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{{Short description|Soviet and Russian actor (1927–2008)}}
{{for|the Russian ice hockey player and coach|Igor Dmitriev (ice hockey)}}
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'''Igor Borisovich Dmitriev''' ({{langx|ru|И́горь Бори́сович Дми́триев}}) (29 May 1927 – 26 January 2008) was a [[Soviet people|Soviet]] and [[Russians|Russian]] film and theatre [[actor]] who specialized in playing aristocratic characters in costume productions (e.g., [[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern|Rosencrantz]] in [[Grigori Kozintsev]]'s ''[[Hamlet (1964 film)|Hamlet]]'').

Igor Dmitriev was born in [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]] to parents Boris Petrovich Dmitriev, a professional [[yacht]]sman 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 (film director)|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==
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* [[Ivan Pavlov (film)|Ivan Pavlov]] (1950) as ''student''
* ''She Loves You'' (1956) as ''Anatoly Pylnikov''
* ''[[And Quiet Flows the Don (1958 film)|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 (1959 film)|Virgin Soil Upturned]]'' (1960)  as Lyatyevsky
* ''[[Black Gull]]'' (1962) as wounded
* ''[[Kain XVIII]]'' (1963) as General
* ''[[Hamlet (1964 film)|Hamlet]]'' (''Гамлет'', 1964) as [[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern|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 film)|Dauria]]''  (1971) as esaul Solomonov
* ''[[Goya or the Hard Way to Enlightenment]]'' (1972) as [[Duke of Alba]]
* ''[[Farewell to St. Petersburg (film)|Farewell to St. Petersburg]]'' (1972) as Grand Duke Konstantin
* ''[[The Captivating Star of Happiness]]'' (1975) as Ludwig Lebsteltern
* ''[[Trust (1976 film)|Trust]]'' (1976) as [[Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich]]
* ''[[The Blue Bird (1976 film)|The Blue Bird]]'' (1976) as Pleasure to Beloved Himself
* ''Golden Mine'' (1977) as Dr. Podneix
* ''[[The Dog in the Manger (1978 film)|The Dog in the Manger]]'' (1978) as Count Federico
* ''[[A Glass of Water (1979 film)|A Glass of Water]]'' (1979) as Marquis de Torcy
* ''[[Die Fledermaus (1979 film)|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 (1982 film)|Magistral]]'' ''({{langx|ru|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 (film)|Anna Pavlova]]'' (1983-1986) as [[Léon Bakst]]
* ''[[The Hobbit (1985 film)|The Hobbit]]'' (1985) as  [[Gollum]] 
*''[[The Mountains are Smoking (film)|The Mountains are Smoking]]'' (1988) as Baron von Steinberg
* ''[[A Bright Personality]]'' (1989) as Bernardov
* ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (play)|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

==External links==
* {{in lang|ru}} [http://www.peoples.ru/art/theatre/actor/dmitriyev/ Biography]
* {{in lang|ru}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20040419194456/http://komedia.ru/actors/bio-dmitriev.html Biography]
* {{in lang|ru}} [http://www.gazeta.ru/culture/2008/01/26/a_2601393.shtml Obituary]
* {{IMDb name|id=0229392|name=Igor Dmitriyev}}
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[[Category:Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)]]
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[[Category:Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class]]
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