Taneli Mäkelä
Birthday: Born in 1959-03-10 in Espoo, Finland
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Luottomies
Character: Johan Renwall
The series follows the lives of Juha "Juhis" Koski and Tommi Mäkinen-Renwall as neighbours. The men drift too far in their everyday challenges that lead to excessive outcomes. Unwillingly, Tommi and Juhis often find themselves in awkward and embarrassing situations where they are forced to choose one of two bad options. Tommi's wife and Juhis' good friend Harriet does her best to understand the men's antics....
Hunajan maku
Character: Markku Hietamaa
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Ihmisten puolue
Character: Tapani Riihimäki
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Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Autokauppias
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Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Reino Kurkela
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Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Työmies
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Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Kimmon isä
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Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: Fjalle
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Fakta homma
Character: Aulis Kaakko
Fakta homma is a Finnish comedy television series. It first aired on Finnish TV in 1986 and last aired in 1998....
Kotikatu
Character: Arto Maasalmi
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Kimmo
Character: Martti
The name of the person is a thirtysomething, work shy and relaxed Kimmo....
Tuntemattomalle Jumalalle
Character: Aarnio
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Kylmäverisesti sinun
Character: Taisto Harmaja
Kylmäverisesti sinun (Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood) is a Finnish true crime drama television series. All episodes are based on real life cases. The show follows Helsinki central police department investigator Veli Miettinen and lawyer Mira Kataja as they tackle with personal life problems and try to keep their relationship purely professional....
Sunnuntailounas
Character: Tauno
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Milkshake
Character: Tarkastaja Joel Lehtonen
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Sipoon herttua
Character: Jukka Vanhatalo
Duke of Sipoo is a comedy about corruption and family man, Pasi Kovalainen, who has built his empire mostly by questionable means. Kovalainen himself doesn't think he's a criminal, but a average man trying to make a living and a victim of bureaucracy. Prosecutor takes interests in his actions and puts two criminal investigators to investigate everything he does, planning to catch him even for something small and get him put behind bars. At the same time, one reporter and group of other people w...
Hobitit
Character: Frodo
Hobitit is a Finnish live action fantasy television miniseries originally broadcast in 1993 on Yle TV1. Produced by Olof Qvickström, it is based on the events of the books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien....
Ihon alla
Character: Hannu Sivenius
This emotion-packed hospital drama asks a bold question: How far are you ready to go to save your loved one? Are you capable of doing bad things to achieve something good? How far could you bend your morality to save the life of your nearest and dearest? This hospital is pushing the envelope....
Helsinki-syndrooma
Character: Jarmo Kiiski
Family man Elias Karo takes four journalist hostage at their newspaper’s headquarters, in a desperate attempt to get them to reveal the wrongdoing wreaked on his family during the 90's recession....
Lihaksia ja luoteja
Character: Yves Cousteau
Humoristic police series made by Kummeli comedy group. It includes some characters from Kummeli TV-series....
Ivalo
Character: Rauno Ylikorpi
During a routine search of an old cabin in the remote and wintery back country, Finnish policewoman, Nina Kautsalo, discovers two dead prostitutes, with a third still fighting for her life. The ensuing investigation takes a surprise twist when an extremely rare and deadly virus is discovered in the surviving woman’s bloodwork. When the Finnish Bureau of Investigation takes over the case, German virologist, Thomas Lorenz is called in to assist in identifying and containing the virus. Set within ...
Ivalo
Character: Reino Ylikorpi
During a routine search of an old cabin in the remote and wintery back country, Finnish policewoman, Nina Kautsalo, discovers two dead prostitutes, with a third still fighting for her life. The ensuing investigation takes a surprise twist when an extremely rare and deadly virus is discovered in the surviving woman’s bloodwork. When the Finnish Bureau of Investigation takes over the case, German virologist, Thomas Lorenz is called in to assist in identifying and containing the virus. Set within ...
