Valéry Inkijinoff

Valéry Inkijinoff

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1895-03-25
Deathday: 1973-09-26 (78 years old)

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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.


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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Filmography

all 38

Movies 37

TV Shows 1

Producer 1

Director 1

Spitting Bull
The Legend of Frenchie King

The Legend of Frenchie King (1971)

Movie
Mr. X / Le Képala
The Aeronauts

The Aeronauts (1967)

TV
Fang Ho Kung
The Blonde from Peking

The Blonde from Peking (1967)

Movie
Kyobaski, producer
The Last Adventure

The Last Adventure (1967)

Movie
Yekota
O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo

O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo (1966)

Movie
Dr. Krishna
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964)

Movie
Li-Hang (as Inkijinoff)
License to Kill

License to Kill (1964)

Movie
Gladiator
The Rebel Gladiators

The Rebel Gladiators (1962)

Movie
Le vieil indien
My Uncle from Texas

My Uncle from Texas (1962)

Movie
Yusuf Ben Amektal
The Triumph of Michael Strogoff

The Triumph of Michael Strogoff (1961)

Movie
High Priest
Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World

Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World (1961)

Movie
Yama, High Priest
Journey to the Lost City

Journey to the Lost City (1960)

Movie
Priester
Mistress of the World - Part II

Mistress of the World - Part II (1960)

Movie
Yama
The Indian Tomb

The Indian Tomb (1959)

Movie
Yama
The Tiger of Eschnapur

The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)

Movie
The Doctor of Stalingrad

The Doctor of Stalingrad (1958)

Movie
Chin
Corinna Darling

Corinna Darling (1956)

Movie
Feofar Khan
Michael Strogoff

Michael Strogoff (1956)

Movie
Osaki
Verrat an Deutschland

Verrat an Deutschland (1955)

Movie
Naos
Mata Hari's Daughter

Mata Hari's Daughter (1954)

Movie
Cachemire
Maya

Maya (1949)

Movie
Moktar
La Renégate

La Renégate (1948)

Movie
Lee Pang
The Shanghai Drama

The Shanghai Drama (1938)

Movie
Street Without Joy

Street Without Joy (1938)

Movie
Wang
Rail Pirates

Rail Pirates (1938)

Movie
General Ling / Mr. Wong
The Wife of General Ling

The Wife of General Ling (1937)

Movie
Reeder Alexis Aika
Die letzten vier von Santa Cruz

Die letzten vier von Santa Cruz (1936)

Movie
Kommissar Tschernoff
Friesennot

Friesennot (1935)

Movie
Kiro
Les Bateliers de la Volga

Les Bateliers de la Volga (1935)

Movie
Dr. Nitobe Tokeramo
Police File 909

Police File 909 (1934)

Movie
Hirata
The Battle

The Battle (1934)

Movie
Amok et Maté
Amok

Amok (1934)

Movie
Silatschoff
Volga in Flames

Volga in Flames (1934)

Movie
Doctor Nitobe Tokeramo
Typhoon

Typhoon (1933)

Movie
Radek
A Man's Neck

A Man's Neck (1933)

Movie
The Yellow Captain

The Yellow Captain (1930)

Movie
Bair, the Mongol [The Son - U.S.]
Storm Over Asia

Storm Over Asia (1928)

Movie
6
Director
Rasplata

Rasplata (1926)

Movie

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Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1895-03-25

Deathday
1973-09-26 (78 years old)

Birth Name
Валерий Иванович Инкижинов

Birth Place
Irkutsk, Russia

Citizenships
Russian Empire, France

Also Known As
Vladimir Inkijinoff, Valeri Inkishanov, Valery Inkiginoff, Walerian Iwanowitsch Inkischinow, Валерий Иванович Инкижинов, Валерий Инкижинов


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