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
The Red Tent (1969)
as Norwegian Radio Operator (uncredited)
The Deluge (1974)
as Józwa Butrym
Time, Forward! (1965)
as Thomas Bixby
Operation 'Trust' (1968)
as Birk
Fatal Error (1970)
as Hank Jackson
Black Rusks (1972)
Actor
Nazis and Blondes (2008)
as (archive footage)
Possession (1973)
as Apartment Owner
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965)
as Янсен, капитан яхты "Аризона"
Copernicus (1973)
as Color Bearer (uncredited)
Tauriņdeja (1972)
as Harijs Maurs
A Shot in the Fog (1964)
as Бинкль - атташе
The Centaurs (1979)
as Nilson
Cottage in the Dunes (1963)
Actor
Wedle wyroków twoich... (1984)
as chłop Pietrek
The Last One Will Go to Hell (1982)
as pasovský fendrich Hoff
When Love Was a Crime (1968)
as Denis Lenoir
The Lark (1964)
as Obersturmbannfuhrer
Kazimierz Wielki (1976)
as Spytek from Melsztyn
Przyśpieszenie (1985)
as Father Christmas
Mr. Blot in Space (1988)
Actor
Early in the Morning (1965)
as певец в ресторане
The Weddings of Ioan Assen (1975)
as Knyaz Yuriy
Tender Spots (1981)
as Oficer
An Unknown Friend (1978)
as Bruno Linden
Das letzte Wort (1971)
Actor
On the Same Planet (1966)
Actor
General and Daisies (1963)
as Vladec Lekhovski
Heads Full of Stars (1983)
as Soviet Officer
Nobody Wanted to Die (1966)
as Bronius
Remember, Kaspar! (1965)
Actor
49 Days (1962)
Actor
Ostrze na ostrze (1983)
as Jacek Dydyński
Aktorka (1971)
as Kasjo
Rykowisko (1987)
as senator Mickey Caposta
Na całość (1986)
as Skandynaw
Wolves' Echoes (1968)
as Piotr Słotwina