Ivan Dmitriyev was a Russian character actor known as Gorelov in the criminal drama Krutye gorki (1957) by director Nikolai Rozantsev.
He was born Ivan Petrovich Dmitriyev on 30 July 1915, in Vyshny Volochiok, Tver Province, Russia. From 1932 to 1936 he studied acting under the legendary Yuri Yuriev at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinematography, graduating with honors in 1936. That same year he made his stage debut in the Lermontov's "Masquerade" by director Vsevolod Meyerhold.