Unto Salminen
Acting
Biography
Unto Emil Kalervo Salminen (March 23, 1910 Helsinki - August 16, 1972 Helsinki) was a Finnish actor. The family of Unto Salminen is an actress. Salminen was married to actor Kyllikki Väre, who died in 1951. Salminen is known for his role as Eskimo in Nummisuutari, among others. He starred in the Finnish National Theater in 1931–1951, and after that he played for example. In intimate theater and radio theater. In his youth, Salminen competed in a rush. He was elected to the Turin European Championships in 1934, but because of his speed, he did not participate in the races. From Wikipedia (fi), the free encyclopedia
Born: March 23, 1910
Known For
Hetkiä yössä
Experimental Finnish movie from 1961, about one night in the city. In 1960, the director Eino Ruutsalo spoke of the movie with these words: "The camera moves around the night - loose images are created - they create memories, consortia in us, or do not create. Man as such is interesting. Woman for a man. Man for a woman. There is no final destiny - there are only events. Different people touch each other - nothing is too solid and not ready. Everything hovers and gets new shapes".
Silmät hämärässä
A mad writer checks into a hotel. In the window of a opposite building he sees four men and starts to write their life story. Every man is an anonymous person who have done or experienced something irreversible in his life. They end up together to plan a heist.
"Minä elän"
The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.
Professori Masa
A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn upside down.
Seitsemän veljestä
Based on a novel by Aleksis Kivi. Follows the story of seven brothers of Jukola in 19th century Finland.
Radio tulee hulluksi
Radio reporter Toivo Teräsvuori gets an idea for an experimental report using a hidden microphone, but he is reported as a madman talking to himself and is taken to the Houruniemi mental hospital. At the hospital, the volatile Toivo is considered insane, and even his wife Eila's testimony does not help the matter. Instead, Professor Piukka orders Toivo to undergo brain surgery.
The Scarlet Dove
Dr. Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa follows his wife to the city and finds out that she has a lover. Later the wife is found killed and Aitamaa becomes the prime suspect.
Suopursu kukkii
A mysterious traveler encounters Dr. Mirjami and Inga on the road. They lure the young man to a boarding house, where their husbands already live, along with the poet Annikki, the boarding house landlady Mrs. Soisalo, and her lover Einar. All four women feel attracted to the traveler, who begins to receive anonymous love letters.
Sven Tuuva the Hero
For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.
Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen
Olli Suominen has been appointed acting sheriff in the countryside, and the whole family has left for Kesäranta to spend the summer. The peaceful rural life is interrupted when small farmer Pullin's hay barn is destroyed in a fire and Anita and Aarne, the Lokka family who have moved in next door, get to know the Suominen family.
Filmography
as Vapun isä
as Matias Turunen, Saaran entinen aviomies
as Actor
as Old man
as (uncredited)
as Pedro
as Toll
as soldier
as The Writer
as Dr. Kirves
as Hanell
as Daniel Mathesius
as Araktschejew
as Nordgren
as Dr. Einar Heckler
as Ratas
as Aappo Ojanperä
as Einar Kinos
as Kyösti Åkerfelt
as Kullervo (uncredited)
as Rantamaa
as Lasse Lehtovaara
as Juho Karsta
as Lasse Lehtovaara
as Niilo Nurmi
as Ontrei
as Lasse Lehtovaara
as Veikko Kuusela
as Robert Bastman (uncredited)
as Lauri
as Aarne Lehti
as Aarne Uusitalo
as Hakala
as Esko
as Martti Paavola
as Pentti Varavaara
as Jaakko
as Salminen