Bruno O'Ya
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Bruno O'Ya (born Bruno Oja; February 12, 1933 – October 9, 2002) was an Estonian-Polish actor. In 1974 he starred in the Academy Award-nominated film The Deluge under Jerzy Hoffman. He also appeared in the 1978 film Centaurs. He released a folk album with 12 songs in 1973. Born on February 12, 1933, in Tallinn, O'Ya was born to Verner and Hilda Oja; his brother was Kenno Oja. He was married four times, and has a daughter, Dominika. O'Ya studied piano with the Estonian composer Eugen Kapp. He was part of a pop music group in Tartu in 1951 and the Riga Teacher's House dance orchestra from 1956–1964. From the late the 1960s, he mainly lived and worked in Wrocław, Poland, but did not renounce his Soviet citizenship, as that was how he was able to visit Estonia. In 1967, he changed his Estonian surname to a foreign one, henceforth writing the surname with a y and adding an apostrophe after the first letter in order to simplify foreign contact. After Estonia regained its independence, O'Ya returned to Estonia, where he supervised a youth theater. On the initiative of Foreign Minister Trivim Velliste, O'Ya became the cultural attaché and honorary consul of the Republic of Estonia in Poland. In 1998 he suffered a stroke.
Known for
Credits
Fatal Error (1970)
as Hank Jackson
An Unknown Friend (1978)
as Bruno Linden
Operation 'Trust' (1968)
as Birk
The Red Tent (1969)
as Norwegian Radio Operator (uncredited)
Wolves' Echoes (1968)
as Piotr Słotwina
Possession (1973)
as Apartment Owner
Nobody Wanted to Die (1966)
as Bronius
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965)
as Янсен, капитан яхты "Аризона"
Time, Forward! (1965)
as Thomas Bixby
Nazis and Blondes (2008)
as (archive footage)
49 Days (1962)
Actor
Tēva zeme (1961)
Actor
A Shot in the Fog (1964)
as Бинкль - атташе
Wedle wyroków twoich... (1984)
as chłop Pietrek
Cottage in the Dunes (1963)
Actor
The Deluge (1974)
as Józwa Butrym
The Last One Will Go to Hell (1982)
as pasovský fendrich Hoff
General and Daisies (1963)
as Vladec Lekhovski
Black Rusks (1972)
Actor
The Lark (1964)
as Obersturmbannfuhrer
Na całość (1986)
as Skandynaw
The Weddings of Ioan Assen (1975)
as Knyaz Yuriy
The Centaurs (1979)
as Nilson
Ostrze na ostrze (1983)
as Jacek Dydyński
Mr. Blot in Space (1988)
Actor
Remember, Kaspar! (1965)
Actor
On the Same Planet (1966)
Actor
When Love Was a Crime (1968)
as Denis Lenoir
Copernicus (1973)
as Color Bearer (uncredited)
Heads Full of Stars (1983)
as Soviet Officer
Early in the Morning (1965)
as певец в ресторане
Kazimierz Wielki (1976)
as Spytek from Melsztyn
Tauriņdeja (1972)
as Harijs Maurs
Tender Spots (1981)
as Oficer
Aktorka (1971)
as Kasjo
Das letzte Wort (1971)
Actor
Przyśpieszenie (1985)
as Father Christmas
Rykowisko (1987)
as senator Mickey Caposta