Vesa Mäkelä
Birthday: Born in 1947-03-28 in Kauhava, Finland
Deathday: 2003-08-04
TV Credits
Hunajan maku
Character: Riipinen
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Häjyt
Character: Nimismies Hägglund
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Pirunnyrkki
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Yhdeksän miehen saappaat
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Isännät ja isäntien varjot
Character: Martti Herneinen
Time of depression in the 1930s. "Poverty and abundant wealth have simultaneously filled the earth's circle. The peasant's cornerstones are moving." Iso Herneinen's mistress is dead and grief lives in Jopi's heart. Jopi's grown-up boys are hardly happy. The eldest boy fell in love with the house maid. The middle one is, according to Jopi, a strange modern product. The youngest does not enjoy working or working at home. The three-part TV series tells about the peasant's collapse in years of depre...
Talvisota
Character: Yrjö Haavisto
Pekka Parikka's The Winter War film edited as a five-part TV series....
Movie Credits
Esa ja Vesa – auringonlaskun ratsastajat
Character: Makkosen partneri
Computer professional Vesa Rajala rushes to home from a work trip because his wife Sanna is leaving for Greece with her new lover, Georgios from next door....
The South
Character: Bar-Owner
A comedy of crime, romance and deception played out against the background of a vacation under the Mediterranean sun....
Onnellinen mies
Character: Pyörähtälä
Bridge engineer Akseli Jaatinen arrives to stir up the lives of the inhabitants of a small Finnish village. Jaatinen is well-liked at the bridge construction site, but he quickly finds himself clashing against the local decision-makers. The bridge engineer is also popular with the ladies and, being a man of energy, he manages to take care of several of his admirers at once....
Plainlands
Character: Seppo
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...
Mole's Treasure
Character: Narrator (voice)
A small mole is looking for a fallen star in the night forest where everyone else seem to have already found their own treasures....
Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva
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The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so....
A Summer by the River
Character: Hilteeni
Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed father Tenho....
Kaikki pelissä
Character: näyttelijä
A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group's press conference and claims that script is written by him and it is based on true story. Töysä also says that he has written a new ending to the movie and that it reveals an old murder. Not everyone is happy about the new twist....
Sujut
Character: Alikersantti Lauri Ojala
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Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet
Character: Vihollinen, tulkki
Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies....
Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni
Character: Konduktööri
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....
Lovers & Leavers
Character: Samin isä
This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?...
The Winter War
Character: Yrjö Haavisto
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....
Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha
Character: Hannes Jokinen
Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they start a bus tour in order to find a suitable place for the mass suicide....
Uuno Turhapuron veli
Character: Poliisi
Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped....
The Man Without a Past
Character: Men's Room Guard
Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer....
Hamlet Goes Business
Character: Doctor
When Hamlet discovers his father’s deceased body, he finds himself pulled into a power struggle as his scheming uncle attempts to secure a monopoly on the Scandinavian rubber duck industry. Will Hamlet avenge his father? Will he become the king of rubber ducks? Does any of it really matter?...
Puhallus
Character: Tervamäki
The company's regional manager has had enough of the fast pace of business and the frivolous patterns. He leaves the office sauna for a booze run at the behest of his boss. Drunk and driving his own car, even he doesn't have to. The situation becomes a thrilling chase that ends in a breathalyzer test and all-round relief as things fall into place. The booze run becomes a turning point in the life of the group's regional manager....
Drifting Clouds
Character: Tax Official
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope....
The Tough Ones
Character: Rahikainen
The Tough Ones tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convicted, has become a policeman. He tries to help his friends to settle into the small town in Pohjanmaa, but the boys start a black market liquor business instead. The road seems to lead back to the jail....
Bad Boys: A True Story
Character: Veijo Esso
The story bases on four Finnish brothers, nicknamed 'the Eura Daltons' who received nation-wide notoriety for tearing gas pumps apart when they needed cash....
The Manila Rope
Character: Fiksu
Manillaköysi is a cult status holding TV-movie adaptation of the satirical war novel by Veijo Meri. Manillaköysi has an endless list of classic one-liners, but it is still not based on cheap laughs or anything like that. The whole humouristic aspect of it comes from describing the absurdity of war, and the whole military system, by looking it with the eyes of a simple man, who's thrown into it, and who simply does not give a rats ass of it all. The tone of it is not overly preachy or moralizin...
Romanovin kivet
Character: Virta
This action packed Finnish thriller tells the tale of two friends who get their revenge against the millionaire who double-crossed them. Patrick and Tony are hired by the wealthy gambler to steal the priceless Romanov stones, Russian jewels. They do it, but almost lose their lives when he double-crosses them. They turn around and get revenge, his money, his wife, and his daughter....