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Vesa-Matti Loiri

While Vesa-Matti Loiri, born January 4, 1945 in Helsinki, Finland, would become one of his country’ biggest movie stars, he also enjoyed a side career in music. He landed his first film role while still a teenager, and in 1968’s Noin seitsemän veljestä he worked for the first time with screenwriter Spede Pasanen. Pasanen would, three years later, develop a comedy program Spede Show, on which Loiri would appear as the comedy character Uuno Turhapuro. When the series ended in 1973, the two developed a string of successful movies based on the character, producing 20 movies over the ...