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