Ou Nou
Character: Reino Kurkela
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Talvisota
Character: Martti Hakala
Pekka Parikka's The Winter War film edited as a five-part TV series....
Team Ahma
Character: Alpo Kurkinen
Stories about things that happen in the line of duty to two good friends working in the volunteer road service....
Movie Credits
FC Venus
Character: Lauri
Pete is a football enthusiast, who plays as a goalkeeper for FC HeMan, a team playing in the lowest possible league. His girlfriend, Anna, hates the whole sport. Pete and his teammates are planning to travel to watch the Football World Cup held in Germany. Anna is not excited about Pete's plan to leave her alone for the summer. Therefore Anna decides to present a challenge to Pete: She will form a team from the wives and girlfriends of the FC HeMan players, and then the women's team (FC Venus) w...
If You Love
Character: Adan Isä
Ada, the pampered daughter of the Minister, crashes drunk with an immigrant and loses her memory. Ada starts dating the victim’s son, Toni, but the relationship is put to the test when the secret is revealed....
The Winter War
Character: Martti Hakala
Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the farmer brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala....
Lapland Odyssey 3
Character: Timo
In the third instalment of the franchise, Janne embarks on an epic hike, a journey of self-discovery. His dreams of a tranquil retreat into nature are quickly shattered however, when Räihänen and Kämäräinen both decide to come along for the trip. Meanwhile Janne’s spouse Inari gets the chance to go back to work, but only if she can prove she’s “management material” and a real leader. Inari enters the Swamp Soccer tournament, where to her horror she finds out her ex Little Mikko is also competing...
The Wedding Waltz
Character: Pappi
Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repaired and inspected for road-worthiness, with a little help from an eccentric bunch of friends who never seem to have grown up either....
Plainlands
Character: Erkki
Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person unfamiliar with Finnish traditions, the brilliant acting, directing, plus the warm, beautiful Finnish summer more than make up for the cultural gap.The story begins with a group of brothers with their families coming up to honour the memory of their recently deceas...
Pearls and Pigs
Character: Helsingin juontaja
When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner....
Spede
Character: Eino S. Repo
The story about the life and career of Pertti 'Spede' Pasanen, it traces the iconic entertainer's most innovative phase of filmmaking. The film sheds light on behind-the-scenes events from the late 1960s to the birth story and popularity of Uuno Turhapuro, and Spede's tireless fight for the entertainment industry against the artistic film circles of the time....
Luottomies-elokuva: All in
Character: Johan
When Tommi doesn't get the promotion he was hoping for from his father-in-law Johan, he decides to get into the investment business to buy his dream house with his wife, Harriet. However, things are complicated by the fact that Tommi is easily fooled and the money from the old apartment, more than half a million euros, disappears in a pyramid scheme. When Tommi is in danger of losing Harriet for good, his loyal friend Juhis takes the reins. Juhis plans a rescue operation that kind of works....
Adult Camp
Character: Jouko
Adult Camp is a comedy about the bumpy road to personal growth. A group of men and women, strangers to each other, choose to spend a different kind of summer holiday week by traveling to the beautiful Turku archipelago to participate in an inviting, upgraded version of an adult camp. When they discover that the galloping horses from the camp's sales video are just symbols of a free mind, and the guru of the camp takes off to witness his dog in labour, the participants are forced to examine thems...
Nuoruustango
Character: Ilja
Is love eternal? Or ideology? When erstwhile communists meet at a food course the result is quite the concoction....
Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni
Character: Kenraali Ribbergin adjutantti
Relations between Sweden and Finland come to near breaking point. When further negotiations led by President Mara fail, Sergeant Körmy interferes in the course of events....
Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri
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95
Character: Johanneksen isä
Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation....
Vaiennut kylä
Character: Onni Pukari
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Jackpot
Character: Eikka
Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting....
Lain ulkopuolella
Character: Sakari Nevanen
On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner,and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator inlack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own ha...
