Valéry Inkijinoff

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 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.

  • Title: Valéry Inkijinoff
  • Popularity: 1.199
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1895-03-25
  • Place of Birth: Bokhan, Irkutsk governorate, Russian Empire
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  • Also Known As: Vladimir Inkijinoff, Valeri Inkishanov, Valery Inkiginoff, Walerian Iwanowitsch Inkischinow, Валерий Иванович Инкижинов, Валерий Инкижинов
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Valéry Inkijinoff Movies

  • 1971
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    The Legend of Frenchie King

    The Legend of Frenchie King

    5.5 1971 HD

    Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.

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  • 1930
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    The Yellow Captain

    The Yellow Captain

    1 1930 HD

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  • 1938
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    Street Without Joy

    Street Without Joy

    1 1938 HD

    Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street.

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  • 1933
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    A Man's Neck

    A Man's Neck

    6.1 1933 HD

    Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a...

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  • 1961
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    The Triumph of Michael Strogoff

    The Triumph of Michael Strogoff

    6.7 1961 HD

    In this adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, the Czarina asks an intrepid colonel to protect her nephew as he fights an invasion in 19th century...

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  • 1961
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    Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World

    Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World

    5.8 1961 HD

    Samson must rescue a beautiful Chinese princess from a marauding horde of warriors.

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  • 1934
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    Amok

    Amok

    5.389 1934 HD

    Dr. Holk leads an isolated and lonely existence in a small, Dutch colony in the tropics. Having fled from love and civilization, his only companions...

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  • 1933
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    Typhoon

    Typhoon

    1 1933 HD

    A Japanese doctor, on a secret mission to Paris for his country, becomes romantically involved with a cabaret singer at a Parisian nightclub. His...

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  • 1937
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    The Wife of General Ling

    The Wife of General Ling

    6.2 1937 HD

    In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous...

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  • 1938
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    The Shanghai Drama

    The Shanghai Drama

    6.4 1938 HD

    A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera....

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  • 1935
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    Friesennot

    Friesennot

    5 1935 HD

    The peaceful life of a village of Frisions by the river Volga is troubled by the arrival of a troop of Red Guards led by the inhuman commissary...

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  • 1928
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    Storm Over Asia

    Storm Over Asia

    6.5 1928 HD

    In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the...

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  • 1954
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    Mata Hari's Daughter

    Mata Hari's Daughter

    1 1954 HD

    In this espionage film, Mata Hari's daughter takes the mantle from her notorious mother and entangles her self in an Asian web of intrigue and war.

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  • 1967
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    The Last Adventure

    The Last Adventure

    6.9 1967 HD

    Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition,...

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  • 1964
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    License to Kill

    License to Kill

    5.3 1964 HD

    Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will be able to destroy to destroy any sort of flying...

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  • 1934
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    The Battle

    The Battle

    7 1934 HD

    The Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles...

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  • 1961
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    Man Wants to Live

    Man Wants to Live

    1 1961 HD

    Professor Chardin has just killed a man. Before calling the police to turn himself in, he burns some leaves and a notebook in the fireplace. Secret...

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  • 1962
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    My Uncle from Texas

    My Uncle from Texas

    1 1962 HD

    In 1911, Arnolphe Combalette left his corner of Provence to seek his fortune in the Americas. Fifty years later, a letter from him arrived in the...

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  • 1934
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    Volga in Flames

    Volga in Flames

    5.9 1934 HD

    Lieutenant Orloff, a recently graduated Russian officier, is making his way across the snow-covered steppes to the garrison where he is to be...

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  • 1960
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    Mistress of the World - Part II

    Mistress of the World - Part II

    5 1960 HD

    Karin is now continuing her father's research and is also caught in the cross hairs of the mysterious opponents. Johanson himself retreats to a...

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  • 1968
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    The Biggest Bundle of Them All

    The Biggest Bundle of Them All

    5.7 1968 HD

    A kidnapped mobster persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.

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  • 1960
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    Journey to the Lost City

    Journey to the Lost City

    6.6 1960 HD

    An exotic dancing girl of India inflames the passions of a traveling draftsman.

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  • 1934
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    Police File 909

    Police File 909

    5 1934 HD

    A Japanese doctor, on a secret mission to Paris for his country, becomes romantically involved with a cabaret singer at a Parisian nightclub. His...

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  • 1962
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    The Rebel Gladiators

    The Rebel Gladiators

    5 1962 HD

    In order to persuade the Emperor to spare his village, the mighty Ursus is forced to fight the greatest gladiator in Rome in the Roman Arena.

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  • 1938
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    Rail Pirates

    Rail Pirates

    6 1938 HD

    Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the incessant attacks of a gang of looters.

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  • 1956
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    Corinna Darling

    Corinna Darling

    6 1956 HD

    Out of love, young Corinna follows the plantation owner Mannsfeld to the Far East - where she has to realize that he is already married. A small...

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  • 1956
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    Michael Strogoff

    Michael Strogoff

    6.5 1956 HD

    When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern Siberia, Czar Alexander II of Russia entrusts...

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  • 1949
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    Maya

    Maya

    5.6 1949 HD

    Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what...

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  • 1964
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    The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

    The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

    5.8 1964 HD

    The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.

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  • 1966
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    O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo

    O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo

    6.8 1966 HD

    After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate the organization that's claiming...

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  • 1948
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    La Renégate

    La Renégate

    10 1948 HD

    In a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter, Conchita. She believes that Ricardo is her father....

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  • 1967
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    The Blonde from Peking

    The Blonde from Peking

    5.4 1967 HD

    Spies from several countries try to find out what secrets are hidden in the mind of a young amnesiac girl who has appeared in Paris.

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  • 1935
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    Les Bateliers de la Volga

    Les Bateliers de la Volga

    1 1935 HD

    In 1912, a Russian officer is wrongly accused of having stolen important papers. His only alibi being to have spent the night with the wife of a...

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  • 1959
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    The Tiger of Eschnapur

    The Tiger of Eschnapur

    6.2 1959 HD

    In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah's favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah's friend but their friendship is...

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  • 1959
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    The Indian Tomb

    The Indian Tomb

    6.025 1959 HD

    Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they...

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  • 1958
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    The Doctor of Stalingrad

    The Doctor of Stalingrad

    7 1958 HD

    Dr. Fritz Böhler is a prisoner of war doctor in the Soviet POW camp 5110/47 near Stalingrad. Despite the harshest conditions, he tries to help...

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  • 1926
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    Rasplata

    Rasplata

    1 1926 HD

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