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.
Die tollen Abenteuer des Monsieur L.
Der Tiger von Eschnapur
Die Abenteurer
Das indische Grabmal
Sturm über Asien
Petroleummiezen
OSS 117 - Teufelstanz in Tokio
Der Kurier des Zaren
Maigret - Um eines Mannes Kopf
Die Blonde von Peking
Die Platinbande
Maya