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Bruno O'Ya
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
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 Hoffma…
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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.
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2008
Nazis and Blondes
Movie (archive footage)
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1988
Mr. Blot in Space
Movie
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1987
Rykowisko
Movie senator Mickey Caposta
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1986
Przyłbice i kaptury
TV show
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1986
Na całość
Movie Skandynaw
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1985
Przyśpieszenie
Movie Father Christmas
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1984
Wedle wyroków twoich...
Movie chłop Pietrek
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1983
Heads Full of Stars
Movie Soviet Officer
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1983
Ostrze na ostrze
Movie Jacek Dydyński
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1982
The Last One Will Go to Hell
Movie pasovský fendrich Hoff
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1981
Tender Spots
Movie Oficer
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1979
The Centaurs
Movie Nilson
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1979
Útek zo zlatej krajiny
TV show Elam Harnish
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1978
An Unknown Friend
Movie Bruno Linden
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1977
Soldiers of Freedom
TV show Otto Skorzeny
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1976
Calling 07
TV show Gryzboń's Bodyguard
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1976
Kazimierz Wielki
Movie Spytek from Melsztyn
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1975
The Weddings of Ioan Assen
Movie Knyaz Yuriy
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1974
The Deluge
Movie Józwa Butrym
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1973
Possession
Movie Apartment Owner
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1973
Copernicus
Movie Color Bearer (uncredited)
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1972
Black Rusks
Movie
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1972
Tauriņdeja
Movie Harijs Maurs
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1971
Aktorka
Movie Kasjo
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1971
Das letzte Wort
Movie
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1970
Fatal Error
Movie Hank Jackson
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1969
The Red Tent
Movie Norwegian Radio Operator (uncredited)
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1968
Operation 'Trust'
TV show Бирк
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1968
Operation 'Trust'
Movie Birk
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1968
Wolves' Echoes
Movie Piotr Słotwina
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1968
When Love Was a Crime
Movie Denis Lenoir
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1966
On the Same Planet
Movie
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1966
Nobody Wanted to Die
Movie Bronius
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1965
Time, Forward!
Movie Thomas Bixby
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1965
Remember, Kaspar!
Movie
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1965
Early in the Morning
Movie певец в ресторане
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1965
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin
Movie Янсен, капитан яхты "Аризона"
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1964
The Lark
Movie Obersturmbannfuhrer
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1964
A Shot in the Fog
Movie Бинкль - атташе
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1963
Cottage in the Dunes
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