Risto Salmi

Risto Salmi

Born: July 7, 1941
Died: April 27, 2016
in Metsämaa, Finland
Risto Erland Salmi (July 7, 1941 Metsämaa – April 27, 2016) was a Finnish actor. During his approximately 50-year career as an artist, he performed several roles in theater, television and films.

Movies for Risto Salmi...

Ricky Rapper and the Nighthawk
Title: Ricky Rapper and the Nighthawk
Character: Helppoheikki torilla
Released: February 19, 2016
Type: Movie
Ricky Rapper and Nighthawk Ricky find a buried treasure while digging for worms. Archaeological excavations begin at the site, and when a valuable iron-age ring vanishes, it becomes apparent that there's a site-robbing "nighthawk" at work here.
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Big Game
Title: Big Game
Character: Hamara
Released: March 19, 2015
Type: Movie
Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness of Finland. 13-year-old Oskari is on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but instead discovers the President in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their prize, the unlikely duo team up to escape their hunters.
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Garbage Prince
Title: Garbage Prince
Character: Iso-Antti
Released: July 29, 2011
Type: Movie
Jed (19) walks out on his former life, without destination, without explanation, and gets on a train. He ends up by happenstance in a small eastern town in Finland where he soon comes face to face with the daily rigors of independent life. Coping becomes a challenge for him almost to the point of being an obsession. Of all the people in town, Jed seems to constantly run across the prickly and quick-witted Lulu (17). Gradually, without either of them admitting it, their relationship changes from bickering, picking on each other and a battle of wills to friendship, and as can happen, finally to love.
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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Title: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Young Pietari lives with his reindeer-herding father in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, a nearby excavation makes a frightening discovery and an evil Santa Claus is unleashed…
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Title: Taivaan tulet
Character: Pekka Väänänen
Released: January 24, 2007
Type: TV
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Legend of the Lake Bodom
Title: Legend of the Lake Bodom
Character: Armas Uolevi Karjula
Released: December 18, 2006
Type: Movie
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Title: Turvetta ja timantteja
Character: P.A. Turpeinen
Released: December 13, 2006
Type: TV
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The Leaning Tower
Title: The Leaning Tower
Character: Leo
Released: October 20, 2006
Type: Movie
A middle-aged mental patient suffering from a split personality travels to Italy where his two personalities set off all kinds of confusing developments.
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Man Exposed
Title: Man Exposed
Character: Erkki
Released: September 15, 2006
Type: Movie
A story of a priest, who considers himself as a rebel is suddenly asked to run for bishop of Turku.
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Jackpot
Title: Jackpot
Character: Rauno Järvelä
Released: February 17, 2006
Type: Movie
Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting.
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For the Living and the Dead
Title: For the Living and the Dead
Character: Henrik
Released: February 18, 2005
Type: Movie
An ordinary suburban family is shattered when their youngest son is killed in an accidental fire while locked inside the family's car on their yard. Mother Marja can't stop crying, father Jaakko can't cry at all but blames himself for the fire. Their remaining son Timo develops problems at school because of his constant worries about his parents' safety. In their grief, Marja and her sister Leena have to confront an old family secret, their little sister's accidental death for which Leena has quietly blamed herself through decades.
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Dog Nail Clipper
Title: Dog Nail Clipper
Character: Horseman Turpeinen
Released: February 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws. Together with his helpful war buddy Eetvi, Mertsi joins a lumber camp in the middle of a freezing winter, tries hard but finds the work there too strenuous for his body and mind. While he still sees nightmares about the war, in the daytime he keeps dreaming and worrying about the dog...
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Pearls and Pigs
Title: Pearls and Pigs
Character: Alko's Salesman
Released: August 29, 2003
Type: Movie
When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner.
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Title: Mooseksen perintö
Character: P.A. Turpeinen
Released: December 12, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Peräkamaripojat
Character: P.A. Turpeinen
Released: January 3, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Raid
Character: Perse-Arska
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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A Long Hot Summer
Title: A Long Hot Summer
Character: Lajunen's Father
Released: March 26, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of a rock band "Kalle Päätalo" in the 1980s.
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Title: Hovimäki
Character: Antti Matinpoika
Released: March 10, 1999
Type: TV
The lives of the aristocratic Lindhof family and their servants from 1798 to 1907.
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The Swan and the Wanderer
Title: The Swan and the Wanderer
Character: Rautakauppias
Released: February 19, 1999
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of two very popular Finnish singer/songwriters: Tapio Rautavaara and Repe Helismaa, who worked together until their relationship got frictious for a long time. The film covers the years from 1949 to 1965. Since the film is based on real-life persons it also tells much about the change in Finland during those years and of course much about Finnish popular music.
