Kari Ketonen
Birthday: Born in 1971-08-16 in Espoo, Finland
Deathday: Alive
An actor, director and screenwriter, known for Lapland Odyssey (2010), Lapland Odyssey 2 (2015) and Protectors (2008). Graduated from the Helsinki Theatre Academy in 1997 as a Master of Theater Arts and has also completed a degree in psychotherapy.
TV Credits
Ammattimies
Character: Boy on the street
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Kumman kaa
Character: Jujutsuopettaja
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Kaverille ei jätetä
Character: 4eyes
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Downshiftaajat
Character: Ville Helmisalo
A successful thirtysomething couple find themselves at a financial dead end; they are faced with an extreme lifestyle change to pay for their debts. The luxury lifestyle ends when they are forced to move into a rented apartment in the suburbs. But to their friends, they hold up a facade and explain it all with downshifting....
Syke
Character: Jaren isä
Like good soldiers in a war-zone, hospital staff are expected to respect the chain of command when dealing with life and death situations. But what happens when smug doctors, arrogant surgeons, and out-of-touch administrators make that easier said than done? Nurses deals with the professional and personal lives of four female colleagues who cope in different ways with the challenges of life on the trauma ward. With determination, strength, and a dark sense of humor, they achieve the demanding an...
Kimmo
Character: Rami Sjölund
The name of the person is a thirtysomething, work shy and relaxed Kimmo....
Hyvät ja huonot uutiset
Character: Host
The Good and the Bad News is a Finnish comedy panel game television show airing on channel Nelonen on Wednesday evenings....
Luottomies
Character: Juha "Juhis" Manner
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....
Putous
Character: Vladimir Putin / Aimo Sonni
Finnish sketch comedy television show....
Tappajan näköinen mies
Character: Jaak Lillepuu
In this gripping thriller based on the novels by Finnish author Matti Rönkä, Viktor Kärppä is a former KGB agent who settles in Finland, the country of his ancestors. He tries to make a living as a private investigator and business facilitator for Russian migrants, but finds himself entangled with organized crime. He may look like a killer, but he isn't one....
Pasilan myrkky - Manni
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Student Santeri Manni accidentally finds a bag of amphetamines. To help his alcoholic mother get clean, Manni decides to keep the drugs and sell them. Unfortunately for Manni, a motorcycle gang and the narcotics police are also interested in the drugs....
Ivalo
Character: Jaakko Stenius, KRP
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 ...
Ketonen & Myllyrinne
Character:
Ketonen & Myllyrinne is like a brush of a rubber glove on naked thigh. The show doesn't apologize to anyone and nothing is sacred to it, except Sundays....
Suojelijat
Character: Mälli
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Putous
Character: Aimo Sonni / Various
Finnish sketch comedy television show....
Putous
Character: Rontgoteus Hittavainen / Various
Finnish sketch comedy television show....
Ihmebantu
Character:
Ihmebantu is a Finnish black humor sketch show....
Los Angelesin kuningas
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Movie Credits
Lapland Odyssey 4
Character: Mikko Ala-Naappa
Hunt for the elusive tofu in the Arctic Circle....
Sauna
Character: Musko
It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men. They find themselves in the swampy interior, demarcating the new border with a unit of sadistic Russians....
1944 The Final Defence
Character: Majuri Eero Leppänen
The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back, with all odds against them. The Battle of Tali-Ihantala was the largest battle ever fought in the history of the Nordic countries. This film depicts the true events through five separate stories....
Eine Insel namens Udo
Character: Mr. Sallinen
Udo is invisible - no one ever seems to notice him. He makes the most of it, working as a department store detective and living off other people's lives as they never notice him tagging along. Until he meets the one woman who sees him....
Silence
Character: Tykkimies
A drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These actions were carried out by men and women working in assembly centres near enemy lines. Silence is a story of a group of people in a limbo between life and death, in a mental no-man's- land, where heaven and hell, horror and joy, love and fear touch each other....
Pelicanman
Character: Pelikaanimies
Wanting to know the ways of people, a pelican turns into a gawky young man who soon learns to speak, thanks to his outstanding talent in imitation. He befriends Emil and Elsa, two children who--unlike adults--see that their new neighbor "Mr Berd" is not human but a big bird wearing a suit. The Pelican Man lands a job at the opera and falls in love with a pretty ballerina, looking so much like a bird herself. Troubles start when adults too find out about "Mr Berd's" ornithological origin....
Lapland Odyssey
Character: Pikku-Mikko
Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his frien...
