Jüri Järvet

Jüri Järvet
Born	Georgi Yevgenyevich Kuznetsov (1919-06-18)18 June 1919 Tallinn, Estonia
Died	5 July 1995(1995-07-05) (aged 76) Tallinn, Estonia
Occupation	Actor

Jüri Järvet^[a] (18 June 1919 – 5 July 1995, born Georgi Yevgenyevich Kuznetsov)^[b] was an actor in Estonia and the Soviet Union.^[1]

Jüri Järvet's birthname was Georgi Yevgenyevich Kuznetsov, and he took the Estonian form in 1938. Järvet's mother was a Russian, while his father is believed to have been an ethnic German who had immigrated from Lorraine.^[2]

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 in 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 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. [Wikidata] has also acted in several movies, including All My Lenins and Khrustalyov, My Car!.^[3]

• Jüri Järvet at IMDb