Igor Ilyinsky Filmography

Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky was a famous Russian actor and notable silent film comedian. Igor Ilyinsky was born on 24 July 1901 in Moscow. At the age of 16 he entered the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre Studio and in half a year already debuted on the professional stage in Kommisarzhevskaya Theatre. His first theatre role was that of Old Man in Aristophanes play Lysistrata. Already then Igor Ilyinsky showed himself as a gifted comic actor. In 1920 Igor Ilyinsky joined the Vsevolod Meyerhold Theatre. The young actor’s vividly notional acting style was in total correspondence with the... principles of Meyerhold, and so Ilyinsky soon became the central actor of that theatre. In the Meyerhold Theatre he worked for over ten years. It is interesting to note that for some time Ilyinsky was the only young actor, who Meyerhold respectfully called by his first and patronymic name - Igor Vladimirovich. In the second half of the 1920s Igor Ilyinsky started to appear in movies, where he also played vivid comic characters. In 1924 Yakov Protazanov featured him in his famous futuristic film Aelita.
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