Leif Wager

Leif Wager

Born: February 11, 1922
Died: March 23, 2002
in Helsinki, Finland
Leif Christian Wager was a versatile Finnish actor. Appearing in some 75 feature films and musicals.

Movies for Leif Wager...

Title: Raid
Character: Walden
Released: January 10, 2000
Type: TV
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 for the first killer - and the trail leads inexorably to Raid. Very soon, however, they realise that the guilty party is somewhere else, and the interests of the police and the avenging angel Raid converge. The unholy alliance shows that even those with morals may, to some extent, use immoral means to achieve an end. The Raid series was voted the best TV-programme in Finland year 2000. Tapio Piirainen received an award for best script and best direction. The series was also honoured with a prestigious film award and the Finnish Whodunnit Society's award. The music from the series sold gold and platinum.
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Tuomas Murasen rikos
Title: Tuomas Murasen rikos
Character: Thomas Stenwall
Released: April 17, 1994
Type: Movie
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Title: The Hobbits
Character: Elrond
Released: March 29, 1993
Type: TV
Hobitit is a Finnish live action fantasy television miniseries originally broadcast in 1993 on Yle TV1. Produced by Olof Qvickström, it is based on the events of the books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Friends, Comrades
Title: Friends, Comrades
Character: Manager Eskeland
Released: November 16, 1990
Type: Movie
The boisterous good humor of Jurmala, the nickel-mine owner, is, if anything, only barely dented by the raging battles in Finland before, during and after World War Two. In fact, everywhere he goes, he meets prospective customers on all sides of the conflict with his all-inclusive greeting "Friends, Comrades." Indeed, the resource he is wrenching from the earth's bowels is necessary to all forms of industrial activity, and is especially necessary for military applications. Thus, he has no reason to fear that he will ever run out of customers. This doesn't prevent him from using every possible means to entice them. At home, his relationship with his wife is not so prosperous, and they resort to some extraordinary means to try and keep on an even keel.
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Stiller, Garbo & jag
Title: Stiller, Garbo & jag
Released: March 8, 1988
Type: Movie
One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees because Charly's host was Mauritz Stiller, and Ruben is the grandson of Mauritz's brother.
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The Enchanted Road
Title: The Enchanted Road
Character: Uncle Fabian
Released: December 29, 1986
Type: Movie
Writer and psychiatrist Oscar Parland (1912-1997) narrates this nostalgic story about his early childhood memories and fantasies. Five-year-old Riki spends the summer of 1917 at his cosmopolitan family's summer house by the Gulf of Finland. Surrounded by other children and eccentric adults who speak Swedish, German and Russian, Riki also encounters some fantastic animal characters no one else is able to see.
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Title: Vandrande skugga
Character: Dr. von Adler
Released: October 23, 1984
Type: TV
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Poet and Muse
Title: Poet and Muse
Character: kartanon isäntä
Released: October 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Semi-fictitious biopic of Finnish poet Eino Leino, made with a large budget to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. The film concentrates on his relationships with first wife Freya Schoultz and later muse, poetess L. Onerva. His friends include equally central figures of the Finnish cultural scene in the early 1900s, such as painters Halonen and Gallén-Kallela, and composer Sibelius.
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Päämaja
Title: Päämaja
Character: colonel, Stockholm military agent
Released: November 6, 1970
Type: Movie
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Minne av två måndagar
Title: Minne av två måndagar
Released: January 2, 1965
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's "A Memory of Two Mondays".
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A Barrel of Amontillado
Title: A Barrel of Amontillado
Character: Montresor
Released: June 11, 1963
Type: Movie
Deep beneath the streets of Italy lie the catacombs of the Montresors, filled with barrels of wine and the bones of the dead. One evening, friends Fortunado and Montresor venture below the city with promises of the rare vintage wine Amontillado. Based on the short story by Edgar Allen Poe, Fortunado and Montresor find themselves in a web of betray and revenge, changing their friendship forever.
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The City
Title: The City
Character: Joakim
Released: March 20, 1962
Type: Movie
A man has buried himself in women, in religious ecstasy , in vanity and in his belief in so-called artistic activity. His tension and frustration has only increased. And now he gives it all up. Awaits the bailiff. His personal bankruptcy is signed.
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Olin nahjuksen vaimo
Title: Olin nahjuksen vaimo
Character: Kaarlo Kaski
Released: April 28, 1961
Type: Movie
While living separated, Mr. Kaski finds out that her wife has written a book about their marriage. And the book is not very flattering in tone towards Mr. Kaski and his abilities as a man.
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Toivelauluja
Title: Toivelauluja
Character: 1. konstaapeli
Released: March 23, 1961
Type: Movie
A film centered around a popular Finnish song book
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Tähtisumua
Title: Tähtisumua
Released: January 13, 1961
Type: Movie
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Kaks' tavallista Lahtista
Title: Kaks' tavallista Lahtista
Character: Toivo Lahtinen
Released: May 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Directed by Ville Salminen and written by Reino Helismaa, the musical comedy film Kaks tavallista Lahtista (1960) tells the story of two friends about Usko (Tommi Rinne) and Toivo (Leif Wager), both of whom happen to have same surname, Lahtinen.
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Sven Tuuva the Hero
Title: Sven Tuuva the Hero
Character: Sandels
Released: December 19, 1958
Type: Movie
