Arnis Līcītis (8 January 1946 – 21 January 2022) was a Latvian actor.

Life and career

Born in

Riga Riga ( ) is the capital, Primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Latvia, largest city of Latvia. Home to 591,882 inhabitants (as of 2025), the city accounts for a third of Latvia's total population. The population of Riga Planni ...

in 1946, Līcītis was the son of actors and Helga Līcīte. He attended secondary school at Riga State Gymnasium No.1 and subsequently graduated from the

Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music (), formerly the Riga Conservatory, is a higher music conservatory in Riga, Latvia. The junior institute is the Emīls Dārziņš Music School. History The Latvian Conservatory of Music was founded in ...

. He became an actor in the troupes of the

Latvian National Theatre The Latvian National Theatre () is one of the leading professional theatres in Latvia. The building is in the eclectic style and is an architectural and artistic monument. The country of Latvia was proclaimed in this building in the year 1918. O ...

, the Valmiera Drama Theatre, the , and the Riga Russian Theatre. He then began working for the Riga Film Studio in 1965. Līcītis died on 21 January 2022, at the age of 76.

Filmography

*' (1965) *' (1968) *' (1972) *' (1974) *'' The Favorite'' (1976) *' (1980) *'' Long Road in the Dunes'' (1981) *' (1983) *' (1984) *' (1984) *' (1988) *'' Barons of Crime'' (1988) *' (1991) *''

Musketeers Twenty Years After ''Musketeers Twenty Years After'' (, translit. ''Mushketeri dvadsat' let spustya'') is a four-episode Russian musical film directed by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich based on Alexandre Dumas' 1845 novel '' Twenty Years After''. Filming began ...

'' (1992) *'' Dangerous Summer'' (2000)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Līcītis, Arnis 1946 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Latvian male actors Soviet male film actors Latvian male film actors Latvian Academy of Music alumni Male actors from Riga