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Valéry Inkijinoff
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Valéry Inkijinoff
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1895-03-25,Bokhan, Irkutsk governorate, Russian Empire
Gender
Male
Biography
Valéry Inkijinoff (Russian: Валерьян (Валерий) Иванович Инкижинов; 25 March 1895 – 26 September 1973) was a French actor of Russian-Buryat origin. His strong facial features made him a favourite villain of French cinema for exotic adventure films and crime movies. Inkijinoff was born to a Christian Buryat father and a Russian mother in Irkutsk gubernia. He studied at the Polytechnical Institute of Saint Petersburg and was for a time one of the resident actors of an imperial theater of this city. At the beginning of his career in Russia, he appeared first as stuntman in a few movies and then as director and as actor. His major lead role during the Russian part of his career is The Son in Storm Over Asia by Vsevolod Pudovkin in 1928, a major Soviet propaganda film about a fictional British consolidation of Mongolia. He was also an actor in the troop of Vsevolod Meyerhold and was then appointed as director of the movie and theater school of Kiev in Ukraine. In 1930, while in France on a European tour, he refused to return to the USSR. According to Boris Shumyatsky, after Stalin learned Inkijinoff had never returned in 1934, said: "Too bad that the man escaped. Now he, probably, is dying to come back but, alas, too late." He starred in 2 movies while living in the Soviet Union, and contrary to Stalin's assumption, Inkijinoff became immensely popular in Europe, arguably the most successful Soviet actor abroad, starring in a total of 44 French, British, German, and Italian films. In France he frequently played the part of Asian villains. His most active period was in the thirties, when he appeared in Les Bateliers de la Volga and the G. W. Pabst film Le drame de Shanghai. He played for Fritz Lang in 1959, in Der Tiger von Eschnapur and its sequel Das indische Grabmal, in which he played the role of the high priest Yama. In 1965, Philippe de Broca cast him as Monsieur Goh, the wise but scary Chinese who guarantees to the Jean-Paul Belmondo character a certain death in Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine. His last movie was with Brigitte Bardot and Claudia Cardinale, where he played the role of Indian chief Spitting Bull in Les pétroleuses. He was a great friend of Charles Dullin and Louis Jouvet, and had a long career in French theater, appearing for instance in Marie Galante by Jacques Deval. He died at his home in Brunoy, Essonne, France, aged 78. Source: Article "Valéry Inkijinoff" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

The Legend of Frenchie King

5.5

The Legend of Frenchie King
1971-12-16

The Yellow Captain

0

The Yellow Captain
1930-12-19

Street Without Joy

0

Street Without Joy
1938-04-13

6.1

A Man's Neck
1933-02-18

The Triumph of Michael Strogoff

6.7

The Triumph of Michael Strogoff
1961-12-15

Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World

5.8

Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
1961-10-31

5.389

Amok
1934-02-21

0

Typhoon
1933-08-25

The Wife of General Ling

6.2

The Wife of General Ling
1937-04-07

The Shanghai Drama

6.4

The Shanghai Drama
1938-09-23

5

Friesennot
1935-11-19

Storm Over Asia

6.5

Storm Over Asia
1928-11-10

Mata Hari's Daughter

0

Mata Hari's Daughter
1954-09-22

The Last Adventure

6.9

The Last Adventure
1967-04-12

License to Kill

5.3

License to Kill
1964-06-16

7

The Battle
1934-05-11

Man Wants to Live

0

Man Wants to Live
1961-11-06

My Uncle from Texas

0

My Uncle from Texas
1962-09-28

Volga in Flames

5.9

Volga in Flames
1934-02-09

Mistress of the World - Part II

5

Mistress of the World - Part II
1960-04-26

The Biggest Bundle of Them All

5.7

The Biggest Bundle of Them All
1968-01-17

Journey to the Lost City

6.6

Journey to the Lost City
1960-10-01

Police File 909

5

Police File 909
1934-07-27

The Rebel Gladiators

5

The Rebel Gladiators
1962-11-15

6

Rail Pirates
1938-01-19

Corinna Darling

6

Corinna Darling
1956-12-22

Michael Strogoff

6.5

Michael Strogoff
1956-12-14

5.6

Maya
1949-12-09

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

5.8

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
1964-09-17

O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo

6.803

O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo
1966-10-28

10

La Renégate
1948-04-09

The Blonde from Peking

5.4

The Blonde from Peking
1967-08-25

Les Bateliers de la Volga

0

Les Bateliers de la Volga
1935-07-05

The Indian Tomb

6

The Indian Tomb
1959-03-05

The Tiger of Eschnapur

6.2

The Tiger of Eschnapur
1959-01-21

The Doctor of Stalingrad

7

The Doctor of Stalingrad
1958-02-20