Tõnu Aav

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-01-21 (80 years old)

Deathday

2019-08-14

Place of Birth

Tallinn, Estonia

Tõnu Aav

Biography

Tõnu Aav (January 21, 1939 – August 14, 2019) was an Estonian stage, film, TV, and radio actor. Aav was born in Tallinn and graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 1961. From 1961 he performed at the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn. He played in dozens of films and twenty screenplays and also recorded a number of radio play and audio CDs (including Uncle Remus stories and Alice in Wonderland) as well as a recurring role as Feliks Viss on the ETV dramatic series Õnne 13. From 1965 until 1974 Aav was married to actress Irja Aav (née Pilvet). The couple had two sons, music producer and conductor Lauri Aav and prop maker A...

Acting

1968

Liberation: The Fire Bulge

as German officer in a concentration camp

1997

All My Lenins

as German General

1994

The Firewater

as Border Guard in Finland

1964

The Lark

as German Pilot

1965

1993

Hysteria

as Sergei

1970

Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow

as German officer in a concentration camp

2005

1984

Lurich

as Grünberg

2013

The Gold Spinners

as Peedu Ojamaa (voice)

1967

Marianna

as Людвиг

1974

Bloody John

as Narrator

1972

Blood Stone

as Even More Belligerent Mayor

1970

Between Three Plagues

as Innkeeper (uncredited)

1979

Giufa

as (voice)

1986

The Gang

as prosecutor Farr

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