Ants Lauter (5 July [O.S. 23 June] 1894 – 30 October 1973) was an Estonian actor, theatre director and pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1948). He was born in the parish of Velise within Veski, Wiek County, and died, aged 79, in Tallinn.
Since 1974 the Ants Lauter Award has been given to a young stage actor or theatre director.
Filmography
1924: Mineviku varjud as Kaljo, Olev's son
1936: VMV 6 as the captain of a smuggling vessel
1947: Life in the Citadel, episode
1951: Valgus Koordis
1955: Andruse õnn as Aruland
1956: The Rumyantsev Case
1958: Esimese järgu kapten
1959: Kutsumata külalised as Colonel Kikas
1964: Hamlet as the priest
1965: Mäeküla piimamees as Baron von Kremer
1968: Dead Season
1968: Far in the West as the grandfather
1968: Mehed ei nuta as the managing director
1969: Must nagu mina
1969: Posol Sovetskogo Soyuza
1969: Viimne reliikvia / The Last Relic as the old man
1970: King Lear, episode
1970: Kolme katku vahel as Mr. Henrik Claesson Horn
1970: Tuuline rand, episode
1970: Valge laev, episode
