Jüri Järvet

Actor, Film actor

1919 – 1995

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Who was Jüri Järvet?

Jüri Järvet 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 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!.

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Born
Jun 18, 1919
Tallinn
Also known as
  • Grigori Kuznetsov
  • Yuri Yarvet
  • Yu. Yarvet
  • Georgi Kuznetsov
  • Yuri Yevgenyevich Yarvet
  • Juri Jarvet
  • Jüri Järvet sen.
Spouses
Children
Nationality
  • Estonia
  • Soviet Union
Profession
Died
Jul 5, 1995
Tallinn

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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