Uldis Pūcītis

Uldis Pūcītis

Born: April 15, 1937
Died: December 14, 2000
Uldis Pūcītis (April 15, 1937 – December 14, 2000) was a Latvian television, theater and film actor, scriptwriter and film director.

Uldis Pūcītis was born in Ranka parish, Gulbene District to Jānis Pūcītis and his wife Anna Pūcīte. After graduating from school in Ranka he continued his studies in Riga and studied at the Latvian State Conservatory, graduating in 1959. Following his graduation, he worked as schoolteacher in the town of Aizpute for four years while engaged at the Liepāja Theater from 1960 to 1972, the Dailes Theater from 1964 to 1973 and the Youth Theatre from 1962 to 1964 and again from 1973 until 1992.

Pūcītis made his film debut in a small role as a fisherman in the 1959 Ada Neretniece-directed Latvian language Soviet film Svešiniece ciemā (English release title: Stranger in the Village) before his first starring role opposite Latvian actress Vija Artmane in the Leonīds Leimanis-directed period-drama Purva bridējs, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Latvian writer Rūdolfs Blaumanis. He would go on to appear in a number of film and television roles throughout the 1960s and into the 1990s, as well as continuing his stage career.

In 1998, Pūcītis would write the script and co-direct the television mini-series Izpostītā ligzda for Latvijas Televīzija (LTV) with Armands Zvirbulis. The film and both Zvirbulis and Pūcītis would be awarded the Lielais Kristaps; the highest prize awarded for Latvian cinema.

Pūcītis was married to Olīvija Pūcīte (née Poselanova). Their daughter is actress Milēna Gulbe-Kavace, and grandson is professional tennis player Ernests Gulbis. In late 2000, Pūcītis fell ill at his summer home in Jūrmala. After being taken to the hospital in Riga, he was initially diagnosed with a stomach ulcer. However, he died in hospital of a pulmonary embolism and was buried at the Riga Forest Cemetery.

Movies for Uldis Pūcītis...

