
Tõnu Aav
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1939-01-21
Day of Death
2019-08-14 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now 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 Ardi Aav.
Known For
Acting
(2013)
The Gold Spinners
as Peedu Ojamaa (voice)
(2008)
Nazis and Blondes
as Self
(2006)
Visit of an Old Lady
as Koby
(2005)
Old Men's Paradise
as Manivald
(1997)
All My Lenins
as German General
(1994)
The Firewater
as Border Guard in Finland
(1993)
Tear of the Prince of Darkness
as Innkeeper
(1993)
Hysteria
as Sergei
(1992)
(1991)
(1985)
The Gang
as Prosecutor Farr
(1985)
(1984)
Lurich
as Grünberg
(1979)
Giufa
as (voice)
(1974)
Bloody John
as Narrator
(1973)
(1972)
(1972)
Blood Stone
as Even More Belligerent Mayor
(1971)
(1970)
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
as German officer in a concentration camp
(1970)
Liberation: The Fire Bulge
as German officer in a concentration camp
(1970)
Between Three Plagues
as Innkeeper (uncredited)
(1967)
Letters from the Island of the Insane
as Ervin Räim
(1967)
Marianna
as Людвиг
(1966)
(1965)
We Were Eighteen
as Eerik
(1964)
The Lark
as German Pilot
(1962)
(1960)