Valéry Inkijinoff

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…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Up to His Ears (1965) — Mr. Goh
2. The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959) — Yama
3. The Last Adventure (1967) — Kyobaski, producer
4. The Indian Tomb (1959) — Yama
5. Storm Over Asia (1928) — Bair
6. The Legend of Frenchie King (1971) — Spitting Bull
7. Michael Strogoff (1956) — Feofar Khan
8. O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo (1966) — Yekota
9. A Man's Head (1933) — Radek
10. The Blonde from Peking (1967) — Fang Ho Kung
11. The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) — Mafia Guy in Sauna (uncredited)
12. Maya (1949) — Cachemire
13. Amok (1934) — Maté / Amok-afflicted Native
14. The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964) — Dr. Krishna
15. Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World (1961) — High Priest
16. The Triumph of Michael Strogoff (1961) — Yusuf Ben Amektal
17. The Shanghai Drama (1938) — Lee Pang
18. Volga in Flames (1934) — Silatschoff
19. Journey to the Lost City (1960) — Yama, High Priest
20. Matchless (1967)
21. License to Kill (1964) — Li-Hang
22. Rail Pirates (1938) — Wang
23. Frisians in Peril (1935) — Kommissar Tschernoff
24. The Battle (1934) — Hirata Takamuri
25. Police File 909 (1934) — Dr. Nitobe Tokeramo
26. The Doctor of Stalingrad (1958)
27. The Wife of General Ling (1937) — General Ling
28. Corinna Darling (1956) — Chin
29. The Rebel Gladiators (1962) — Gladiator
30. La Renégate (1948) — Moktar
31. Street Without Joy (1938) — Louis Stinner
32. Mata Hari's Daughter (1954) — Naos
33. Man Wants to Live (1961)
34. My Uncle from Texas (1962) — The old Indian
35. Mistress of the World - Part II (1960) — Priester
36. Les Bateliers de la Volga (1935) — Kiro
37. The Last Four on Santa Cruz (1936) — Reeder Alexis Aika
38. The Yellow Captain (1930)
39. Typhoon (1933) — Doctor Nitobe Tokeramo
40. Buryat in European Cinema (2024) — Himself (archive footage)

Directed

1. Rasplata (1926) — Director