Name
Jüri Järvet
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1919-06-18
Deathday
1995-07-05 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Biography
Jüri Järvet (June 18, 1919 – July 5, 1995) was an Estonian actor. His name sometimes appears as Yuri Yevgenyevich Yarvet, an incorrect back-transliteration from the Russian transliteration Юри Евгеньевич Ярвет. His birthname was Georgi Kuznetsov, and he took the Estonian form in 1938.
Järvet is best known in the West for the role of Dr. Snaut in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, but he played in numerous other films both in Russian and his native Estonian. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1975, and the USSR State Prize in 1981.
Järvet played the title role in a powerful version of King Lear (1971) filmed on bleak landscapes in his native Estonia by Russian director Grigori Kozintsev and released in 1970. Kozintsev shared the screenwriting credit with Boris Pasternak; the score was by Dmitri Shostakovich.
His son Jüri Järvet Jr. has also acted in several movies, including All My Lenins and Khrustalyov, My Car!.
Known For
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A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt o...
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Toomas Nipernaadi is seen roaming the rural landscape, going from village to village looki...
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Soviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort t...
- 1972 Solaris as Dr. Snaut
- 1970 King Lear as King Lear
- 1994 The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later
- 1993 Marraskuun harmaa valo as Old Man
- 1993 City Unplugged as Anton
- 1979 Dead Mountaineer's Hotel as Alex Snewahr
- 1979 The Visitor
- 1971 Windy Beach as Hollmann
- 1983 Nipernaadi as Siimon Vaa
- 1968 Postmark from Vienna as Martin Roll
- 1976 Summer as Toots's Father
- 1968 The Dead Season as Professor O'Reilly
- 1963 Under the Same Roof as Tõnis
- 1990 Philipp Traum as Father Peter
- 1992 The Time of Your Life
- 1970 The Last Relic as Brother Johannes (voice) (uncredited)
- 1993 Candles in the Dark
- 1995 Legends of Tallinn as Old Mayor (voice)
- 1965 The New Devil of Hellsbottom as Peetrus
- 1960 Actor Joller as Ruts
- 1988 Vernanda
- 1965 The Milkman of Mäeküla as Tõnu Prillup
- 1974 Dangerous Games as Õline
- 1969 Madness as Windisch
- 1975 The Accident as Вальтер - судья
- 1989 The Watchmaker and the Chicken
- 1981 A Fairy Tale Told at Night as Waldmännchen
- 1993 Tear of the Prince of Darkness as Old Compositor
- 1974 Spring in the Forest as Minna's Father
- 1978 Daisy Petal Game as Oskar (segment "Poacher")
- 1972 The Committee of 19 as Techer
- 1984 Lurich as Lawyer
- 1964 Traces as Elmar
- 1991 Peace Avenue as Jaak
- 1972 Forest Captain as Jõnn
- 1959 Uninvited Guests
- 1967 Girl in Black
- 1986 Face to Face as Золле
- 1984 Капитан Фракасс as Матамор
- 1975 The Red Violin as Peek
- 1976 Indrek as Religion Teacher
- 1977 Time to Live, Time to Love
- 1980 Wild Violets as Lipp
- 1988 Dance Around the Steam Boiler
- 1974 An Unusual Story as Psychiatrist
- 1986 In the Time of the Law of the Wolf
- 1955 Andrus' Happiness
- 1962 Laulu sõber as Ott Kuu, traktorist
- 1991 Surmatants as Tallinna linnapea
- 1992 Luukas as Albert
- 1971 Lack of Wind as Saare Sander
- 1984 Cargo With No Markings as контрабандист
- 1981 Murder on the 31st Floor as Karl Branner
- 1971 Echoes of the Past as Zeifert
- 1992 He Will Receive as Demoney
- 1984 Täna õhtul... as Self
- 2026 JJ: Every Inch a King as Self (archive footage)
- 1977 Data Tutashkhia ( 7 episodes ) as Count Seged
- 1975 Авария ( 2 episodes ) as Вальтер, судья
