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Valéry Inkijinoff

Valéry Inkijinoff

Birthday: 1895-03-25 | Place of Birth: Bokhan, URSS

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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Known For

The Last Adventure
The Last Adventure

The Last Adventure   1967

Sull'uscita: 
1967

Punteggio: 7

Generi: 
Adventure  /  Drama  /  Romance
Cast: 
Alain Delon  /  Lino Ventura  /  Joanna Shimkus
License to Kill
License to Kill

License to Kill   1964

Sull'uscita: 
1964

Punteggio: 5.3

Generi: 
Action  /  Crime
Journey to the Lost City
Journey to the Lost City

Journey to the Lost City   1960

Sull'uscita: 
1960

Punteggio: 6.5

Generi: 
Adventure
Cast: 
Debra Paget  /  Paul Hubschmid  /  Walther Reyer
The Wife of General Ling
The Wife of General Ling

The Wife of General Ling   1937

Sull'uscita: 
1937

Punteggio: 6.3

Generi: 
Adventure  /  Drama

Acting

1967
The Last Adventure

as    Kyobaski, producer

1964
License to Kill

as    Li-Hang (as Inkijinoff)

1960
Journey to the Lost City

as    Yama, High Priest

1937
The Wife of General Ling

as    General Ling

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