Yrjö Tähtelä
Acting
Biography
Yrjö Tähtelä was born on 9 March 1936 in Helsinki, Finland. He was an actor and producer, known for Topralli (1966), Huivi (1962) and Doverie (1976). He was previously married to Ritva Vepsä.
Born: March 9, 1936
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland
Known For
Kultainen vasikka
Finnish period comedy set to the times of WW I. Based on a play by Maria Jotuni.
Pieni luutatyttö
A stepfather forces Liisa, an orphan girl, to leave her small town and go to Helsinki alone to sell brooms. With the help of a friendly vagrant named Maailman-Petteri and a homeless dog named Musti, Liisa prevents a burglary, and a kind police officer named Rinne and his wife help all the homeless people start a new life.
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".
Gas, Inspector Palmu!
A rich widow is found dead in her apartment in Helsinki due to gas poisoning. The incident is initially thought to be an accident, but inspector Palmu notices that the murderer made a mistake, and so Palmu, Kokki and Virta begin the investigation: who had come to the apartment through the balcony door and opened the gas tap while Mrs. Skrof was asleep?
For the Matches
In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected...
Rottasota
A story about the rise of awareness among the youth against the pollution and eco-system disaster. The conflict between the youth and ruling establishment is also taken under the inspection. The daughter of the prime minister and her relation to the son of another minister of opposing party is especially under surveillance.
Miljoonaliiga
Reiska who has moved to Helsinki from the country starts working as an errand boy in Sweden and Denmark for Lehto, a leader of a criminal league. Reiska's friend from school, Lea, who dreams of being a singer, drifts under Lehto's influence as well.
Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit
Mathematician Mauno Mutikainen is accidentally pronounced dead as a result of an operation where a splinter is being removed from his finger. He is then cloned into a test-tube adult named Richard Ilyevitch Jyrä by his creator Dr. Jyrä.
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.
Oksat pois…
Kalle leaves with his wife for their honeymoon in Airisto, but instead of a rental car, he mistakenly takes the getaway car stolen by robbers for a diamond heist.
Filmography
as Suomalaisen kauppavaltuuskunnan johtaja
as Narrator (voice)
as Poliisipäällikkö (voice)
as konstaapeli
as Reino Kallio
as Carl Enckell
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
as Lapa
as Jussi
as varjostaja
as Rudolf Räpylä
as Arto
as Ripa
as Ilmari - the journalist
as Matti Kivekäs
as Dr. Kaarlo Arras
as Officer's Assistant (uncredited)
as (uncredited)
as Young Man in Metropol
as poika vappuhipoissa
as (uncredited)
as rekkakuski
as (uncredited)
as Tane (uncredited)