
Birthday:
04-29-1893
Deathday:
08-27-1953 (60 years)
Birthplace:
Helsinki, Finland
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Herrat täysihoidossa
Act like Police Officer
event1933 star_border 4
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Poor high school students Toivo Päiviö and Unto Uramo solve their housing problems by enrolling in Sofia Andersson's boarding school. Toivo falls in love with Mrs. Andersson's deceased husband's niece, Aune, and begins to compete for her attention with opera singer Reino "Toreadoor" Kiljunen.
Yrjänän emännän synti
Act like Iisakki
event1943 star_border 5
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Yrjänä's farm is plagued by infertility and the lady of the house decides to get a child by any means to continue her famous family. She's in conflict with her husband and with the church.
SF-paraati
Act like Toppo Tatti
event1940 star_border 5
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A love story between a taxi driver and a travel guide in the form of a musical.
Kalle Aaltosen morsian
Act like Captain
event1948 star_border 2
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The S/S Vellamo heads to Alexandria with Kaarina, the daughter of the ship's owner Hallerman, on board. As Kaarina trades places with the family's housekeeper Marja, first mate Yrjö takes a liking to Marja whom he believes to be miss Hallerman. Meanwhile Kaarina, pretending to be a member of the cleaning staff, starts getting close with lower ranking officer Kalle Aaltonen.
Kaikkien naisten monni
Act like August Kontunen
event1952 star_border 6
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The military farce, directed by Lasse Pöysti, is based on Joel Laikka's novel. The illiterate Nieminen (Pöysti), who starts his military service through mischief and being tempted by other rookies, causes confusion in the barracks. At the behest of colonel (Paavo Jännes), attempts are made to teach him in different ways - the women of the locality are also interested in teaching. Soon Nieminen will be the competing with sergeant major Vasikainen (Reino Valkama) for the affections of the colonel's cook Vieno (Toini Vartiainen).
Tukkijoella
Act like Heikki Tolari
event1937
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Second adaptation of Teuvo Pakkala's popular play about Finnish lumberjacks.
Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu
Act like Pätkä
event1940
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A poet finds a new muse in young woman.
Kulkurin valssi
Act like Julius Meyer
event1941 star_border 5
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St.Petersburg, 1830. An arrogant Finnish baron is playing cards with a Russian officer. Needless to say, the Finn wins and the Russian gets extremely annoyed. The situation is not helped by the fact that the baron has been seeing a girl that the Russian officer has also set his eyes on. They decide to have a duel and after the Finn wins fair and square, he has to escape because the untrustworthy Russians are after him.
Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina
Act like Heikki Vasara
event1941 star_border 3.7
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At the eve of Crimean war orphaned Regina lives with her grandmother in a small cabin near a lavish villa. As the summer approaches there is great anticipation of a big ball to be held.
On lautalla pienoinen kahvila
Act like (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 2
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Journalist Sanni visits the countryside to write about the timber industry. Looking for a room she is immediately thrust into the merry community of loggers, always up for a song, but one of them, Hurma-Jussi, is a little too persistent. Luckily, she is “saved” by the handsome lumberjack Eräs.
Miesmalli
Act like Johansson
event1944 star_border 4
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A romantic comedy about a writer coming back to Finland is bored with the High Society life and starts a modeling job for a young and beautiful painter Ilona. Dressed as a vagabond, he soon starts to please Ilona and her many lady friends as shows quick learning skills and soon shows great knowledge of history, art, and literature.
Yhden yön hinta
Act like (uncredited)
event1952 star_border 6
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The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.
Minä ja ministeri
Act like Hymynen
event1934
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The rambunctious Priscilla Paukkaja breaks into the home of Foreign Ministry official Raimo Vehar and his girlfriend Marja and appoints herself the couple's new housekeeper. Tomera Priscilla controls both the finances of the Veharites and the foreign minister Hirvimaan himself.
Mies Marseillesta
Act like Pjotr
event1937
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1937 Finnish comedy.
Onnellinen ministeri
Act like Bruno Benjamin Blomster
event1941 star_border 5
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An artist bases a painting for a revealing lingerie ad on a photo of a girl he had found torn from a magazine, not knowing that the girl is in fact the daughter of the Finnish minister of finance. A scandal is about to erupt, and the artist is given 48 hours to find a strikingly similar-looking female model who could serve as his alibi. The minister's daughter decides to fool the artist by pretending to be a lowly girl of the streets, whom the artist then recruits as his "model".
Loviisa – Niskavuoren nuori emäntä
Act like Karl Johan
event1946 star_border 5.4
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Strong women take care of the property while the men focus on chasing women.
Valkoiset ruusut
Act like Antti Koskela
event1943 star_border 5.4
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Set in turn of the century Helsinki, author Arvo Helavalla's novel makes an indelible impression on adolescent Auli Ranta. She idolizes the author of a work that can never be forgotten.
Nainen on valttia
Act like Janitor
event1944 star_border 5
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A famous operette star Kirsti Kalpa escapes her busy and selfish fiance and hides as maid to house of 3 bachelors ( professor, composer and butler) , who basically hate women.
Helmikuun manifesti
Act like Seyn
event1939 star_border 5
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February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.
Seitsemän veljestä
event1939 star_border 6
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Based on a novel by Aleksis Kivi. Follows the story of seven brothers of Jukola in 19th century Finland.
Nummisuutarit
Act like Sakeri
event1938
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In the comedy set in Etelä-Hämee in the middle of the 19th century, Esko, the son of a cobbler, goes with the speaker Mikko Vilkastu to find a bride for himself from Karri's adopted daughter, Crete. However, not everything goes according to plan.
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