Jüri Järvet
Actor
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!.
Filmography
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
as Alex Snewahr 1979
King Lear
as King Lear 1970
The Last Relic
as Brother Johannes (voice) (uncredited) 1970
Summer
as Toots's Father 1976
The Dead Season
as Professor O'Reilly 1968
The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later
1994
The Adventurer
as Siimon Vaa 1983
Madness
as Windisch 1969
A Fairy Tale Told at Night
as Waldmännchen 1981
City Unplugged
as Anton 1993
Philipp Traum
as Father Peter 1990
Postmark from Vienna
as Martin Roll 1968
The New Devil of Hellsbottom
as Peetrus 1965
Vernanda
1988
The Accident
as Вальтер - судья 1975
Marraskuun harmaa valo
as Old Man 1993