Marjatta Raita

Marjatta Raita

Birth : 1944-02-17, Pori, Finland

Death : 2007-09-27

History

Marjatta Raita (17 February 1944, Pori – 27 September 2007) was a Finnish actress, who was best known for her role as Elisabeth Turhapuro in the Uuno Turhapuro movies directed by Spede Pasanen. Raita also appeared in many other films, although she acted mainly in theater. She studied in a theater school in 1962-1965.

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Marjatta Raita

Movies

Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story.
Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro - pisnismies
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties.
Uuno Turhapuron veli
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.
Uuno Turhapuron poika
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Gangsters try to steal Uuno Turhapuro's father-in-law's money by infiltrating into the family through Uuno, by pretending he has a long-lost son.
Uuno Turhapuro Suomen Tasavallan Herra Presidentti
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno Turhapuro becomes the President of Finland. Streets are named after him and honorary companies are arranged for him. He also tries to turn Finland into a kingdom.
Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.
Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla
Elisabeth Tuura
This prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies tells the story of Uuno's birth and childhood.
Double Uuno
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno Turhapuro finds his doppelganger, Hugo, who happens to be a computer genius. Hugo helps Uuno save his father-in-law's business (and Uuno's inheritance) while Uuno helps Hugo win the heart of the love of his life.
Numbskull Emptybrook the Double Agent
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his father in law hatches a complicated scheme to finally get rid of Uuno.
Numbskull Emptybrook Back in the Country
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno's father-in-law councillor Tuura moves to the country with his wife and daughter Elisabeth. Uuno joins them when it turns out Tuura's mansion is on the construction site of a new road. Tuura however is set on preventing this.
Uuno Epsanjassa
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno Turhapuro is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a job in a small travel agency and takes a group of Finnish tourists to Marbella, Spain. Unfortunately Uuno's father-in-law Tuura is in the group, too, with his wife and daughter, Uuno's wife Elisabet. Tuura tries to get a signature to an important paper from a minister who's having a holiday in the area. Meanwhile, Uuno just relaxes and enjoys the sun.
Numbskull Emptybrook in the Army
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön return to the army for a refresher course and by chance Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura is made the Finnish Defence Minister. In one of the most memorable scenes, Uuno's wife, Elisabeth, dresses as Uuno and substitutes him for a day as Uuno has an apparently urgent meeting (at a restaurant) and while becoming lost in the woods with a malfunctioning radio, Tuura accidentally declares war on Sweden.
Numbskull Emptybrook's Memory Slowly Comes Back
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen tries to help them.
Uuno Turhapuro menettää muistinsa
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace movement with unorthodox methods.
Uuno Turhapuron aviokriisi
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno's nose is proved to be so good, that he can smell behind the display window what goods are on the other side. With this fabulous smell talent Uuno is chosen to Police's police-dog school as a student among the other dogs. Meanwhile Director Tuura, Uuno's father-in-law has been chosen to a very high office and thinks that Uuno is just gaining bad reputation for him, so he decides to broake Uuno's and Elisabet's marriage.
Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno Turhapuro, a useless bum who has married money, creates havoc around his father-in-law's presidential campaign. He dresses up as his long-lost, wealthy brother from America, but things go awry when the real brother appears. At some point Uuno takes up a job at a hardware store, only to warm up a classic TV sketch perfected years earlier by the film's writer-producer Spede Pasanen. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki
Hapless End? Or How Numbskull Emptybrook Won the Hand of Such a Rich and Beautiful Lady
Elisabeth Unelma Tuura
Uuno moves in flight cargo to Helsinki for the search of a rich, beautiful wife. He buys elegant clothes for eight marks from an estate auction and in two weeks becomes the most pursued bachelor in town, charming all the women. He also starts as a waiter in Vaaleanpunainen sika (Pink Pig), which starts the first quarrels between him and his father-in-law.
Lottery-Winner U.K.K. Emptybrook
Elisabeth Turhapuro
It is the first anniversary of Uuno and Elisabet. Uuno has placed a bet with his friend Härski-Hartikainen a year ago, that if Uuno can take just one year of marriage with Elisabet, Hartikainen will treat him a festive dinner. However, Hartikainen buys a lottery ticket for Uuno, who agrees to deduct it from his debt – and the festive dinner is reduced to a can of milk and half a sausage. As it happens, Uuno becomes the lottery winner of 1.5 million marks, only to soon realize he doesn't own a single penny yet. Mister Tossavainen arrives and offers to finance Uuno before he actually gets the jackpot. Thus, Uuno gets to live a rich live on credit. He buys a raccoon fur, leopard swimming trunks and a couple of Mercedes-Benzes. Women begin to fancy Uuno and so does his father-in-law. As time goes by it is revealed, though, that Uuno is not actually a lottery winner, and so he has to escape the anger of others to Härski's car repair shop.
Professor Numbskull D(avid) G(oliath) Emptybrook
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination, though, and the help of Härski Hartikainen (Spede Pasanen), he somehow manages to avoid all work, until he becomes what he has always dreamt of being - a film star. Uuno's father-in-law has other plans for his occupation, though: since Uuno knows the Dandelion, he has potential for a professor of botany.
Meiltähän tämä käy
Anita
Numbskull Emptybrook
Elisabeth Turhapuro
Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.