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Rikos & rakkaus
Title: Rikos & rakkaus
Character: Taisto Toikka
Released: February 5, 1999
Type: Movie
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The Tough Ones
Title: The Tough Ones
Character: Markkula
Released: January 15, 1999
Type: Movie
Häjyt tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convicted, has become a policeman. He tries to help his friends to settle into the small town in Pohjanmaa, but the boys start a black market liquor business instead. The road seems to lead back to the jail.
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Poliisin poika
Title: Poliisin poika
Character: Rekkakuski
Released: November 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The petty criminal Trampas is released from prison and immediately starts planning new jobs with his girlfriend's simpleminded brother Lepsu. They are joined by Trampas's pregnant girlfriend and Jusse, a refugee from Rwanda, as a driver.
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Title: Vain muutaman huijarin tähden
Character: P.A. Turpeinen
Released: February 25, 1998
Type: TV
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I Hired Two Contract Cleaners
Title: I Hired Two Contract Cleaners
Character: Talonmies Pannimaa
Released: November 24, 1997
Type: Movie
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Lahja
Title: Lahja
Character: Naamanka
Released: October 13, 1997
Type: Movie
A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn't succeed in the plan with her husband.
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Title: Pimeän hehku
Character: Risto Nurminen
Released: September 4, 1996
Type: TV
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Pekko ja poika
Title: Pekko ja poika
Character: Unto, Pekon ja Pojan isä
Released: October 28, 1994
Type: Movie
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Lyrics and Lace
Title: Lyrics and Lace
Character: Salvationist
Released: November 6, 1992
Type: Movie
Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people. It's not just a romantic legend. In wry but basically directionless Finnish movie, Paavo Pentikainen plays one of these ungainly beings, a man whose last published work is decades in the past, who probably hasn't written anything in years, but who still has an uncanny knack for precise observation, "pinning the tail on the donkey" almost every time. In the movie, the poet, accompanied by his young assistant, takes a minor celebrity's swaggering tour of small cultural centers and retirement homes.
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Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut
Title: Kiljusen herrasväen uudet seikkailut
Character: Joulupukki
Released: December 21, 1990
Type: Movie
That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for retraining due to poor school performance.
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Irti Maasta
Title: Irti Maasta
Character: Yrjö A. Tiilikainen
Released: May 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A group of Finns have won a cruise and this is how they behave on it.
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Dolly and Her Lover
Title: Dolly and Her Lover
Character: Venkula
Released: February 2, 1990
Type: Movie
Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal activities. Alcoholic Dolly takes Räpsy to live in Kallio, Helsinki, and hopes to move to Paris with her in the spring.
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Title: Häräntappoase
Character: Svante Takkinen
Released: November 15, 1989
Type: TV
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Kolme yötä
Title: Kolme yötä
Character: Baarimikko
Released: April 6, 1989
Type: Movie
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The Moonlight Sonata
Title: The Moonlight Sonata
Character: Motellin isäntä
Released: November 4, 1988
Type: Movie
A female fashion model Anni Stark takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lapland for a vacation. Little does she know that there's a totally lunatic bunch of local hillbillies living in a nearby farmhouse. The plot thickens as one of the residents begins to harass Anni, who is left alone in the wilderness with only her dog to protect her. Too bad for her that her dog turns out to have divided loyalties.
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The Unknown Soldier
Title: The Unknown Soldier
Character: Korpela
Released: December 6, 1985
Type: Movie
Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the so called "Continuation War" (1941-1944).
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The Wrestler
Title: The Wrestler
Character: Maalari
Released: September 26, 1985
Type: Movie
An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.
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Viimeinen keikka
Title: Viimeinen keikka
Character: Niemi
Released: April 12, 1984
Type: Movie
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Minä, siili ja trumpetti
Title: Minä, siili ja trumpetti
Character: Ailun isä
Released: April 19, 1983
Type: Movie
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Iso vaalee
Title: Iso vaalee
Character: Unto
Released: January 21, 1983
Type: Movie
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Tie
Title: Tie
Character: Punkki
Released: October 23, 1981
Type: Movie
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Title: Isännät ja isäntien varjot
Character: Pappi
Released: December 29, 1976
Type: TV
Time of depression in the 1930s. "Poverty and abundant wealth have simultaneously filled the earth's circle. The peasant's cornerstones are moving." Iso Herneinen's mistress is dead and grief lives in Jopi's heart. Jopi's grown-up boys are hardly happy. The eldest boy fell in love with the house maid. The middle one is, according to Jopi, a strange modern product. The youngest does not enjoy working or working at home. The three-part TV series tells about the peasant's collapse in years of depression.