Risto Salmi
Birthday: Born in 1941-07-07 in Metsämaa, Finland
Deathday: 2016-04-27
Risto Erland Salmi (July 7, 1941 Metsämaa – April 27, 2016) was a Finnish actor. During his approximately 50-year career as an artist, he performed several roles in theater, television and films.
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Raid
Character: Perse-Arska
Raid is based on detective stories by author Harri Nykänen and made into a 12-part series. The story tells about a police officer who has been investigating white-collar crimes is shot dead in a TV-studio. Another policeman takes his own life at his summer home. A young woman, an executive with a powerful electronics concern, also commits suicide. Her embittered father suspects foul play and he invites Raid, the woman's former boyfriend to "make inquiries". Meanwhile, the police are looking fo...
Isännät ja isäntien varjot
Character: Pappi
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...
Hovimäki
Character: Antti Matinpoika
The lives of the aristocratic Lindhof family and their servants from 1798 to 1907....
Taivaan tulet
Character: Pekka Väänänen
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Häräntappoase
Character: Svante Takkinen
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Peräkamaripojat
Character: P.A. Turpeinen
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Vain muutaman huijarin tähden
Character: P.A. Turpeinen
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Mooseksen perintö
Character: P.A. Turpeinen
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Turvetta ja timantteja
Character: P.A. Turpeinen
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Movie Credits
Man Exposed
Character: Erkki
A story of a priest, who considers himself as a rebel is suddenly asked to run for bishop of Turku....
Viimeinen keikka
Character: Niemi
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The Leaning Tower
Character: Leo
A middle-aged mental patient suffering from a split personality travels to Italy where his two personalities set off all kinds of confusing developments....
Tie
Character: Punkki
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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Character: Sheriff
Young Pietari lives with his reindeer-herding father in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, a nearby excavation makes a frightening discovery and an evil Santa Claus is unleashed…...
Garbage Prince
Character: Iso-Antti
Jed (19) walks out on his former life, without destination, without explanation, and gets on a train. He ends up by happenstance in a small eastern town in Finland where he soon comes face to face with the daily rigors of independent life. Coping becomes a challenge for him almost to the point of being an obsession. Of all the people in town, Jed seems to constantly run across the prickly and quick-witted Lulu (17). Gradually, without either of them admitting it, their relationship changes from...
Dog Nail Clipper
Character: Horseman Turpeinen
Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws. Together with his helpful war buddy Eetvi, Mertsi joins a lumber camp in the middle of a freezing winter, tries hard but finds the work there too strenuous for his body and mind. Whi...
I Hired Two Contract Cleaners
Character: Talonmies Pannimaa
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Iso vaalee
Character: Unto
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Dolly and Her Lover
Character: Venkula
Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal activities. Alcoholic Dolly takes Räpsy to live in Kallio, Helsinki, and hopes to move to Paris with her in the spring....
For the Living and the Dead
Character: Henrik
An ordinary suburban family is shattered when their youngest son is killed in an accidental fire while locked inside the family's car on their yard. Mother Marja can't stop crying, father Jaakko can't cry at all but blames himself for the fire. Their remaining son Timo develops problems at school because of his constant worries about his parents' safety. In their grief, Marja and her sister Leena have to confront an old family secret, their little sister's accidental death for which Leena has qu...
Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut
Character: Joulupukki
That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for retraining due to poor school performance....
The Moonlight Sonata
Character: Motellin isäntä
A female fashion model Anni Stark takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lapland for a vacation. Little does she know that there's a totally lunatic bunch of local hillbillies living in a nearby farmhouse. The plot thickens as one of the residents begins to harass Anni, who is left alone in the wilderness with only her dog to protect her. Too bad for her that her dog turns out to have divided loyalties....
Pearls and Pigs
Character: Alko's Salesman
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....
Big Game
Character: Hamara
Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness of Finland. 13-year-old Oskari is on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but instead discovers the President in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their prize, the unlikely duo team up to escape their hunters....
Jackpot
Character: Rauno Järvelä
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....
Rikos & rakkaus
Character: Taisto Toikka
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Kolme yötä
Character: Baarimikko
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Poliisin poika
Character: Rekkakuski
The petty criminal Trampas is released from prison and immediately starts planning new jobs with his girlfriend's simpleminded brother Lepsu. They are joined by Trampas's pregnant girlfriend and Jusse, a refugee from Rwanda, as a driver....
Pekko ja poika
Character: Unto, Pekon ja Pojan isä
A child who is the subject of a custody dispute flees from the social welfare authority from Tyräaho to Helsinki with Pekko. In the capital, the friends are helped by Pipsa, Pekko's crush, who joins them on a runaway trip. The press and the people of Tyräaho follow the trio's antics unflinchingly....
The Unknown Soldier
Character: Korpela
Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944)....
The Tough Ones
Character: Markkula
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....
A Long Hot Summer
Character: Lajunen's Father
The story of a rock band "Kalle Päätalo" in the 1980s....
Ricky Rapper and the Nighthawk
Character: Helppoheikki torilla
Ricky Rapper and Nighthawk Ricky find a buried treasure while digging for worms. Archaeological excavations begin at the site, and when a valuable iron-age ring vanishes, it becomes apparent that there's a site-robbing "nighthawk" at work here....
The Wrestler
Character: Maalari
An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own....
The Swan and the Wanderer
Character: Rautakauppias
The film tells the story of two very popular Finnish singer/songwriters: Tapio Rautavaara and Repe Helismaa, who worked together until their relationship got frictious for a long time. The film covers the years from 1949 to 1965. Since the film is based on real-life persons it also tells much about the change in Finland during those years and of course much about Finnish popular music....
Lahja
Character: Naamanka
A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn't succeed in the plan with her husband....
Legend of the Lake Bodom
Character: Armas Uolevi Karjula
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Minä, siili ja trumpetti
Character: Ailun isä
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Lyrics and Lace
Character: Salvationist
Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people. It's not just a romantic legend. In wry but basically directionless Finnish movie, Paavo Pentikainen plays one of these ungainly beings, a man whose last published work is decades in the past, who probably hasn't written anything in years, but who still has an uncanny knack for precise observation, "pinning the tail on the donkey" almost every time. I...
Postia marsalkalle
Character: Marsalkka
Story of a simple-minded Finnish soldier set in the winter of 1943....