Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 12, 1933
Died
Oct 09, 2002
Place of Birth
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Credits
43 titles
Bruno O'Ya
Biography
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
Filmography
Nazis and Blondes
(archive footage)
Mr. Blot in Space
Rykowisko
senator Mickey Caposta
Przyłbice i kaptury
Na całość
Skandynaw
Przyśpieszenie
Father Christmas
Wedle wyroków twoich...
chłop Pietrek
Heads Full of Stars
Soviet Officer
Ostrze na ostrze
Jacek Dydyński
The Last One Will Go to Hell
pasovský fendrich Hoff
Tender Spots
Oficer
The Centaurs
Nilson
Útek zo zlatej krajiny
Elam Harnish
An Unknown Friend
Bruno Linden
Soldiers of Freedom
Otto Skorzeny
Calling 07
Gryzboń's Bodyguard
Kazimierz Wielki
Spytek from Melsztyn
The Weddings of Ioan Assen
Knyaz Yuriy
The Deluge
Józwa Butrym
Possession
Apartment Owner
Copernicus
Color Bearer (uncredited)
Black Rusks
Tauriņdeja
Harijs Maurs
Aktorka
Kasjo
Das letzte Wort
Fatal Error
Hank Jackson
The Red Tent
Norwegian Radio Operator (uncredited)
Operation 'Trust'
Бирк
Operation 'Trust'
Birk
Wolves' Echoes
Piotr Słotwina
When Love Was a Crime
Denis Lenoir
On the Same Planet
Nobody Wanted to Die
Bronius
Time, Forward!
Thomas Bixby
Remember, Kaspar!
Early in the Morning
певец в ресторане
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin
Янсен, капитан яхты "Аризона"
The Lark
Obersturmbannfuhrer
A Shot in the Fog
Бинкль - атташе
Cottage in the Dunes
General and Daisies
Vladec Lekhovski
49 Days
Tēva zeme