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Vesa-Matti Loiri

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Vesa-Matti Loiri (4 January 1945 – 10 August 2022) was a Finnish actor, comedian, singer and musician. He is best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro. Loiri was one of Finland's most appreciated entertainment artists.

04-01-1945

Birthday

Capricorn

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

67

Total Films

Vesku Loiri

Also known as (male)

Helsinki, Finland

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

67 Works

producer

0 Works

director

5 Works

writer

3 Works

other

1 Works

Sanoilla on hintansa - elokuva Juha Junnu Vainiosta

Sanoilla on hintansa - elokuva Juha Junnu Vainiosta

A dramatized documentary film about singer-songwriter and lyricist Juha "Junnu" Vainio from Kotka.
0.0

Year:

2023

Master Cheng

Master Cheng

Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world to a remote village in Finland. His wife died recently in an accident, and Cheng wanted to have a break from everything by traveling with his son to see an old Finnish friend who lives on a farm in the countryside of Finland. It’s the most remote place Cheng can imagine with endless forests, thousands of lakes, a country with entire population of one-fifth of Cheng’s home town, Shanghai.
7.1

Year:

2019

Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre

Helsinki Mansplaining Massacre

One woman’s desperate struggle to survive a horde of men with frail egos, who just want to explain everything to her. But the biggest horror may be closer to her than she thinks.
5.5

Year:

2018

Homecoming

Homecoming

Tiina decides to reconnect with his aged and bohemian father living alone. With her reluctant daughter and new husband, they move in and start to renovate the old house. However, neither the renovation nor facing the past is effortless.
4.6

Year:

2015

Road North

Road North

A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other again.
6.1

Year:

2012

The Storage

The Storage

Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.
5.1

Year:

2011

Vesku from Finland

Vesku from Finland

"Vesku from Finland" is a film about Vesa-Matti Loiri alias Vesku, probably the most popular film and TV comedian in Finland. He has created a significant career also as a singer, performer, writer and as a sportsman. He has recorded several albums, from folk songs and couplets to tangos. Some of his recordings are based on the lyrics of Hermann Hesse or Eino Leino, the infamous Finnish poet. During his unique career he has played in more than 60 films and recorded 30 albums.
6.4

Year:

2010

The Magnetic Man

The Magnetic Man

A look at the life and music of Pekka Streng who died at the age of 26 in 1975.
5.5

Year:

2009

Shadow of the Eagle

Shadow of the Eagle

The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive dictatorship.
3.2

Year:

2005

Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life

Uuno Turhapuro – This Is My Life

Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime. Meanwhile Sörsselssön enters Uuno for a TV competition named This Is My Life, where contestants tell about their life as viewers vote them either to continue or out of the show. The nursing home elderly watch on TV as Uuno tells the show's host his life story.
4.2

Year:

2004

Kuuhun ja takaisin - keskioluen tarina

Kuuhun ja takaisin - keskioluen tarina

Documentary about medium strength beer in Finland.
0.0

Year:

2004

Tähtikeinu

Tähtikeinu

L. Onerva and Eino Leino - two people, two rebels, prisoners of a difficult love relationship. Along with two passionate poets, there will be a third wheel, a young and talented composer Leevi Madetoja.
5.0

Year:

2003

Bad Boys: A True Story

Bad Boys: A True Story

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.
5.7

Year:

2003

Rumble

Rumble

Finnish Road Movie
5.5

Year:

2002

Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha

Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha

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.
4.1

Year:

2000

Satan in the House

Satan in the House

Woman unexpectedly meets Satan in her attic.
0.0

Year:

1999

Spy Games

Spy Games

A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) fighting to save the world, their lives and secret love in the post cold war Helsinki
4.6

Year:

1999

Blindfolded

Blindfolded

Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to the sea where his father is rumoured to have died. Jontti too must discover that his father is not what he appears to be. When his dad moves away with another woman, Jontti is determined to win him back.
6.3

Year:

1999

Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies

Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies

Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties.
3.5

Year:

1998

Kummeli Kultakuume

Kummeli Kultakuume

Psychiatric patient Elmeri knows about the existence of a gold treasure in Finnish Lapland, hidden there by his late father who somehow managed to capture it from withdrawing German troops on the last days of WW2. His openly gay nurse helps him escape from the mental institution, and the two men slowly find their way up north to reach the gold. On their way, the odd couple meets a cavalcade of even odder characters.
6.6

Year:

1997

Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni

Vääpeli Körmy – taisteluni

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.
4.7

Year:

1994

Uuno Turhapuron poika

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

Ripa Hits the Skids

Ripa Hits the Skids

A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence. A Parasite Deluxe, who barely recalls his previous night, Ripa cruises the bars and meets bank-teller Tiina.
5.8

Year:

1993

Who Is Joe Louis?

