Spede Pasanen

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Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen (10 April 1930 – 7 September 2001) was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor, who has been called an "all-around entertainer". During his career he directed, wrote, produced or acted in about 50 movies and participated in numerous TV productions, including the comedy Spede Show and the game-show Speden Spelit. Much of his more commercial work was in collaboration with Vesa-Matti Loiri (whose most popular character created by Pasanen was Uuno Turhapuro; first in TV sketches and then in a long-lasting series of motion pictures) and Simo Salminen. Pasanen's films and TV shows, often made quickly and on a low budget, usually received little critical recognition but were popular among Finnish audiences from the 1960s onwards. He was the owner of his own film production company, Filmituotanto Spede Pasanen Ky. Pasanen was ranked 17th at the Suuret suomalaiset competition show broadcast by Yleisradio.

10-04-1930

Birthday

Aries

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Spede, H6, Atomi-Spede, Jürgen von Schnitzel

Also known as (male)

Kuopio, Finland

Place of Birth

10-04-1930

Birthday

Aries

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Pertti Pasanen, Spede, H6, Atomi-Spede

Also Known As (male)

Kuopio, Finland

Place of Birth

Popular works

Media

Creative career

actor

49 Works

producer

44 Works

director

88 Works

writer

33 Works

other

1 Works

Visa Mäkinen - My movie

Short documentary about finnish movie director Visa Mäkinen. There is photos from family album and short clips where Visa Mäkinen is working behind the camera. There is also clips from his most famous movies, and actors, colleague and a film critic telling small anecdotes about Visa Mäkinen.

0.0

Year:

2002

Naisen logiikka

A Finnish comedy seen by under 400 viewers upon original release. Never aired on TV or published on home media.

2.7

Year:

1999

Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies

Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties.

3.5

Year:

1998

Uuno Turhapuron veli

Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.

2.6

Year:

1994

Uuno Turhapuron poika

Gangsters try to steal Uuno Turhapuro's father-in-law's money by infiltrating into the family through Uuno, by pretending he has a long-lost son.

3.4

Year:

1993

Uuno Turhapuro Suomen Tasavallan Herra Presidentti

Uuno Turhapuro becomes the President of Finland. Streets are named after him and honorary companies are arranged for him. He also tries to turn Finland into a kingdom.

4.7

Year:

1992

Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra

Uuno is working as campaign manager of a president candidate but accidentally Uuno himself becomes the president of Finland.

4.4

Year:

1991

Uunon huikeat poikamiesvuodet maaseudulla

This prequel to the other Uuno Turhapuro movies tells the story of Uuno's birth and childhood.

5.1

Year:

1990

Tupla-Uuno

Uuno Turhapuro finds his doppelganger, Hugo, who happens to be a computer genius. Hugo helps Uuno save his father-in-law's business (and Uuno's inheritance) while Uuno helps Hugo win the heart of the love of his life.

4.1

Year:

1988

Uuno Turhapuro kaksoisagentti

Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his father in law hatches a complicated scheme to finally get rid of Uuno.

4.3

Year:

1987

Pikkupojat

OK, imagine four men in their 40s and 50s. You there? OK, now imagine them wearing suits and playing on a sandbox as characters aged 4, 5 and 6. Pasanen even has his trademark beard, for Christ's sake!

6.2

Year:

1986

Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle

Uuno's father-in-law councillor Tuura moves to the country with his wife and daughter Elisabeth. Uuno joins them when it turns out Tuura's mansion is on the construction site of a new road. Tuura however is set on preventing this.

5.6

Year:

1986

Uuno Epsanjassa

Uuno Turhapuro is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a job in a small travel agency and takes a group of Finnish tourists to Marbella, Spain. Unfortunately Uuno's father-in-law Tuura is in the group, too, with his wife and daughter, Uuno's wife Elisabet. Tuura tries to get a signature to an important paper from a minister who's having a holiday in the area. Meanwhile, Uuno just relaxes and enjoys the sun.

