Jüri Järvet[a] (18 June 1919 – 5 July 1995, born Georgi Kuznetsov)[b] was an actor in Estonia and the Soviet Union.

[2] Järvet is best known in the West for the role of Dr. Snaut in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, but he played in numerous other films both in Russian and in his native Estonian.

Järvet played the title role in King Lear (1971) filmed on bleak landscapes in his native Estonia by Russian director Grigori Kozintsev and released in 1970.

Kozintsev shared the screenwriting credit with Boris Pasternak; the score was by Dmitri Shostakovich.

His son Jüri Järvet, Jr. [Wikidata] has also acted in several movies, including All My Lenins and Khrustalyov, My Car!.