- He was born in civil servants family. As child went to Riga where 1937-1940 attended 1st gymnasium. In 1947 started work in Rigas Kinostudija as director's assistant working with directors Yuli Raizman', Pavel Armand' and Leonids Leimanis.First work as director dates from 1959. In Soviet regime movies 'piedod Dzimtene' and 'Cetri balti krekli' where severely censured but Piejuras klimats forbidden and only 40 minutes of this film survived.
- IMDb mini biography by: Rudmatis
- In 1991, he produced Cilveka berns. The film was selected as the Latvian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards.
- He was also 'Inspector of the Theater Department of the Arts Administration' (1945-46).
- In 1980, his film 'Saruna ar karalieni' received the Latvian National Film Festival Prize for best documentary.
- With the premiere of the restored version of the feature film Ceplis at the Splendid Palace cinema in May 2017, director Rolandas Kalninsss 95th anniversary was solemnly celebrated, and a year later his feature film Four White Shirts was selected by the Cannes Festival as the best in world cinema history for the Cannes Classics program.
- He won Best Screenplay Award at the Chisinau Film Festival (1967) for his film "I Remember Everything, Richard".
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