Kalju Komissarov
- Acting
- March 8, 1946 · Võru, Võru County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
- March 6, 2017
Biography
Kalju Komissarov (March 8, 1946 Võru – March 6, 2017) was an Estonian actor, theatre and film director, and theatre pedagogue. In 1968 he graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory. 1968-1974 he worked as a film director at Tallinnfilm. 1974-1986 he was the principal stage manager at Noorsooteater, and 1986-1988 at Ugala Theatre. 1986-1995 he was the head of Estonian Music and Theatre Academy's Higher Theatre School (Estonian: Eesti Muusikaakadeemia Kõrgem Lavakunstikool). In 2006 he was awarded with Order of the White Star, III class. Komissarov was married to actress and former Tallinn State Conservatory classmate Helle-Reet Helenurm from 1967 until 1971.
Known for
Filmography
- Father, Son and Holy Theatre
- Mindless · Mayor
- Kelgukoerad · Mati Kelk
- All My Lenins · Russian Gendarmerie Chief
- Grisha
- Who? What? How? A Story About the Third All-Union Festival of Youth Plays
- Marathon · Self
- The Ideal Landscape · District Committee Secretary
- Ask the Dead About the Price of Death · Investigator
- Hit Back
- An Unusual Story · Young investigator, Director
- Landing · Cowardly Tugboat Captain (uncredited)
- Forest Captain · Director
- Gladiator · (uncredited)
- The Lost Ones · Enn Alling, Director
- The Last Relic · Monk, Assistant Director
- Crucified Island
- Men in Soldier's Overcoats · Ferdinand Loog
- The Midday Ferry · Man in Moskvich
- Black Beard Wants to Know · First Assistant Director
- Supernova