
Heino Mandri
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1922-09-11
Day of Death
1990-12-03 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Kohtla-Järve, Estonia
Heino Mandri
Biography
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
as (archive footage)
(1991)
(1990)
Entrance to Labyrinth
as Zigmund Khyutter
(1989)
Doctor Stockmann
as Aslaksen
(1989)
Faulty Brides
as Mart
(1989)
I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here
as Mart's Father
(1988)
(1988)
(1987)
The Joys of Midlife
as Uncle Raul
(1987)
In One Hundred Years in May
as President of the Court Martial
(1986)
The Secret Agent’s End
as King
(1986)
Chicherin
as (as H. Mandri)
(1986)
(1984)
(1982)
Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter
as Warship Captain
(1981)
Murder on the 31st Floor
as first director of the concern
(1981)
Mercedes Runs Away from the Chase
as Abt, German Colonel
(1981)
Rowan Gates
as Lembit
(1979)
A Woman Heats the Sauna
as Moorits
(1978)
The Pastor of Reigi
as Judge
(1977)
(1976)
(1976)
Indrek
as Timusk
(1975)
(1974)
Spring in the Forest
as Forester
(1974)
Inimeste maja
as Narrator
(1973)
(1972)
Forest Captain
as Accordion
(1971)
Lack of Wind
as Chairman of the Collective Farm
(1971)
Summer Games of Insects
as Head Referee (voice)
(1971)
Pedestrians
as Narrator
(1970)
Between Three Plagues
as Topff
(1969)
Liberation: The Break Through
as German Officer
(1969)
A Tale of a Chekist
as Jundt
(1968)
(1968)
(1967)
(1967)
What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?
as Põdrus
(1966)
Supernova
as Paalmann
(1965)
The New Devil of Hellsbottom
as Reverend
(1965)
We Were Eighteen
as Trossi
(1964)
The Lark
as Standartenfuhrer
(1963)
(1959)
(1957)