Honored Artist of the RSFSR 12101963 Peoples Artist of the RSFSR 08151988 Academician of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia Member of the English Club and the World Club of Petersburgers The future actor participated in school amateur performances studied in the pioneer song and dance ensemble of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers He made his film debut at the age of 12 the first role was a Polish high school student in V Fainbergs film The Voice of Taras During the Great Patriotic War together with his mother he ended up in the city of Molotov Perm where they were evacuated along with the Mariinsky Theater and the choreographic school In 1943 he entered the theater studio at the Perm Drama Theatre after classes he stayed for performances played in crowd scenes In September 1944 he came to Moscow to enter the theater institute He entered the VI NemirovichDanchenko at the Moscow Art Theater in the class of Peoples Artists of the USSR Pavel Vladimirovich Massalsky and Sergei Kapitonovich Blinnikov In 1948 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School and was accepted into the troupe of the Leningrad Drama Theater which now bears the name of Vera Fedorovna Komissarzhevskaya After leaving the theater he became an actor at the Lenfilm Film Actor Studio The first significant film role was Yevgeny Listnitsky in the film Quiet Flows the Don 1957 In addition to the domestic actor he worked a lot at film studios in Hungary Poland the GDR the USA Morocco Algeria Igor Dmitriev is the author of about 30 TV programs from the cycle At Igor D on television in St Petersburg This cycle was awarded the Golden Horse Grand Prix at the Velvet Season international festival In 1984 Igor Dmitriev was accepted into the troupe of the Leningrad Academic Comedy Theater named after NP Akimov on the stage of which he made his debut in the role of Chinzanov in the play based on the play by Sergei Mikhalkov Kings Can Do Everything The return of the actor to the theater stage was a notable event in the cultural life of Leningrad in 1984 Collaborated with the St Petersburg Theater Russian Entreprise named after Andrei Mironov and played in the play Talents and Admirers at the Bolshoi Drama Theater named after GA Tovstonogov Igor Dmitriev revived the genre of melody and having managed to achieve a true harmony of sound and word was the only Russian actor who mastered this art For the anniversary of the actor the Rossiya TV channel shot a documentary film about the life and work of Igor Dmitriev Peoples Marquis of the Soviet Union 2007