Maija and Paija
Title: Maija and Paija
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Fairytale of the the good girl and the bad girl, who gets the prince?
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Ibsen's Motif
Title: Ibsen's Motif
Released: September 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A meditation on Henrik Ibsen's plays "Brand" and "Peer Gynt".
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Short Tutorial on Loving
Title: Short Tutorial on Loving
Character: Vējš
Released: July 13, 1982
Type: Movie
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Laikmetu griežos
Title: Laikmetu griežos
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A film based on novels by Latvian writer Andrejs Upīts tells a story about Latvian peasants around the 16th/17th century when they were under the role of several other countries.
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Brothers Rico
Title: Brothers Rico
Character: Marco Feliche
Released: May 4, 1980
Type: Movie
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Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
Title: Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
Character: Insp. Peter Glebsky
Released: August 27, 1979
Type: Movie
The police get a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them off from the rest of the world and strange things start happening.
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Special forces unit
Title: Special forces unit
Released: June 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Intelligence-diversionary group of athletes who know how to shoot snipers, run, jump, feel free in the water and under water, to withstand the monstrous load of hand-to-hand fights, will be able to reach the goal only going together, passing the task as a relay. Seven of them. Among them is a girl swimmer. It will be the most difficult, the last stage of the journey. The plot is based on the real facts of the great Patriotic war.
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Reflection in the Water
Title: Reflection in the Water
Character: Zigurds
Released: January 3, 1977
Type: Movie
Based on a story by Janis Lapsa, written by Janis Lapsa and Andris Kolbergs, film is a singular work, filled with human warmth. It is a story about a talented surgeon Markalns, who after a serious personal crisis, returns to his native town in order to start his life anew. The attention is concentrated on the inner world of Markalns, his feelings in this so important period of his life, when to endure and to proceed means to regain the lost sense of life and himself. His character and emotional world opens in a wide scale: in collisions with colleagues, patients, friends, himself. He is contradictory, but even in moments of low spirits, virile. A real warmth and balance of mind is brought in the life of the outwardly robust and clumsy surgeon by a shy small-town girl Irita, called Doggie.
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To Be Unwanted
Title: To Be Unwanted
Character: Petak
Released: December 21, 1976
Type: Movie
Voldis Viters is released after seven years in prison. He is 46 years old and has no family or job. Some of his old friends have abandoned the life of crime, and policeman Leo Aleksandrs, as well as the beautiful taxi driver Irēna, try to persuade Voldis to forget the past and move on. But when the crime boss Teksis proposes a plan to rob a jewelry store, Voldis agrees, thinking this will be his last crime before starting a new life. Marking the pinnacle of its director's filmography, To Be Unwanted is a psychological drama that centers not on a single crime or its investigation but on the emotional collapse of the criminal as he realizes that his amoral lifestyle has rendered him redundant within society.
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Keys to Paradise
Title: Keys to Paradise
Character: Yanis Krastins
Released: July 12, 1975
Type: Movie
Successful work and life of a brave militia captain who does not know much about human psychology.
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Title: Born of Revolution
Character: Степан Петрович Сергеев (сотрудник комитета революционной охраны (эпизод приёма Кондратьева в партию)
Released: November 10, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: Born of Revolution
Character: Степан Петрович Сергеев (сотрудник комитета революционной охраны)
Released: November 10, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: Born of Revolution
Character: Степан Петрович Сергеев
Released: November 10, 1974
Type: TV
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Light at the End of the Tunnel
Title: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Character: Jānis
Released: October 19, 1974
Type: Movie
A load of gold is stolen. Detectives make criminals play by their rules.
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Siberian Grandfather
Title: Siberian Grandfather
Character: Strodi
Released: February 10, 1974
Type: Movie
Story about one of the leaders of the partisan movement Nestor Kalandarishvili during Russian Civil War in Siberia.
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Landing
Title: Landing
Character: Rein
Released: January 2, 1973
Type: Movie
Reet loves her long-distance coxswain husband Reinu, but the long separations have tortured her. It seems to her that the man cares more about his work than about her. Rein really loves his work, but his wife just as passionately. He does not understand how loneliness can overwhelm Reet, when women have always been waiting for men from far away. Their family friend Mart loves Reet and cannot see her suffer. It is in Marti's power to offer Reet a safe life, and the woman plagued by internal struggles makes a choice, but happiness seems to slip even further away.
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Meldru mežs
Title: Meldru mežs
Released: December 13, 1971
Type: Movie
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Белая земля
Title: Белая земля
Character: Johann Ritter
Released: August 21, 1971
Type: Movie
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The Risk
Title: The Risk
Released: March 8, 1971
Type: Movie
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The Experiment of Dr. Abst
Title: The Experiment of Dr. Abst
Released: December 8, 1968
Type: Movie
During WWII Red Army sailor suddenly gets to German underwater swimmers secret base...
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When Rain and Wind Hit Against Your Window
Title: When Rain and Wind Hit Against Your Window
Released: December 18, 1967
Type: Movie
The Second World War has just ended, but national partisans are still hiding in Latvia's forests and fighting against the Soviet regime. Ansis Leinasars, who has been tasked to spark a coup in Latvia, arrives by night from across the sea, but his work is hampered at every step. His last hope is a meeting with the partisans in a church...
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Captain Enrico’s Watch
Title: Captain Enrico’s Watch
Released: November 16, 1967
Type: Movie
A young boy finds a watch with an engraving in Spanish saying that the watch belongs to Captain Enrico, and adventures begin...
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Four White Shirts
Title: Four White Shirts
Character: Cēzars
Released: January 4, 1967
Type: Movie
Cezars Kalnins installs telephones by day and composes pop songs by night. His band has a hard time receiving the permit from Soviet censorship authorities for a public debut. A member of the Culture Committee superficially listens to Cēzars' songs and deems the lyrics "unsuitable and frivolous” and "unfit for the Soviet youth”, and is later powerless to stop the grindstone of public debate, which she has herself initiated.
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The Swamp Wader
Title: The Swamp Wader
Character: Edgars
Released: July 13, 1966
Type: Movie
In this film, set in Latvia in the late 19th century, Edgars, the coachman of Alaine Manor, loves Kristine, the washerwoman's daughter, although he is too hot-headed for Kristine's mother to consider him a good suitor for his daughter. The servant Viskrelis and stable boy Sutka try to tempt Edgars to a life of drinking and a relationship with the barmaid Matilde. Meanwhile, Kristine is courted by the rich land owner, Akmentins.
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Akmens un šķembas
Title: Akmens un šķembas
Character: Alfons
Released: January 3, 1966
Type: Movie
During World War II three best friends are mobilized into the Waffen-SS Latvian Legion. Years later their fates continue to intertwine, as memories of war loom in back of their minds.
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Tobago Changes Course
Title: Tobago Changes Course
Released: November 26, 1965
Type: Movie
Summer, 1940. Foreseeing the collapse of the Ulmanis regime, the owner of a ship sailing off the coast of Latvia decides to flee the country. Subsequently, the sailors learn about the establishment of Soviet power in their homeland, and the ship changes course...
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Autumn is Still Far Away
Title: Autumn is Still Far Away
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A young girl is puzzled when she has to choose a husband. She cannot decide whether to marry her childhood friend or a recently met nouveau riche.