Igor Borisovich Dmitriev (Russian: И́горь Бори́сович Дми́триев) (29 May 1927 – 26 January 2008) was a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actor who specialized in playing aristocratic characters in costume productions (e.g., Rosencrantz in Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet).
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 (1950) as student
She Loves You (1956) as Anatoly Pylnikov
And Quiet Flows the Don (1957–1958) as Evgeny Listnitsky
In the Days of October (1958) as Alexander Blok
Under the Knock of the Wheels (1958) as Vasily Kovalsky
Virgin Soil Upturned (1960) as Lyatyevsky
Black Gull (1962) as wounded
Kain XVIII (1963) as General
Hamlet (Гамлет, 1964) as Rosencrantz
Speckle (1965) as Igor Borisovich
Green Coach (1967) as Nikolai Osipovich Dyur
Nikolay Bauman (1967) as Vasily Kachalov
No Password Needed (1967) as lieutenant Mordvinov
An Old, Old Tale (1968) as prince
Lyubov Yarovaya (1970) as Elysatov
Franz Liszt. Dreams of love (1970) as prince Nikolay Petrovich Wittgenstein
Dauria (1971) as esaul Solomonov
Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment (1972) as Duke of Alba
Farewell to St. Petersburg (1972) as Grand Duke Konstantin
The Captivating Star of Happiness (1975) as Ludwig Lebsteltern
Trust (1976) as Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich
The Blue Bird (1976) as Pleasure to Beloved Himself
Golden Mine (1977) as Dr. Podneix
The Dog in the Manger (1978) as Count Federico
A Glass of Water (1979) as Marquis de Torcy
Die Fledermaus (1979) as Frank, director of the prison
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979) as Inspector Gregson
The Suicide Club, or the Adventures of a Titled Person (1981) as Colonel Geraldine
The Pokrovsky Gate (1982) as Gleb Orlovich
Magistral (Russian: Магистраль) as Passender Igor
Return from Orbit (1983) as Kuznetsov's fellow traveler on the train
Crazy Day of Engineer Barkasov (1983) as Krutetsky
Anna Pavlova (1983-1986) as Léon Bakst
The Hobbit (1985) as Gollum
The Mountains are Smoking (1988) as Baron von Steinberg
A Bright Personality (1989) as Bernardov
Cyrano de Bergerac (1989) as Monflery
Musketeers Twenty Years After (1992) as François de Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort
Beautiful Stranger (1992) as retired military
Tartuffe (1992) as Cleanthes
Streets of Broken Lights (1999) as director
Give Me Moonlight (2001) as Eduard Sorokin
