Igor Dmitriev

Who was Igor Dmitriev?

Igor Borisovich Dmitriev was a Russian film and theater actor who specialized in playing aristocratic characters in costume productions.

Igor Dmitriev was born in Leningrad in the family of Boris Petrovich Dmitriev, who was a professional yachtsman and his wife Elena Tauber, a ballerina. In 1948 he complete the Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre and became in 1949 an actor of the Vera Komissarzhevskaya Theater of Drama in Leningrad. From 1967 to 1984 he served at Lenfilm. From 1984 to present he played in the Nikolay Akimov Theated of Comedy. Dmitriev worked with Georgi Tovstonogov, Sergei Gerasimov, Yan Frid. He acted in more than 120 films, not only in Soviet Union, but also in Hungary, Poland, GDR, U.S., 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 and 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.