Jerome Kilty

Jerome Kilty is an American actor and playwright. He wrote Dear Liar: A Comedy of Letters, a play that had a successful run in New York, which was based on the correspondence of famed playwright George Bernard Shaw and actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell...

 Dear liar: A Comedy of Letters. He also worked and as a radio narrator, being one of the first actors to do so, he recited the novels of Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...

, Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of...

, Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents....

, Émile Zola

Émile Zola

Émile François Zola was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism...

, Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...

 and many others.

Filmography

(Incomplete)

• Она вас любит (1956)
• And Quiet Flows the Don
  And Quiet Flows the Don (1958 film)
  And Quiet Flows the Don is a three-part epic 1958 Soviet film directed by Sergei Gerasimov based on the novel of the same title by Mikhail Sholokhov. The first two parts of the film were released in October 1957 and the final third part in 1958...
  
   (1957–1958)
• В дни Октября (1958)
• Под стук колес (1958)
• Поднятая целина(1960)
• Черная чайка (1963)
• Kain XVIII
  Kain XVIII
  Kain XVIII is a 1963 film from the Soviet Union, adapted from Evgeny Shvarts' tale Two friends. The Soviet film industry reported that 21.7 million spectators saw the film.-Plot:...
  
   (Каин XVIII, 1963)
• Hamlet
  Hamlet (1964 film)
  Hamlet is a 1964 film adaptation in Russian of William Shakespeare's play of the same title, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak. It was directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Iosif Shapiro, and stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet.-Background:...
  
   (Гамлет, 1964)
• Speckle (Зайчик, 1965)
• Green coach (Зеленая карета, 1967)
• Operation "Trust" (Операция "Трест", 1967)
• Nikolay Bauman (1967)
• Пароль не нужен (1967)
• Ошибка Оноре де Бальзака (1968)
• Старая, старая сказка (1968)
• Старый дом (1969)
• Барышня-крестьянка (1970)
• Любовь Яровая (1970)
• Один из нас (1970)
• Узники Бомона (1970)
• "Franz Liszt. Dreams of love
  Franz Liszt. Dreams of love
  Szerelmi álmok – Liszt is a Hungarian-Soviet epic musical/drama produced and directed by Márton Keleti, based on the biography of Austrian-Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt.While the movie was criticized for some of its historical inaccuracies,...
  
  " ,
• Прощание с Петербургом (1971)
• "Dauria
  Dauria (1971 film)
  Dauria is an Soviet 1971 historical action/drama set in Siberia, Russia. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Konstantin Sedykh and directed by Viktor Tregubovich....
  
  " , (1971)
• Последние дни Помпеи (1972)
• Звезда пленительного счастья (1975)
• Строговы (1975-1976)
• Доверие (1976)
• Как Иванушка-дурачок за чудом ходил (1976)
• Туфли с золотыми пряжками (1976)
• Золотая мина (1977)
• Обратная связь (1977)
• Собака на сене (1977)
• Младший научный сотрудник (1978)
• По улице комод водили... (1978)
• Ярославна, королева Франции (1978)
• Уходя - уходи (1978)
• Голубой карбункул (1979)
• Летучая мышь (1979)
• Приключения принца Флоризеля (1979)
• Путешествие в другой город (1979)
• Стакан воды (1979)
• Шерлок Холмс и доктор Ватсон (1979)
• Идеальный муж (1980)
• Копилка (1980)
• Мой папа идеалист (1980)
• Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона (1980)
• Только в мюзик-холле (1980)
• Крепыш (1981)
• Проданный смех (1981)
• Сильва (1981)
• Без видимых причин (1982)
• Владивосток, год 1918 (1982)
• Покровские ворота (1982)
• Безумный день инженера Баркасова (1983)
• Магистраль (1983)
• У опасной черты (1983)
• Anna Pavlova (Анна Павлова ,1983-1986)
• Выигрыш одинокого коммерсанта (1984)
• Сезон чудес (1985)
• Русь изначальная (1986)
• Счастлив, кто любил... (1986)
• Белое проклятье (1987)
• Сказка про влюбленного маляра (1987)
• Стукач ("Ничей") (1988)
• Штаны (1988)
• Цыганский барон (1988)
• А был ли Каротин? (1989)
• Дон Сезар де Базан (1989)
• Светлая личность (1989)
• Cyrano de Bergerac
  Cyrano de Bergerac
  Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duelist. He is now best remembered for the works of fiction which have been woven, often very loosely, around his life story, most notably the 1897 play by Edmond Rostand...
  
   (Сирано де Бержерак ,1989)
• Когда святые маршируют (1990)
• Фуфель (1990)
• И черт с нами! (1991)
• Исповедь содержанки (1992)
• Мушкетеры двадцать лет спустя (1992)
• Прекрасная незнакомка (1992)
• Tartuffe
  Tartuffe
  Tartuffe is a comedy by Molière. It is one of his most famous plays.-History:Molière wrote Tartuffe in 1664...
  
  (Тартюф, 1992)
• Алмазы шаха ("Роковые бриллианты") (1992)
• Сыскное бюро "Феликс" (1993)
• Веселенькая поездка (1994)
• Колесо любви (1994)
• На кого бог пошлет (1994)
• Русский транзит (1994)
• Великий Туран (из цикла "Зов предков", 1-й фильм дилогии) (1995)
• Возвращение броненосца (1996)
• "Улицы разбитых фонарей II (1999). Эпизод "Трубка фирмы Dunhill"

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