Unto Salminen

Unto Salminen

Birth : 1910-03-23,

Death : 1972-08-16

History

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

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Unto Salminen
Unto Salminen

Movies

Elokuva jalostavasta rakkaudesta
Actor
Windy Day
Old man
The strange, disjointed love story in the existentialist film Windy Day transported the young lovers to an island off the town of Kotka.
Miljoonavaillinki
A manager of a company has made an embezzlement just to make the sweet life possible with his lover. An office manager promises to take the blame if the manager promises to behave better.
Moments in the Night
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".
The Scarlet Dove
(uncredited)
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.
Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen
Kivi
Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen
Pedro
Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca and back. The counterfeit money printing plates are desperately searched by the gang and our heroes try to hide from them by travelling to Mallorca, where some of the local hoods try to kill them and retake the missing plates.
Sven Tuuva the Hero
Toll
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.
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
soldier
Unexpected romance is in the air when a young woman from Finnish boarding school meets an American millionaire. This is the only Finnish film starring Miss Universe 1952 Armi Kuusela.
The Radio Goes Mad
Doctor Kirves
Eyes in the Dark
The Writer
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.
Sadan miekan mies
Lakeuksien lukko
Hanell
Katarina kaunis leski
Daniel Mathesius
Finland late 1700s. After Katarina Thorwöst becomes a widow, there are many suitors, but her heart belongs to the fencing teacher lieutenant Carl-Magnus Schildt.
Tanssi yli hautojen
Araktschejew
In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
Professori Masa
Nordgren
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.
Katupeilin takana
Dr. Einar Heckler
Pontevat pommaripojat
Ratas
Ruusu ja kulkuri
Aappo Ojanperä
Suopursu kukkii
Einar Kinos
Pimeänpirtin hävitys
Kyösti Åkerfelt
Set in 19th century country side and a small town. Leni and later her daughter Hanni living in Pimeänpirtti croft are seduced by Otto von Holten, the Patron of Kankaanpää Estate.
Kullervo (uncredited)
The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.
Kyläraittien kuningas
Esa
Nainen on valttia
Rantamaa
A famous operette star Kirsti Kalpa escapes her busy and selfish fiance and hides as maid to house of 3 bachelors ( professor, composer and butler) , who basically hate women.
Suomisen taiteilijat
Lasse Lehtovaara
Tuomari Martta
Juho Karsta
Martha's problem is balancing work and family. According to her husband Juho and father-in-law Kalle, the mother's place is at home with the child and not at work. Only her mother-in-law Ilona encourages Martta to advance in her career.
Suomisen Ollin tempaus
Lasse Lehtovaara
Uuteen elämään
Niilo Nurmi
Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina
Ontrei
At the eve of Crimean war orphaned Regina lives with her grandmother in a small cabin near a lavish villa. As the summer approaches there is great anticipation of a big ball to be held.
Suomisen perhe
Lasse Lehtovaara
The film takes place in the summer and spring of 1940. Isä, the father, gets involved in the stock market and threatens the livelihood of the family.
Yövartija vain...
Veikko Kuusela
Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu
Robert Bastman (uncredited)
A poet finds a new muse in young woman.
Seitsemän veljestä
Lauri
Based on a novel by Aleksis Kivi. Follows the story of seven brothers of Jukola in 19th century Finland.
Lapatossu ja Vinski olympia-kuumeessa
Aarne Lehti
Takki ja liivit pois!
Aarne Uusitalo
Helmikuun manifesti
Hakala
February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.
Nummisuutarit
Esko
Kiusaus
Olenko minä tullut haaremiin
Martti Paavola
Kuriton sukupolvi
Pentti Varavaara
Taistelu Heikkilän talosta
Jaakko
Ne 45000
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