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person_profile-Valéry Inkijinoff

Valéry Inkijinoff Died at age: 78

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Valéry Inkijinoff

Date of Birth:

Mar 25, 1895

Country of birth:

Russian Empire

Died:

Sep 26, 1973

Biography of

Valéry Inkijinoff

    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.

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Valéry Inkijinoff

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Filmography of

Valéry Inkijinoff

Found 31 Movies in total

Buryat in European Cinema

Himself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2024

The Legend of Frenchie King

Spitting Bull ( Actor )

... 1971

The Biggest Bundle of Them All

Mafia Guy in Sauna (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1968

The Blonde from Peking

Fang Ho Kung ( Actor )

... 1967

The Last Adventure

Kyobaski, producer ( Actor )

... 1967

... 1966

... 1965

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Krishna ( Actor )

... 1964

The Rebel Gladiators

Gladiator ( Actor )

... 1962

... 1962

The Triumph of Michael Strogoff

Yusuf Ben Amektal ( Actor )

... 1961

... 1961

... 1961

Journey to the Lost City

Yama, High Priest ( Actor )

... 1960

... 1960

The Indian Tomb

Yama ( Actor )

... 1959

... 1959

... 1958

Michael Strogoff

Feofar Khan ( Actor )

... 1956

Mata Hari's Daughter

Naos ( Actor )

... 1954

Maya

Cachemire ( Actor )

... 1949

La Renégate

Moktar ( Actor )

... 1948

The Shanghai Drama

Lee Pang ( Actor )

... 1938

... 1938

Rail Pirates

Wang ( Actor )

... 1938

Friesennot

Kommissar Tschernoff ( Actor )

... 1935

... 1935

The Battle

Hirata ( Actor )

... 1934

Volga in Flames

Silatschoff ( Actor )

... 1934

A Man's Neck

Radek ( Actor )

... 1933

Storm Over Asia

Bair ( Actor )

... 1928