Elmar Salulaht

Elmar Salulaht

1910-04-17 – 1974-10-07 (age 64) Dorpat, Dorpat County, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire [now Tartu, Tartu County, Estonia]
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Biography

Elmar Salulaht (until 1937 Elmar Soop; April 17, 1910 Tartu – October 7, 1974 Tartu) was an Estonian actor and opera singer (bass).

From 1923 to 1936 he worked as a metalworker. He studied singing with Georg Stahlberg. From 1936 to 1939 he was a singer and actor at the Vanemuine theatre in Tartu and from 1939 to 1940 at the Narva Theatre. From 1942 to 1943 he was an actor at the Estonian Theatre and from 1943 to 1974, he returned to the at the Vanemuine.

Besides stage roles he also appeared as an actor on films: he played the lead role the feature film Põrgupõhja uus Vanapagan (1964). Salulaht is buried in Rahumäe cemetery.

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Known For

Landing
Lack of Wind
Lack of Wind

1971

as Disabled Man

The Midday Ferry
The Midday Ferry

1967

as Man in the Bus

The New Devil of Hellsbottom
Between Three Plagues
Between Three Plagues

1970

as One Eye