Jussi Jurkka

Jussi Jurkka

Born: June 15, 1930
Died: April 9, 1982
in Turku, Finland
Jussi Jurkka (1930–1982) was a Finnish stage, film and television actor. He was the youngest son of actors Eino and Emmi Jurkka and brother of actors Sakari and Vappu Jurkka.

Movies for Jussi Jurkka...

Title: Parempi myöhään
Released: January 20, 1979
Type: TV
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Viimeinen savotta
Title: Viimeinen savotta
Character: police Karisiira
Released: November 4, 1977
Type: Movie
Follows the life of a pauper child Vike Nilonpoika from the early 1900's to the 1960s. During this time he works as a lumberjack in Lapland after running away from the despotic master. He soon becomes familiar with hookers, card hustlers and alcohol.
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Trust
Title: Trust
Character: G. Castrén
Released: August 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich, Trust (1976) is a Finnish-Soviet historical drama film that follows the relations between Finland and the Soviet Union. In December 1917, the Finnish delegation, composed of Chairman of the Senate Finance Department P.E. Svinhufvud (Vilho Siivola), Senator Carl Enckell (Yrjö Tähtelä) and State Secretary Gustaf Idman (Yrjö Paulo) arrive in St. Petersburg to meet V.I. Lenin (Kirill Lavrov) to gain recognition for the country's independence.
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Meiltähän tämä käy
Title: Meiltähän tämä käy
Character: Ruutanansuon Nestori
Released: October 26, 1973
Type: Movie
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Akseli and Elina
Title: Akseli and Elina
Character: Slukola
Released: December 4, 1970
Type: Movie
A former Red Rebellion leader returns home after being imprisoned for his participation in the Finnish Civil War, but soon finds out that wartime mindsets still linger in the heads of people.
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Päämaja
Title: Päämaja
Character: quartermaster general A. F. Airo
Released: November 6, 1970
Type: Movie
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Miljoonavaillinki
Title: Miljoonavaillinki
Character: Vilhelm
Released: September 29, 1961
Type: Movie
A manager of a company has made an embezzlement just to make the sweet life possible with his lover. An office manager promises to take the blame if the manager promises to behave better.
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Myöhästynyt hääyö
Title: Myöhästynyt hääyö
Character: Otto Mäkinen
Released: November 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Otto and Kaija have celebrated their surprise wedding, but after a coctail party nothing between them is the same as Otto does not remember what actually happened, and the mess is ready when Otto's American uncle who hates women comes for a visit.
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Inspector Palmu's Error
Title: Inspector Palmu's Error
Character: Bruno Rygseck
Released: September 9, 1960
Type: Movie
A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
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Lasisydän
Title: Lasisydän
Character: lasitaitelija
Released: October 16, 1959
Type: Movie
A famous glass artist escapes his busy city life and takes to the road.
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Punainen viiva
Title: Punainen viiva
Character: Puntarpää
Released: September 4, 1959
Type: Movie
The story of the first elections in Finland
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Verta käsissämme
Title: Verta käsissämme
Character: Viktor Aaltona
Released: November 21, 1958
Type: Movie
After returning home from being a prisoner of war Viktor gets a job from his friend Rolf with whom he had served. The men trust each other until Viktor meets Rolf’s wife Astrid.
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Musta rakkaus
Title: Musta rakkaus
Character: Pauli Haantie
Released: April 5, 1957
Type: Movie
Marjatta lives in poor conditions in Tampere with her widowed father Arttu who works as a factory worker. Marjatta gets to know engineering student Pauli whose constantly worsening mental health problems and jealousy become a threat to Marjatta and her close circle.
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Kuriton sukupolvi
Title: Kuriton sukupolvi
Character: Galileo Varavaara
Released: March 29, 1957
Type: Movie
Aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his study) and back to real life. He can hardly recognize his rebellious teenage kids and materialistic wife who hardly seem to notice his existence. The only person who is interested in the professor's work is Marja, his son's girlfriend and freshman at the university. An innocent infatuation flares up between the old man and the young girl, while the professor's family is only interested in the prize money awarded to the professor by an international jury for his academic achievements.
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Pää pystyyn Helena
Title: Pää pystyyn Helena
Character: Arttu Junkkeri
