1978Nominee
Best Performance
Piilopirtti
Risto Mäkelä
Actor
Raahe, Finland
January 14, 1924
Biography
Risto Väinö Kalevi Mäkelä (14 January 1924 Raahe - March 19, 1992 Helsinki) was a Finnish actor. The most significant roles of Mäkelä's film career take place in the early 1960s. From 1945 Mäkelä starred in the theater. He became known for Pyynik's summer theater, where he starred in the 1940s, well before his film career began. There, in his mid-1960s, his bravery role was Colonel Karjula of the Unknown Soldier. Mäkelä starred in the Pori and Tampere theaters, the Helsinki National Theater-Work Theater and the Finnish National Theater and visited the Radio Theater several times. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1970Nominee
Best Performance
Akseli and Elina
1960Winner
Best Performance
Autotytöt
Career Highlights
1980Highlight
Best Performance
Lepakkolinna
1978Highlight
Best Performance
An Unknown Friend
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Lepakkolinna
An Unknown Friend
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