Who Is Joe Louis?

The story of Finnish boxer Joni, who brings up a son Simppa from his relationship with Polish girlfriend Eva. The mother left them years ago and returned to Poland. Eve is about to marry, but she still loves Joni.
0.0

Year:

1992

Uuno Turhapuro Suomen Tasavallan Herra Presidentti

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

Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet

Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet

Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.
4.3

Year:

1991

Uuno Turhapuro herra Helsingin herra

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

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

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 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

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

Liian iso keikka

Liian iso keikka

5.0

Year:

1986

Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle

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 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

Turhapuroilmiö

A TV documentary about the Finnish comedy character Uuno Turhapuro.
0.0

Year:

1985

Hei kliffaa hei

Hei kliffaa hei

4.4

Year:

1985

Uuno Turhapuro armeijan leivissä

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

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 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

Jon

Jon

Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the same company. However, the violence follows Jon in Norway too.
5.8

Year:

1983

Ulvova mylläri

Ulvova mylläri

The main character is a miller, who sometimes acts strangely but is otherwise a goodhearted hardworking honest man. He sometimes keeps the villagers up all night by howling. Finally the villagers decide that the miller has to be committed into a mental hospital, where the hero does not have to spend too much time until he escapes. The miller takes to the woods near his home but there he is constantly harassed by the chief of the police with his posse.
5.7

Year:

1982

Uuno Turhapuro menettää muistinsa

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 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

Pedon merkki

Pedon merkki

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.
4.6

Year:

1981

Tup akka lakko

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

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

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

Tykkimies Kauppalan viimeiset vaiheet

Tykkimies Kauppalan viimeiset vaiheet

The story of a man raised in a boy's home and prison who doesn't conform to the rules and discipline of the military.
9.0

Year:

1977

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

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

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

Rakastunut rampa

Rakastunut rampa

Krokelby in the 1920s. Sakris Kukkelman is a crippled, Nietzsche reading village idiot who believes himself to be a romantic hero.
6.2

Year:

1975

Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro

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 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

Hangover

Hangover

Lasse is a car salesman who has vowed to never get married. He wakes up hung over one morning with a wedding ring on his finger and a nude woman in his bed.
3.5

Year:

1973

Hellyys

Hellyys

3.5

Year:

1972

Hirttämättömät

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

Kahdeksas veljes

Jalmar Riivatsalo works in an ad agency and tries to find success both in love and business.
5.1

Year:

1971

Jussi Pussi

Jussi Pussi

Jussi, a student admired by all women, is inadvertently selected to represent both left-wing and right-wing parties in the parliamentary elections. All Jussi cares about is the beautiful, blonde Irmeli.
3.6

Year:

1970

Pohjan tähteet

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

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

Noin 7 veljestä

Noin 7 veljestä

6.1

Year:

1968

Girl of Finland

Girl of Finland

A theater group is training for the play Lapualaisooppera. We see these young people hanging out and talking about what goes on around them. Also sexual matters are involved there and this girl, Tenu, becomes pregnant to Hessu.
6.6

Year:

1967

Ihmisiä elämän pohjalla

Ihmisiä elämän pohjalla

Finnish telefilm adaptation of Gorky’s famous play, The Lower Depths, by director Mikko Niskanen.
0.0

Year:

1967

The Boys

The Boys

When Continuation War started in Summer 1941, German soldiers arrived to Oulu. With their charm they conquered women and town boys. Finnish boys communicated with them on many levels: had trades, worked as interpreters, rotated business, spied on German love adventures and fought with each other about the favor of soldiers. In autumn 1944, the war was ending. Germans left Oulu by leaving behind fragile relationships, bastard kids and unfinished businesses. The most shocking of all was the faith of young Jake...
7.0

Year:

1962