---
name: "Jüri Lumiste"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/juri-lumiste"
fi1m_id: "juri-lumiste"
imdb_id: "nm2496074"
tmdb_id: 1148739
wikidata_id: "Q16407137"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 July 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:20:18.298484+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jüri Lumiste

## Identity

Jüri Lumiste

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/juri-lumiste
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** juri-lumiste
- **IMDb ID:** nm2496074
- **TMDB ID:** 1148739
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16407137
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16407137, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2496074/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1148739

Actor. Born 16 July 1957 in Tartu, Tartu District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tartu County, Estonia].

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 July 1957, Tartu, Tartu District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Tartu County, Estonia]
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16407137, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2496074/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1148739

## Biography

Jüri Lumiste is an Estonian actor and theatre director. He was born on 16 July 1957 in Tartu.

Lumiste completed secondary education in Tartu in 1975 and briefly studied mathematics at Tartu State University. He trained at the Hermaküla studio, graduating in 1979, and participated in workshops in Russia, Turkey, Finland, Denmark, Japan and Germany. From 1993 to 1999 he served as drama director of the Vanemuine Theatre in Tartu.

His screen credits include the role of Obersturmführer in Elem Klimov's *Come and See* (1985), as well as appearances in Estonian television series and films such as *Kättemaksukontor* and *Kelgukoerad*.

*Sources: imdb.com, et.wikipedia.org, wikidata.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Come and See* (1985), Fi1m 92, as Obersturmführer — [page](https://film.one/film/come-and-see.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Uka-Uka* (2026), as Grandfather (voice)
- *The Legend of Pitka* (2023), as British Captain Bertram Thesiger
- *Stairway to Heaven* (2023), as Pastor
- *Fools of Fame* (2023), as Editor
- *Love Is Blind* (2013), as Oncologist
- *Demons* (2012), as Joko's Father
- *Legend of the Lake Bodom* (2006), as Boris
- *The Curse of the Werewolf* (2005), as Master
- *Come and See* (1985), as Obersturmführer — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/come-and-see.md)

## Gallery

- ![Jüri Lumiste](https://film.one/media/person/103719/gallery-887b9c469d61.jpg) Jüri Lumiste — Image via TMDB
- ![Jüri Lumiste](https://film.one/media/person/103719/gallery-6050e7405b5f.jpg) Jüri Lumiste — Image via TMDB
- ![Jüri Lumiste](https://film.one/media/person/103719/gallery-5ece1c119c16.jpg) Jüri Lumiste — Image via TMDB

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