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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-10-03

Place of Birth

Bauska, Latvian Republic

Uldis Dumpis

Biography

Uldis Dumpis (born October 3, 1943, in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian stage, film, and television actor, as well as a poet and translator. He has been a member of the Dailes Theatre since 1962 and has appeared in many Latvian and Soviet films, including The Long Road in the Dunes, The Fisherman’s Son, and Dangerous Summer. Dumpis is regarded as one of Latvia’s most recognizable actors, known for his warm and intelligent on-screen presence.

Known for

Long Road in the Dunes

Long Road in the Dunes

The action of the film takes place in Latvia and spans the period from 1939 to the early 1970s. The events that occurred in the country had various effects on the fates of the characters. But throughout it all, love guided them — it scattered and gathered, made them suffer terribly, and made them the happiest people in the world...

Emil's Mischiefs

Emil's Mischiefs

Young Emil lives with his parents and younger sister on a small farm. Emil's kindness and energy make him interfere with everything around him, but the results are usually not what he intended.

Keys to Paradise

Keys to Paradise

Successful work and life of a brave militia captain who does not know much about human psychology.

To Be Unwanted

To Be Unwanted

Valdemārs '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.

Dangerous Summer

Dangerous Summer

A historical drama about an attempt to steal the entire Latvian national wealth deposited abroad by Wilhelms Munters, the Latvian Foreign Minister in the forties.

FireSin

FireSin

Light at the End of the Tunnel

Light at the End of the Tunnel

A load of gold is stolen. Detectives make criminals play by their rules.

Mainai

Mainai

Feature film based on a short story by Yuri Trifonov.

Crime Solving For Beginners

Crime Solving For Beginners

On May 4th 1994, the 4th anniversary of Latvia’s splintering from the Soviet Union, rookie police investigator Aldis Karklins is tasked with solving the murder of Natalia Nolle, an influental behind-the-scenes political figure. The trail leads the 23-year-old Aldis in to the underbelly of organized crime and KGB conspiracies that outlive the Soviot Union. A miniseries in seven episodes, based on the novel "Don't Call Me, Don't Look for me! Life of Soviet Secret Agent" (Meklējiet sievieti) by acclaimed Latvian crime fiction writer Andris Kolbergs.

Rally

Rally

During an international rally two contestants find a hidden painting in the door of their car. In order to not get removed from the track riders do not report to their team management.

Strange Moonlight

Strange Moonlight

Reflection in the Water

Reflection in the Water

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.

Blow, Wind!

Blow, Wind!

Based on a stage play of the same name by the one of the biggest names in the history of Latvian literature Rainis, "Put, vejini" tells a story of an unconventional love that blossoms between the handsome, wealthy and impetuous merchant Uldis and the timid, humble and clear-hearted orphan Baiba.

Christmas Huddle

Christmas Huddle

The story of Cīrulīši - a tight-knit family down on their luck, and their trials and tribulations during the Christmas season.

Secret Fairway

Secret Fairway

Year 1944 ... Year breakthrough victorious in World War II, but in the Baltic theater of naval battles yet quiet. The line of duty, the commander of a torpedo boat Boris Shubin accidentally discovers a secret German submarine fairway unmarked. An emergency throws it on the "Flying Dutchman" and makes it possible to lift the veil of the strictest secrecy of the Third Reich, which surrounds it ...