Valéry Inkijinoff

Personal Info

Birthday

March 25, 1895

Day of Death

1973-09-26

(78 years old)

Place of Birth

Bokhan, Irkutsk governorate, Russian Empire

Also Known As

Vladimir Inkijinoff

Valeri Inkishanov

Valery Inkiginoff

Walerian Iwanowitsch Inkischinow

Валерий Иванович Инкижинов

Валерий Инкижинов

В. Инкижинов

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.