Arvo Lehesmaa
Acting
Biography
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Born: October 22, 1901
Place of Birth: Pori, Finland
Known For
Inspector Palmu's Error
A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
Kukonlaulusta kukonlauluun
A farm boy leaves his sweetheart Eliina and moves to the city for a relationship with Laila, a summer guest at the farm.
Köyhä laulaja
Sisters Irma and Airi Ranna's café Iltatähti has run into financial trouble. Touring musicians Heikki and Jussi end up as tenants in the same boarding house where the siblings and the poetic accountant live. Since the landlady does not allow music in her nursing home, the musicians practice at Iltatähti and revolutionize the life of the cafe.
Radio tekee murron
Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend Laakso. Things go awry when a gang of real criminals overhear their plans and book their heist to coincide. Teräsvuori gets caught but escapes from police custody to start his private investigations together with female radio colleague Eila.
Here, Beneath the North Star
Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story concentrates around a tenant farmer family, although it gives us a good look at the society at whole. While the class struggle depends, people of the village are driven to bloody civil war.
Ruma Elsa
The boyish, temperamental chemistry student Elsa Kassel disapproves of her mother and sisters running after men, but when she hears that she's referred to as "ugly Elsa", she takes on a transformation. The new, charming Elsa tests her attractiveness on men and causes confusion all the way to her mother's new groom, Professor Harjula.
The White Reindeer
A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.
"Minä elän"
The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.
Särkelä itte
The self-assured manager Julius Särkelä maintains strict discipline in his office and at home, which is experienced by his daughter Saara and her suitor Martti, as well as the landlord Heroja, who is chasing his debts, and even the cat belonging to the patron Fallsten. Dr. Kosonen softens the stern leader by giving a speech at a party, which ultimately revolutionizes Särkelä's worldview.
Aaltoska orkaniseeraa
Two children get involved in the adventure as the bustling caretaker Mrs. Aaltoska and crime reporter "Hawkeye" Lipponen start chasing the mysterious criminal league.
Filmography
as Jalmari Kolu
as Dr. Larsson
as Kultala
as Kosonen
as Henrik Kaski
as Albin Kämärä
as Gunnar Rygseck
as Juuso Tömstet
as Volmar
as Rafu Adler
as Korpinen
as Unto Karpio
as Adolf Sinimaa
as Dr. Brynolf Pihti (uncredited)
as Amadeus
as Juho Kustaala
as older gentleman
as Helge Huttunen
as Professor Örn
as Apteekkari
as Hallakoski
as Director
as Psykiatri
as Anttila
as Farmer of Halla
as Miljonääri (uncredited)
as Tsalkku-Nilla
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
as Oskari Karlio
as etsiväkomisario Heino
as Syylä
as Piukka
as Matti Modig
as Ranta
as Bernhard Lehmus
as Simo Piiroinen
as Leevi Allén
as Gagarin
as Evald Orasto
as (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Nobleman on a ferry
as Otto Parola
as Cobbler
as Taavi Harjula
as (uncredited)
as Juho Kukkonen
as tohtori Leander Tiburtus Puosu
as Frans Byman
as Leeni's Father
as Dr. Rantala
as Dr. Antti Kosonen
as Dr. Samuel Linde
as (uncredited)
as Doctor
as Bilkenroth
as (uncredited)
as Teppo
as Pinkerton (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Zeewick
as Perttula
as (uncredited)
as Tiuskanen
as Director Hölppänen
as (uncredited)
as Eero Puranen
as Vesanen (uncredited)