Jüri Krjukov

Acting Sep 5, 1954 Oct 18, 1997 (aged 43) Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Harju County, Estonia]

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

29 Acting Credits

Jüri Krjukov

Acting

Breakfast on the Grass

All My Lenins

Colourful Dreams

Pisuhänd

Open Book

A Man Who Never Was

A Woman Heats the Sauna

Tom and Fluffy

Passenger from the 'Equator'

Karoliine's Silver Yarn

Cabbage Head

Prompter

Three Jolly Fellows

Fools of Fame

Lurich

Doubles

Three Jolly Fellows 2

Ball im Savoy

In the Time of the Law of the Wolf

The Boys of Wikman

American Mountains

Igihaljas vaatemäng

So long, Dracula!

In One Hundred Years in May