Fakta homma
Character: Aulis Kaakko
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Kaikki hyvin, Pekka
Character: Autonasentaja
Pekka tries to accomplish absolute equality in one day....
Heavysaurs: The Movie
Character: Maxim
Heavysaurs is a partly-animated, live-action family adventure about two kids who find five funny dinosaur creatures that love to eat and play rock music. When the creatures are taken into captivity, their rescue takes the kids on an exciting adventure full of challenges and surprises....
Moomins and the Comet Chase
Character: Nuuskamuikkunen (voice)
One day Moomintroll wakes to notice that grey dust is covering everything in the Moominvalley. He runs to ask the philosophical Muskrat if he knows what is happening, who advises him that things tend to look like this before an awful fate coming from the sky hits the Earth. With the help of his father, Moominpappa, Moomintroll and his close friends Sniff and Snufkin build a raft and head out on a challenging journey to the observatory in the Lonely Mountains hoping to find out more from the wise...
Pullahiiri
Character: olli
A teenager (Sari Puumalainen) starts to suffer from bulimia nervosa after her boyfriend tells her to loose a bit weight. The illness makes her neglect the school and her friends until she realises that she is not alone with her problems....
Naked Harbour
Character: Milla's Father
Naked Harbour is a movie about Finnish love in the year 2011. It is a story about people who seek love and acceptance at any cost. During one winter week all its characters face something irreversible....
Reunion
Character: Appiukko / Lääkäri
Luokkakokous is a story about three men that travel back to their hometown to attend their high school class reunion....
Sexy as Hell
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When an accounting company moves, it’s CEO gets an opportunity to display her awesome management skills....
Moomin and Midsummer Madness
Character: Nuuskamuikkunen (voice)
After a volcanic eruption causes floods, members of the moomin family find refuge inside a floating theater....
Anita
Character: Niilo Kalevi Rotko
Crime caper involving two con artists who team up to pull off a super scam. Complications arise when the female member of the team falls in love with the male partner, who is mainly interested in the money....
The Other Side of Hope
Character: Seller of the Restaurant
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland....
Blue Corner
Character: Pentti Maalismaa
Dreams perimeter Matti Ijäksen has written and directed, praised to the skies domestic film, which is in addition to starring always convincing trace Knocking Petteri Summanen and Sulevi Peltola. It is therefore goes without saying that expectations were high in its case. But how it happened? Dreams own peripheral clearly some form of casing, which does not let therein, but hits the deck of the cut made without the kehääkin - Joint events yhteenparsimisen means....
Gold Digger
Character: Esa Ryynänen, Marjan isä
Marja (Minka Kuustonen) is a blogger. Olavi is one of the richest men in the country. She might be able to save her blog if she dates him, but what if she falls for him for real?...
Akallinen mies
Character: Suuronen, meijerin konsulentti
The farmer now has found a wife....
The Subtenant
Character: Mies huoltoasemalla
A farce about blackmailing, a kidney transplant operation performed at home, deviants and human relationships....
Three in Love
Character: Martti
Tomi finds himself in love with two women and his wife Maria finds herself in a situation where she has to deal with the fact that Tomi is the love of her life....
Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva
Character: Jääskeläinen
The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so....
Falling Angels
Character: Ailan isä
The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of the legend. Relations with her mother have deteriorated since she moved to Sweden. Helena blames her mother for abandoning her father. Helena and her mother meet again as Helena's mental health deteriorates and in order to cope, she must face reality through her mother's memoirs. Helena becomes intensely involved in the story and relives it by imag...
Love Records
Character: Anders Blom
The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland....
Once Upon a Time in the North
Character: Sakari Kantola
19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs. Traditionally, the first-born son inherits everything, so when Esko – a bum and a gang leader – learns that his father will leave the Välitalo estate to his younger and exemplary brother, all hell breaks loose....