About

Known credits:
47
Birthday:
1922-09-11
Place of birth:
Kohtla-Järve, Ida-Viru County, Estonia
Website:
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Heino Mandri

Overview

Heino Mandri (September 11, 1922 – December 3, 1990) was an Estonian film and stage actor.

Heino Mandri was born in Kohtla-Järve, but his family moved to Tallinn when Mandri was two years old. In 1946, Mandri graduated in the only class of the short-lived Tallinn Theatre School (1942–1946) set up during the German occupation to carry on the work of the former State School of Performing Arts which had been liquidated during the Soviet occupation in 1940.

In 1948, Mandri was accused in anti-Soviet activities and sentenced for seven years of forced labor. From 1948 to 1954 he served the sentence in the Viatlag prison camp, Lesnoy, Kirov Oblast in Northern Russia.

Mandri was released in 1954 and returned to Estonia, where the Soviet authorities forbade him to get closer than 101 km to Tallinn under the 101st kilometre rule. Mandri settled in Viljandi and worked in Ugala theatre. In 1956 Mandri wrote a personal letter to the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Kliment Voroshilov, after which he got his sentence retroactively shortened to five years allowing him to enter Tallinn again.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Heino Mandri casually appeared on Estonian national TV delivering his lines with impeccable command of the Estonian language. In Soviet films, Heino Mandri was usually cast as characters who were officers of the Wehrmacht, German businessmen, or American spies.

Heino Mandri was acquitted of all political charges and fully rehabilitated in his rights only shortly before his death in 1990.

Known for

Acting
2008 Nazis and Blondes Actor (archive footage) 58
Average
1991 Surmatants Actor N/A
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1990 Entrance to Labyrinth Actor Zigmund Khyutter 58
Average
1989 Faulty Brides Actor Mart N/A
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1989 Doctor Stockmann Actor Aslaksen 58
Average
1989 I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here Actor Mart's Father 58
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1988 Dance Around the Steam Boiler Actor 58
Average
1988 Bay of Happiness Actor N/A
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1987 In One Hundred Years in May Actor President of the Court Martial N/A
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1987 The Joys of Midlife Actor Uncle Raul 58
Average
1986 Chicherin Actor (as H. Mandri) N/A
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1986 The Secret Agent’s End Actor King 58
Average
1986 Hundiseaduse aegu Actor 58
Average
1985 The R Document Actor N/A
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1984 European Story Actor N/A
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1984 Russia Is Young Actor граф Пипер 69
Fair
1982 Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter Actor Warship Captain 58
Average
1981 Murder on the 31st Floor Actor first director of the concern 58
Average
1981 Rowan Gates Actor Lembit N/A
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1979 A Woman Heats the Sauna Actor Moorits 58
Average
1978 The Pastor of Reigi Actor Judge N/A
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1977 Time to Live, Time to Love Actor N/A
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1976 Port Actor N/A
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1976 Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat Actor Iurla 58
Average
1976 Indrek Actor Timusk N/A
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1975 The Red Violin Actor N/A
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1974 Spring in the Forest Actor Forester 58
Average
1974 Inimeste maja Actor Narrator N/A
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1973 Fire in the Night Actor 58
Average
1972 Forest Captain Actor Accordion 58
Average
1971 Lack of Wind Actor Chairman of the Collective Farm 58
Average
1971 Summer Games of Insects Actor Head Referee (voice) N/A
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1971 Pedestrians Actor Narrator 59
Average
1970 Between Three Plagues Actor Topff 58
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1969 A Tale of a Chekist Actor Jundt N/A
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1969 Liberation: Breakthrough Actor German Officer 59
Average
1968 The Dead Season Actor 58
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1968 Liberation: The Fire Bulge Actor 59
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1967 Exploded Hell Actor N/A
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1967 What Happened To Andres Lapeteus? Actor Põdrus 58
Average
1966 Supernova Actor Paalmann N/A
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1965 The New Devil of Hellsbottom Actor Reverend 58
Average
1965 We Were Eighteen Actor Trossi 58
Average
1964 The Lark Actor Standartenfuhrer 58
Average
1963 Hills Like White Elephants Actor N/A
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1959 Uninvited Guests Actor 58
Average
1957 Pöördel Actor N/A
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