Valéry Inkijinoff
Known for Acting · 41 credits
- Born
- 1895-03-25
- Died
- 1973-09-26
- Place of birth
- Bokhan, Irkutsk governorate, Russian Empire
- Also known as
- Vladimir Inkijinoff · Valeri Inkishanov · Valery Inkiginoff · Walerian Iwanowitsch Inkischinow · Валерий Иванович Инкижинов · Валерий Инкижинов
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.
Known For
Movies (41)
Up to His Ears
1965
as Mr. Goh
The Rebel Gladiators
1962
as Gladiator
The Legend of Frenchie King
1971
as Spitting Bull
The Indian Tomb
1959
as Yama
Michael Strogoff
1956
as Feofar Khan
The Last Adventure
1967
as Kyobaski, producer
O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo
1966
as Yekota
The Tiger of Eschnapur
1959
as Yama
Matchless
1967
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
1964
as Dr. Krishna
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World
1961
as High Priest
The Biggest Bundle of Them All
1968
as Mafia Guy in Sauna (uncredited)
The Battle
1934
as Hirata Takamuri
The Shanghai Drama
1938
as Lee Pang
Journey to the Lost City
1960
as Yama, High Priest
Police File 909
1934
as Dr. Nitobe Tokeramo
Maya
1949
as Cachemire
License to Kill
1964
as Li-Hang
The Doctor of Stalingrad
1958
Amok
1934
as Maté / Amok-afflicted Native
The Wife of General Ling
1937
as General Ling
A Man's Neck
1933
as Radek
The Triumph of Michael Strogoff
1961
as Yusuf Ben Amektal
Volga in Flames
1934
as Silatschoff
Mistress of the World - Part II
1960
as Priester
The Blonde from Peking
1967
as Fang Ho Kung
Rail Pirates
1938
as Wang
My Uncle from Texas
1962
as The old Indian
Frisians in Peril
1935
as Kommissar Tschernoff
La Renégate
1948
as Moktar
Storm Over Asia
1928
as Bair
Corinna Darling
1956
as Chin
Les Bateliers de la Volga
1935
as Kiro
Typhoon
1933
as Doctor Nitobe Tokeramo
The Last Four on Santa Cruz
1936
as Reeder Alexis Aika
Man Wants to Live
1961
Mata Hari's Daughter
1954
as Naos
The Yellow Captain
1930
Street Without Joy
1938
as Louis Stinner
Buryat in European Cinema
2024
as Himself (archive footage)
Il faut que je tue monsieur Rumann
1966
as M. Ruhmann
About 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 app… With 41 credits spanning from 1928 to 2024, Valéry Inkijinoff has appeared in 41 films and 0 TV shows.
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- Up to His Ears (1965) — as Mr. Goh
- The Rebel Gladiators (1962) — as Gladiator
- The Legend of Frenchie King (1971) — as Spitting Bull
- The Indian Tomb (1959) — as Yama
- Michael Strogoff (1956) — as Feofar Khan
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