Jüri Krjukov
Known for: Acting
Born: September 4, 1954 in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Harju County, Estonia] - Died: October 17, 1997
Jüri Krjukov (September 5, 1954 – October 18, 1997) was an Estonian actor. Jüri Krjukov was born in Tallinn to Igor Krjukov, an engineer of Russian origin, and Maria Krjukov (née Pirson), who was Estonian. He had an older brother Oleg, seven years his senior. When he was six-months-old, his father died and his mother supported the family by working as a hairdresser. In 1968, aged fourteen, Krjukov made his film debut in a starring role as Ilmar, an Estonian boy in the Pioneer organization, in the Aleksandr Kurochkin directed Russian language children's film Passenger from the "Equator". After filming, he returned to his studies at the Tallinn Secondary School No. 7 (now, Tallinn English College), graduating in 1972. Afterwards, he enrolled at the Tallinn Conservatory to study acting under instructor Voldemar Panso, graduating in 1976. His is graduating classmates included: Merle Karusoo, Ago-Endrik Kerge, Urmas Kibuspuu, Kalju Orro, Anne Paluver, Külliki Tool, Lembit Peterson, Priit Pedajas, Eero Spriit, and Peeter Volkonski. His diploma production roles were as Kägu in August Kitzberg's Kosjasõit and Director in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author
Known for
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American Mountains
Doubles
Band Administrator
A Man Who Never Was
Imbi's uncle
A Woman Heats the Sauna
Moorits's Son
Igihaljas vaatemäng
self
Pisuhänd
Ludvig Sander
Passenger from the 'Equator'
Ilmar
Tom and Fluffy
Narrator (voice)
Three Jolly Fellows
Kingpool (voice)
All My Lenins
Bolshevik
Karoliine's Silver Yarn
Bandit
Prompter
Photographer
Three Jolly Fellows 2
Kingpool (voice)
Karlsson-on-the-Roof
Fille
Ball im Savoy
Mustafa
Fools of Fame
Salomon Vesipruul
So long, Dracula!
Narrator
Breakfast on the Grass
(voice) (uncredited)
In One Hundred Years in May
Viktor Kingisepp
Lurich
Lecturer
In the Time of the Law of the Wolf
Colourful Dreams
Rainbow (uncredited)
Cabbage Head
(voice)
The Warmest Month
Stas