
Igor Dmitriev
Born May 29, 1927 · Petrograd, RSFSR, USSR
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).
Notable Appearances
Movies
TV Shows

Memories of Sherlock Holmes

Makar - Pathfinder

The Golden Calf

The Strogovs

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

Roads of Fire

Musketeers Twenty Years Later

Anna Pavlova

The Tales of the Old Wizard

Gnat

The Adventures of Prince Florisel

Дон Сезар де Базан

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The Blue Carbuncle

Was There Karotin?

Signs of Love

Red Shoes

A Very Old Story

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Bloody Inscription

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

Snitch

Shakh's Diamonds

Honore de Balzac's Mistake

The Children of Captain Grant

Vladivostok, Year 1918

Dreams of Love

Clattering Wheels

The Romanovs: A Crowned Family

Far from Sunset Boulevard

Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street...

Eastward, Beyond the Ganges

The Bench

Makar - Pathfinder

Sold Laughter

Disc Jockey

For No Apparent Reason

The Scoundrel, or Running On the Spot

Yaroslavna, Queen of France

Don Cesar de Bazan

The Green Carriage

The Lonely Businessman's Big Score

Цирк приехал

Operation 'Trust'

The Old House

The Adventures of Prince Florisel

Big Boy

The Trustees

Silva

She Loves You

Cyrano de Bergerac

The Bat

Noah's Ark

Fairy-Tales of an Old Magician

Near the Dangerous Line

Wonder Season

Trust

Happy Birthday, or Incognito

Fairies' Autumn Gift

The Confession of a Kept Woman

No Password Necessary

The Last Days of Pompeii

Cain the XVIII-th

Only in the Music Hall

Crazy Day of Engineer Barkasov

Crazy Money

Nikolay Bauman

Return of the "Battleship"

White Curse

Where are you, Knights?

And to Hell with Us!

The Highway

Black Gull

That Was in Kokand

The Last Days

Open Book

A Declaration of Love

Primary Russia

How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder

Proshchaniye s Peterburgom

Men Are Men

An Ideal Husband

The Tale About the Enamored Painter

Kyukhlya

Beautiful Stranger

The Dog in the Manger

Virgin Soil Upturned

Lyubov Yarovaya

To Whom Will God Send

Feedback

Behind the Blue Nights

Little Hare

Give Me the Moonlight

The Piggy Bank

The Great Turan

One of Us

Journey to Another Town

At the End of Summer

A Long Path on a Short Day

Pants

Fufel

Bright Personality

Spring of the Twenty-Ninth

Detective Bureau "Felix"

The Watchmaker and the Chicken

Prince Napoleon

Tartuffe

My Father Is an Idealist

Joy Ride

The Gypsy Baron

When the Saints March

Goblin Sanctuary


