For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that early 19th-century war and focuses on one of its heroes, Sven Tuuva. Sven is a decent yet not too brilliant soldier, and his exploits are partly balanced here by the charms of a compatriot.
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Kihlaus
Title: Kihlaus
Released: September 15, 1955
Type: Movie
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Ryysyrannan Jooseppi
Title: Ryysyrannan Jooseppi
Character: Carolus Koskelin
Released: April 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Jooseppi Kenkkunen becomes a moonshiner in order to provide for his wife Kaisa-Reetta and his large family during the Prohibition era in Finland.
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Onnelliset
Title: Onnelliset
Character: Lauri Alanko
Released: December 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Pianist Lauri Alango and his wife Annina's fortune is cracked when opera diva Delia Rosati attracts Lauri to accompany her on tour.
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Kolmiapila
Title: Kolmiapila
Character: Jorma
Released: March 29, 1953
Type: Movie
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Saariston tyttö
Title: Saariston tyttö
Character: Antti
Released: January 30, 1953
Type: Movie
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Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli?
Title: Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli?
Character: Uljas Uriel Vaaksanpää
Released: May 16, 1952
Type: Movie
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Mitäs me taiteilijat
Title: Mitäs me taiteilijat
Character: Valde Kannel
Released: March 28, 1952
Type: Movie
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Tåg norrut
Title: Tåg norrut
Character: Mauno Jatinen
Released: March 24, 1952
Type: Movie
The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North.
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…ja Helena soittaa
Title: …ja Helena soittaa
Character: Kari Karstela
Released: December 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Lasse Pöysti's directorial debut film. And Helena Plays On (1951) is based on Aino Räsänen's second novel of the same name in the Helena series. When the Winter War breaks out, Arttu (Jussi Jurkka), the son of Helena (Irma Seikkula) and Jari Junkkeri (Erkki Viljos), go to the front. Arttu proposes to his girlfriend Elina (Leena Häkinen), but the world events come in between. When he is not heard of at the end of the war, the relatives begin to believe that Arttu is dead - everybody else but not Helena.
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Kesäillan valssi
Title: Kesäillan valssi
Character: Lauri Alanko
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: Movie
A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri Alanko and the daughter of the rich Grahn family Annina. Annina’s family doesn’t approve of the relationship, and the couple’s happiness is also threatened by Lauri’s worsening eye disease.
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Rion yö
Title: Rion yö
Character: Leka
Released: August 3, 1951
Type: Movie
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Tanssi yli hautojen
Title: Tanssi yli hautojen
Character: Aleksanteri I
Released: August 11, 1950
Type: Movie
In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule.
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Vain kaksi tuntia
Title: Vain kaksi tuntia
Character: alilääkäri Alec von Wentell
Released: April 29, 1949
Type: Movie
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Haaviston Leeni
Title: Haaviston Leeni
Character: Harri
Released: February 13, 1948
Type: Movie
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Läpi usvan
Title: Läpi usvan
Character: Pertti Jarkamo
Released: January 23, 1948
Type: Movie
Pertti works as telegraph operator on a ship. The ship arrives in Helsinki and Pertti looks forward to meet his mother and the neighbor girl, who he is in love. But his plans change, when he steps into a restaurant with the first officer of the ship on the first ashore.
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Pikajuna pohjoiseen
Title: Pikajuna pohjoiseen
Character: Reino Sompa
Released: June 1, 1947
Type: Movie
The destinies of different kind of people encounter in a passenger train that is traveling from Helsinki to the North. One tragedy after the other appears.
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Nuoruus sumussa
Title: Nuoruus sumussa
Character: Alf Randell
Released: April 12, 1946
Type: Movie
Three young men trying to find a place in society after the war.
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Sylvi
Title: Sylvi
Character: Viktor Halling
Released: September 10, 1944
Type: Movie
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Hevoshuijari
Title: Hevoshuijari
Character: Kuisma
Released: August 15, 1943
Type: Movie
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Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi
Title: Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi
Character: Mauritz Armborg
Released: January 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Wager is Count Mauritz Armborg, the young master of the estate. Linnanheimo plays Katariina (Catherine) the nanny to Mauritz's nieces and nephews. The two fall in love and decide to escape to Italy via Denmark where they have planned to get married. There are always complications because Mauritz's grandmother doesn't want him to marry below him - she has decided that Mauritz is to marry the Swedish beauty, Ingeborg Liliecrona.
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Puck
Title: Puck
Character: Risto Kaarna
Released: November 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Liisa and the renowned composer Raimo Kaarna are fond of each other, but in Kaarna's family history, everyone does not accept the relationship. In addition, Liisa has her own doubts, and a secret that does not endure the daylight.
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Synden Lockar
Title: Synden Lockar
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Daniel Hjort
Title: Daniel Hjort
Character: Johan Fleming
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Based on Josef Julius Wecksell's play. The story is set during the era of political unrest in 1590s Sweden.Daniel Hjort, the grim and lonesome assistant to the powerful Fleming family, finds himself caught up between the two opposing parties when Turku Castle is close to coming under siege. In the midst of this he finds out the truth about the death of his father and sets out to get revenge.