Eino Kaipainen
Acting
Biography
Eino Herman Kaipainen (December 2, 1899, Jäppilä, Southern Savo - January 31, 1995 Helsinki) was a Finnish actor. Kaipainen was originally a police commissioner in Kotka. He was one of the best-known film actors in Finnish films from the 1930s to the 1970s. Kaipainen was an actor at the Finnish National Theater in 1937–1944 and an actor at the Helsinki City Theater in 1945–1965. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born: December 2, 1899
Place of Birth: Jäppilä, Finland
Known For
Varsovan laulu
A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.
The Unknown Soldier
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.
Vaarallista vapautta
Nurse Sinikka wants to help a prisoner who crosses the border from the Soviet Union. She and her fiancé plan a flight via Finland with the help of her mother. Ruth the girlfriend of Sinikka's brother happens to witness the escape, which puts them all in danger.
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.
Pinsiön parooni
The municipal council of Pinsiö tries to get Taavetti, the 'baron of Pinsiö', to move into a retirement home. However, the baron refuses and flees to Tampere to stay with his nephew Heikki and his wife Liisa. Heikki and his family dream of building their own house, but obtaining a mortgage loan is difficult. Their financial worries deepen when Heikki, as a union representative, has to deal with a strike at his workplace and illegal work practices.
Halveksittu
Merchant Iivari encounters significant challenges in his entrepreneurial career when Merthen, a commercial counselor, attempts to prevent his success. Merthen's daughter Verna falls in love with the honest Iivari, who is not acceptable as a son-in-law to the Merthen family.
Akseli and Elina
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
The Bridal Wreath
A story about an upper-class student and a poor servant girl who fall in love despite everyone being against it.
Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi
Wager is Count Mauritz Armborg, the young master of the estate. Linnanheimo plays Katariina (Catherine) the nanny to Mauritz's nieces and nephews. The two fall in love and decide to escape to Italy via Denmark where they have planned to get married. There are always complications because Mauritz's grandmother doesn't want him to marry below him - she has decided that Mauritz is to marry the Swedish beauty, Ingeborg Liliecrona.
Yhden yön hinta
The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.
Filmography
as Municipal councilor
as Presiding judge
as Ripatti
as Purola
as Eversti
as Fisherman
as Korpela
as Heikki Nurmi
as Holopainen
as Tuomas
as Leino (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Juha
as Himself - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
as Lieutenant Colonel
as Haapa
as (uncredited)
as Pekka Juhankoski
as (uncredited)
as Jari Junkkeri
as Friendly man
as Räikkönen (uncredited)
as Koivusalo (uncredited)
as vallesmanni
as Tullisyyttäjä
as (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Sankolan isäntä
as Anton Narva
as likka Junkkari
as Karkuri
as Police chief
as Sprengtporten
as Doorman (uncredited)
as ylilääkäri Kaarlo Kaarila
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
as Johansson
as Stenhoff
as Kaarlo Kyrö
as Antti Kaukonen
as Kaisla
as Freddi Malm
as Mauri Miettinen
as Aarno Tapio
as J.L. Runeberg
as Antti
as Arvo Tani
as Elias Jahnukainen
as Taavetti
as Olli Paaso
as Eino Piiroinen
as Johan Ludvig Runeberg
as Rannikkolainen
as Tuomas
as Iivari Takala
as Sihvola
as Jonni Aaltonen
as Erkki Hytönen
as Tarkka
as Akseli
as Jussi Harri