Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
58
Gender
Male
Birthday
1919-06-18
Day of Death
1995-07-05 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Also Known As
Юри Евгеньевич Ярвет
Yuri Yevgenyevich Yarvet
Georgi Kuznetsov
Георгий Евгеньевич Кузнецов
Георгий Кузнецов
Jüri Järvet
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!.
