Arno Suurorg

Arno Suurorg (born Arnold Friedrich Grossthal; 18 July 1903 – 3 January 1960) was an Estonian stage, film and radio actor and producer whose career spanned nearly forty years.

His mother Maria was the younger sister of writer A. H. Tammsaare, whose pentalogy Truth and Justice is considered one of the major works of 20th-century Estonian literature.

He made his film debut in the 1955 Estonian drama Jahid merel (English: Yachts at Sea); followed by the Herbert Rappaport directed Andruse õnn the same year.

His most prominent film role was that of the charchter Lindkvist in the 1959 drama Veealused karid, based on the Aadu Hint-penned play Kuhu lähed, seltsimees direktor?.

[5] In 1946, Arno Suurorg was awarded the Merited Artist of the Estonian SSR.