Ants Lauter
Ants Lauter (5 July [O.S. 23 June] 1894 – 30 October 1973) was an Estonian actor, theatre director and pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1948). He was born in the parish of Velise within Veski, Wiek County, and died, aged 79, in Tallinn.[1]
Since 1974 the Ants Lauter Award has been given to a young stage actor or theatre director.[2]

Filmography
- 1924: Mineviku varjud as Kaljo, Olev's son
- 1936: VMV 6 as the captain of a smuggling vessel
- 1947: Life in the Citadel, episode
- 1951: Valgus Koordis
- 1955: Andruse õnn as Aruland
- 1956: The Rumyantsev Case
- 1958: Esimese järgu kapten
- 1959: Kutsumata külalised as Colonel Kikas
- 1964: Hamlet as the priest
- 1965: Mäeküla piimamees as Baron von Kremer
- 1968: Dead Season
- 1968: Far in the West as the grandfather
- 1968: Mehed ei nuta as the managing director
- 1969: Must nagu mina
- 1969: Posol Sovetskogo Soyuza
- 1969: Viimne reliikvia / The Last Relic as the old man
- 1970: King Lear, episode
- 1970: Kolme katku vahel as Mr. Henrik Claesson Horn
- 1970: Tuuline rand, episode
- 1970: Valge laev, episode
References
- ↑ "Eesti biograafiline andmebaas ISIK". www2.kirmus.ee. Retrieved 17 March 2026.
- ↑ "Ants Lauteri nimeline auhind". Eesti Teatriliit (in Estonian). Retrieved 17 March 2026.
External links
- Ants Lauter at IMDb
Categories:
- 1894 births
- 1973 deaths
- 20th-century Estonian male actors
- People from Märjamaa Parish
- People from the Governorate of Estonia
- Academic staff of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
- People's Artists of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
- People's Artists of the USSR
- Recipients of the Stalin Prize
- Recipients of the Estonian SSR State Prize
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Estonian male film actors
- Estonian male stage actors
- Soviet male film actors
- Soviet male stage actors
- Burials at Metsakalmistu
- Estonian actor stubs