5.7

Year:

1985

Turhapuroilmiö

A TV documentary about the Finnish comedy character Uuno Turhapuro.

0.0

Year:

1985

Hei kliffaa hei

4.4

Year:

1985

Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä

Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön return to the army for a refresher course and by chance Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura is made the Finnish Defence Minister. In one of the most memorable scenes, Uuno's wife, Elisabeth, dresses as Uuno and substitutes him for a day as Uuno has an apparently urgent meeting (at a restaurant) and while becoming lost in the woods with a malfunctioning radio, Tuura accidentally declares war on Sweden.

6.0

Year:

1984

Lentävät luupäät

Two brothers from Häme discover that they are actually from Karelia. During the celebration of the newfound fact, one of the brothers is bitten by a bug. After seeking medical help from a doctor - who tries to tell the brothers that he is not a doctor of medicine - the doctor decides to trick the boys by convincing them that the insect in question is called Insectum propellatum, also known as the aviation bug, and unless the affected brother learns how to fly, the bite might turn fatal. During their shenanigans, they become acquainted with a robot that runs on booze, two scoundrels, and the beautiful Miss Universe!

3.8

Year:

1984

Uuno Turhapuron muisti palailee pätkittäin

Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and Härski Hartikainen tries to help them.

4.5

Year:

1983

Uuno Turhapuro menettää muistinsa

Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace movement with unorthodox methods.

4.3

Year:

1982

Uuno Turhapuron aviokriisi

Uuno's nose is proved to be so good, that he can smell behind the display window what goods are on the other side. With this fabulous smell talent Uuno is chosen to Police's police-dog school as a student among the other dogs. Meanwhile Director Tuura, Uuno's father-in-law has been chosen to a very high office and thinks that Uuno is just gaining bad reputation for him, so he decides to broake Uuno's and Elisabet's marriage.

4.5

Year:

1981

Tup akka lakko

'Tup-Akka-Lakko' is sequel to 'Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit' in witch doctor Jyrä (Hämäläinen) invented test-tube-adult (Spede) who look exactly like matematition Mutikainen. When the test-tube-adults body emerged 'cause doctors mistake, voice moved living into Mutikainens body. And that is reason for many problems what happen to people in this film.

4.5

Year:

1980

Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit

Mathematician Mauno Mutikainen is accidentally pronounced dead as a result of an operation where a splinter is being removed from his finger. He is then cloned into a test-tube adult named Richard Ilyevitch Jyrä by his creator Dr. Jyrä.

5.1

Year:

1979

Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy

Uuno Turhapuro, a useless bum who has married money, creates havoc around his father-in-law's presidential campaign. He dresses up as his long-lost, wealthy brother from America, but things go awry when the real brother appears. At some point Uuno takes up a job at a hardware store, only to warm up a classic TV sketch perfected years earlier by the film's writer-producer Spede Pasanen. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki

4.4

Year:

1978

Häpy endkö? Eli kuinka Uuno Turhapuro sai niin kauniin ja rikkaan vaimon

Uuno moves in flight cargo to Helsinki for the search of a rich, beautiful wife. He buys elegant clothes for eight marks from an estate auction and in two weeks becomes the most pursued bachelor in town, charming all the women. He also starts as a waiter in Vaaleanpunainen sika (Pink Pig), which starts the first quarrels between him and his father-in-law.

5.4

Year:

1977

Lottovoittaja UKK Turhapuro

It is the first anniversary of Uuno and Elisabet. Uuno has placed a bet with his friend Härski-Hartikainen a year ago, that if Uuno can take just one year of marriage with Elisabet, Hartikainen will treat him a festive dinner. However, Hartikainen buys a lottery ticket for Uuno, who agrees to deduct it from his debt – and the festive dinner is reduced to a can of milk and half a sausage. As it happens, Uuno becomes the lottery winner of 1.5 million marks, only to soon realize he doesn't own a single penny yet. Mister Tossavainen arrives and offers to finance Uuno before he actually gets the jackpot. Thus, Uuno gets to live a rich live on credit. He buys a raccoon fur, leopard swimming trunks and a couple of Mercedes-Benzes. Women begin to fancy Uuno and so does his father-in-law. As time goes by it is revealed, though, that Uuno is not actually a lottery winner, and so he has to escape the anger of others to Härski's car repair shop.