Gourmet Club
Character: Henri Wallenius
"Gourmet Club" follows a doctor who belongs to a small but exclusive gourmet club, in which the five upper-class members take turns providing the main course, wagering as to who can identify a mystery exotic ingredient. Things get interesting when the doctor's gambling problem catches up with him. Desperate, he comes up with the idea to use a truly shocking mystery ingredient to fool his colleagues, but he gets more than he bargained for when the mystery meal has a surprising and powerful effect...
Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble
Character: Spede (voice)
Set right before Christmas, young reindeer Niko must deal with his mother's remarriage and his being tasked with looking after his little stepbrother....
Vinski and the Invisibility Powder
Character: Naapuri
10-year-old Vinski feels like an outsider and invisible among his age-mates, and even with his single mother Krista. Vinski meets a mysterious pharmacist who gives him a bottle of magical powder. A powder, that allows you to become invisible for real and walk through walls. It is fantastic to have the powers of a super hero, but soon a group of crooks becomes interested in the secret of invisibility as well....
Luottomies-elokuva: All in
Character: Juhis
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....
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
Character: Vril Vladimir Putin
29 years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of mankind. Earth was devastated by a nuclear war, but buried deep under the wasteland lies a power that could save the last of humanity - or destroy it once and for all. An old enemy leads our heroes on an adventure into the Hollow Earth. To save humanity, they must battle the Vril, an ancient shapeshifting reptilian race, and their army of dinosaurs....
Nainen kedolla
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8-Ball
Character: Ivakka
8-Ball tells the story of single mother Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli comes back from abroad, it opens a window into a past that Pike wants to put behind her....
Lapland Odyssey 2
Character: Pikku-Mikko
It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventure, this time on an autumn night. The boys go to a party but end up chasing Lumi who has disappeared. Meanwhile, Inari enjoys a girls-night-out and has an adventure of her own....
The Grump
Character: Sakke Intonen
A stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer - whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric - raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack, city-dwelling son and domineering daughter-in-law....
Lapland Odyssey 3
Character: Pikku-Mikko
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...
Kadonnut: Joulupukki
Character: Viestitonttu
Four children have received an invitation to meet Santa Claus. They end up in a mystical Christmasland, where they find out that Santa Claus has disappeared! Will the children manage to find Santa in time and will Christmas be saved?...
Kaikki hyvin, Pekka
Character: Pekka
Pekka tries to accomplish absolute equality in one day....
Skene
Character: Huumepoliisi Bergström
Ella, a girl from the province, starts her freshman year at the Helsinki Business School. The capital's party scene introduces her to ecstasy, and together with her new friend Silja and boyfriend Jokke she can't help finding it an easy and lucrative business opportunity. The three soon develop an addiction not so much to the drug but to all the good things that the money can buy. But before long, reality bites back....
Täydellinen joulu
Character: Matias
Woman whom have kids with 4 different guys invites her ex-husbands and kids to Christmas party....
The Potato Venture
Character: Adviser
A young Start-up entrepreneur tries to start importing potato to 17th century Finland. The new class of bourgeoisie is emerging and shaking up the stagnant spirit of the era. But nobody believes in potato, and the Turnip-Sellers Guild decides to squash the disturbance caused by the young entrepreneurs. In the end, the bumpy road of potatoes grows into mythical proportions....
Ella and Friends
Character: Isä Yksi
A young girl and her friends try to save their small rural school from being demolished to make way for a race track....
The Renovation
Character: Folke
A couple inherit a 'house of their dreams' and for a while they think they got lucky, but soon find themselves in the middle of a renovation nightmare....
A Patriotic Man
Character: Pekka Peltola, maajoukkueen lääkäri
Every nation gets the heroes it deserves. A man with a special blood type is used as a device for human doping athletes skiing national team....
Bad Women
Character: Matti
Johanna, the hostess of the parish house, does her utmost to ensure that everything goes according to plan. There is no room for error. The last thing Johanna needs is a busload of uninvited guests knocking on the door of the parish house on the eve of an important wedding. However, a passing Russian party has had its car broken down and Johanna soon finds herself accommodating the party at the parish house. Johanna's brother is tasked with fixing the car to get the guests on the road and out of...
Wedding of the Century
Character: Sairaalan vahtimestari
A celebrity psychiatrist struggles to find a date for a wedding. Her dearest ex is getting married and she needs to find someone fancy enough to hide the fact that she is lonely, drinks too much and is pretty fucked up in any imaginable way....
Little Sister
Character: Olli
Katri's husband has died in the Finnish Winter War. When the Continuation War begins, Katri volunteers to work in a Helsinki military hospital. She is courted by a patient, a poetry-reciting countryman bound to be released from service. In the same time, she dates old school friend Eero who even goes AWOL to be near her. As the war continues, Katri has to make difficult decisions about her life....