Arno Suurorg (born Arnold Friedrich Grossthal; 18 July 1903 – 3 January 1960) was an

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n stage, film and radio actor and producer whose career spanned nearly forty years.

Biography

Early life

Suurorg was born in Piirsalu, he was the eldest of two children born to Jüri Grossthal and Maria Hansen; his younger sister Helmi was born in 1908. The family would later change their surname to the more

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Suurorg when the children were young. His mother Maria was the younger sister of writer

A. H. Tammsaare Anton Hansen (18 (O.S.)/30 January 1878 – 1 March 1940), better known by his pseudonym A. H. Tammsaare and its variants, was an Estonian writer whose pentalogy '' Truth and Justice'' (''Tõde ja õigus''; 1926–1933) is considered one of t ...

, whose pentalogy '' Truth and Justice'' is considered one of the major works of 20th-century Estonian literature.

Career

Beginning in 1922, Suurorg would spend nearly forty years performing at the

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and would also produce a number of plays at the theatre. He would also appear in a number of radio plays. Aside from theatre and radio, Suurorg appeared in a number of films. He made his film debut in the 1955 Estonian drama ''Jahid merel'' (English: ''Yachts at Sea''); followed by the Herbert Rappaport directed ''Andruse õnn'' the same year. His most prominent film role was that of the charchter Lindkvist in the 1959 drama ''Veealused karid'', based on the Aadu Hint-penned play ''Kuhu lähed, seltsimees direktor?''.

Death

Arno Suurorg died on 3 January 1960 in Tallinn at age 56.

Acknowledgements

In 1946, Arno Suurorg was awarded the Merited Artist of the Estonian SSR.Sirp ja Vasar
nr. 29, 20 July 1946. Retrieved 28 November 2016.

References

External links

* *Photograph of Arno Suurorg a
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*1958 Portrait of Arno Suurorg painted by Roman Treumann a
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Suurorg, Arno 1903 births 1960 deaths People from Lääne-Nigula Parish People from Kreis Wiek Estonian male stage actors Estonian male film actors 20th-century Estonian male actors Honoured Artists of the Estonian SSR