5.9

Year:

1976

Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro

Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination, though, and the help of Härski Hartikainen (Spede Pasanen), he somehow manages to avoid all work, until he becomes what he has always dreamt of being - a film star. Uuno's father-in-law has other plans for his occupation, though: since Uuno knows the Dandelion, he has potential for a professor of botany.

6.2

Year:

1975

Uuno Turhapuro

Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.

5.4

Year:

1973

Hirttämättömät

Two outlaws, The Lonely Rider and the Indian Tonto, have caught (at least they think they have) Speedy Gonzales, a ruthless gunfighter from the town of Njietponimaistadi. They start to travel to another town for the reward, through the desert without water and fighting against Indians. And just to find out that they have made a full circle back to origin.

6.3

Year:

1971

Kahdeksas veljes

Jalmar Riivatsalo works in an ad agency and tries to find success both in love and business.

5.1

Year:

1971

Speedy Gonzales – noin 7 veljeksen poika

5.7

Year:

1970

Pohjan tähteet

Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinematographer Törrönen an old pro, and the leading actors Igor and Merju first detest each other although the script is supposed to make them lovers. The two gradually grow closer even in real life, but the director too has set his eyepiece on Merju.

6.8

Year:

1969

Leikkikalugangsteri

Two Finnish toy manufacturers Jim King and Krakström compete for toys. King's business is far too successful and he is trying to tax fraud with the help of his chamberlain. Both toy manufacturers hire gangster chief Niitti to handle their twilight jobs, but not everything goes according to plan.

5.6

Year:

1969

Näköradiomiehen ihmeelliset siekailut

4.8

Year:

1969

Noin 7 veljestä

6.1

Year:

1968

Pähkähullu Suomi

A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the film’s whole premise is about presenting Finland in hilarious fashion to foreigners and perhaps also making fun of some of the myths of Finnish culture for Finns themselves.

5.5

Year:

1967

Millipilleri

4.0

Year:

1966

X-Paroni

Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both characters conveniently amnesiac, they start living each other's lives and dating each other's girlfriends, succeeding in their new roles better than in their original ones. Level-headed Kalle soon spots the bad guys who are after the Baron's money, and the Baron brings innovative ideas to the countryside.

4.4

Year:

1964

Hopeaa rajan takaa

In the summer of 1941, the Karelian youths Wist and Anttala decide to seek family silver hidden under Wist's home behind the border line of the truce.

6.0

Year:

1963

Taape tähtenä

3.0

Year:

1962

Mullin mallin

2.0

Year:

1961

Ei ruumiita makuuhuoneeseen

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.

5.0

Year:

1959

Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla

5.0

Year:

1958

Asessorin naishuolet

After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.

6.0

Year:

1958

Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä

3.9

Year:

1957

Vääpelin kauhu

A Finnish military farce about an elderly man who is commanded back to service.

3.8

Year:

1957

Pekka ja Pätkä ketjukolarissa

4.9

Year:

1957

Tyttö lähtee kasarmiin

A girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join the army in time. She is then disguised as a male conscript to save the brother from troubles.

4.3

Year:

1956

Tyttö tuli taloon

Hitchhiking girls Eila and Tilly end up at screenwriter Saku's summer house by mistake, thinking it's their cousin's.

5.0

Year:

1956

Villi Pohjola

A Western comedy about the adventures of Tundra-Tauno in Pohjola and in the village of Utopila which ruled by a greedy mayor.

6.7

Year:

1955