Veniamin Borisovich Smekhov (Russian: Вениами́н Бори́сович Сме́хов; born 10 August 1940 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and director. He was the winner of the Petropol Award (2000) as well as the Tsarskoselsky Artistic Prize (2009). He refused the title of People's Artist of Russia, which was offered to him on his 70th birthday.
Smekhov has long worked in the Moscow Taganka Theatre where his roles included Woland in a stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. His portrayal of the main antagonist of the story is considered to be the best of any adaption of the novel. In film, he is best known and loved for the role of Athos in a Russian version of D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) and its sequels (1992, 1993). He also has written children's poetry, scripts, memoirs and comedic materials.
2022
as Брагадин
2022
2020
2020
2020
2019
as himself
2016
as Виталий Дейкевич
2016
as Luka Sergeevich
2014
as Yakob
2013
2012
as Athos
2009
as Athos
2009
as Narrator (voice)
2008
as Ilya Nikolaevich Orlov
2008
1993
as Narrator
1993
as Король
1993
as Athos
1993
1992
as Athos
1992
1991
as Benzhamen Borever
1991
1990
as Maximin, the false cure
1987
1986
1983
as Don Quixote
1983
as Мустафа
1983
1980
as admiral (voice)
1980
as admiral/radio announcer/reporter (voice)
1979
as Athos
1979
as Uncle Seva
1976
1975
1975
1974
as (voice)
1971
1967