Released: February 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Grandmother Helena Junkkeri is working on a farm that her widowed son Arttu is unable to take on. Taina Raitalo who arrives at the house as a childminder makes the grieving man smile again, and Artu's little sister Päivi in turn delights the entire Junkkeri family with her achievements.
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Rintamalotta
Title: Rintamalotta
Character: Erik Vuori
Released: November 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Irma has been sent to the front immediately after her marriage to Erik Vuori. Irma and her new "Lotta" companions find themselves in many dangerous situations during the fighting of the Continuation War. Irma is also concerned about Erik's loyalty.
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Ratkaisun päivät
Title: Ratkaisun päivät
Character: Veikko Lepistö
Released: October 11, 1956
Type: Movie
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Silja – nuorena nukkunut
Title: Silja – nuorena nukkunut
Character: Armas
Released: April 26, 1956
Type: Movie
In the 1910s, beautiful young Silja loses both parents and ends up working as a maid at wealthier farms around her village. She is courted by a number of bachelors, ranging from simple farmhand Väinö to sophisticated young student Armas whom she meets when working for a charming old professor. However, Silja's health starts to deteriorate, and when the Finnish Civil War breaks up in 1918, she is inadvertently involved in a small incident after which her loyalties are questioned by both the Reds and the Whites.
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Jokin ihmisessä
Title: Jokin ihmisessä
Character: Kauko
Released: April 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Pitch-noir melodrama about young Kauko's endless obsession and love-hate-relationship with Osmi, a girl he has known since childhood. Standing at her death bed, Kauko reminisces his years spent as a sailor, prisoner, smuggler, and a soldier in the Second World War, while Osmi manages to evolve from prostitution to a seemingly happy family life with someone else.
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The Unknown Soldier
Title: The Unknown Soldier
Character: Lammio
Released: December 23, 1955
Type: Movie
It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns – the war has begun.
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Sankarialokas
Title: Sankarialokas
Character: Nilsson
Released: July 28, 1955
Type: Movie
Sankarialokas is a parody about military life from year 1955.
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Tähtisilmä
Title: Tähtisilmä
Character: Lauri Raunio
Released: April 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Poor orphan coffee delivery girl loves a poor painter who can't sell his artworks. Painter likes delivery girl, but has stuck in a friend zone. Delivery girl tries to help the painter to get forward in his career, but meanwhile a rich woman becomes too interested towards the painter.
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Näkemiin Helena
Title: Näkemiin Helena
Character: Arttu Junkkeri
Released: February 18, 1955
Type: Movie
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Laivaston monnit maissa
Title: Laivaston monnit maissa
Character: Pentti
Released: July 16, 1954
Type: Movie
Sailor is brought by the police as a recruit to the navy.
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Kovanaama
Title: Kovanaama
Character: Prisoner
Released: January 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Lasse Pöysti plays a young reporter named Esko Pekuri who thinks he's got a front-page story. But every article he writes goes in press as minor news. He gets a fantastic idea to impersonate a gangster and write an article about prison life.
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The Bridal Wreath
Title: The Bridal Wreath
Character: Allan Smith
Released: January 15, 1954
Type: Movie
A story about an upper-class student and a poor servant girl who fall in love despite everyone being against it.
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Kolmiapila
Title: Kolmiapila
Character: Janne
Released: March 29, 1953
Type: Movie
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Yö on pitkä
Title: Yö on pitkä
Character: Jussi Virta
Released: October 31, 1952
Type: Movie
Åke Strandberg has managed to get a fine education and a good job at the bank, but he wants more. He wants to get rich no matter what. After holidays with his girl Rita, he comes back to Helsinki completely broke and meets up with his buddy Jussi in a bar. For months they embezzle money from the bank, but eventually do realize they have to cover the missing amount by orchestrating and committing a robbery which will then rouse the interest of the police. A hide and seek follows as they try to make their way abroad.
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…ja Helena soittaa
Title: …ja Helena soittaa
Character: Arttu Junkkeri
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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Irmeli, seitsentoistavuotias
Title: Irmeli, seitsentoistavuotias
Character: Pertti (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1948
Type: Movie