Esa Pakarinen
Also Known As: Esa Pakarinen sr
Biography: Feliks Esaias “Esa” Pakarinen (February 9, 1911 Rääkkylä - April 28, 1989 Varkaus) was a Finnish actor, accordionist, singer, folk artist and entertainer. He was one of the leading figures in post-war rillumarei entertainment. Pakarinen's career as a performing artist lasted for more than 40 years, almost to the last days of his life.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rääkkylä, Finland
Adult: No
Birthday: February 09, 1911
Age: 114 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 28, 1989
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Pekka ja Pätkä lumimiehen jäljillä
Overview: Pete and Runt travel to Lapland to hunt the snowman in the hope of a cash reward, and take Justiina along as a bait.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-07-30
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Pekka ja Pätkä ketjukolarissa
Overview: Justiina Puupää drives her husband Pekka and his friend Pätkä to look for work. The two decide to make money the easy way and try to have an accident after first getting accident insurance. After trying their luck, they hurt their heads and in the hospital, the comrades see each other's more outrageous antics.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä
Overview: Pekka Puupää and Pätkä, who return to Helsinki from an unsuccessful variety show tour, are forced into refresher training, where they are trained as frogmen. During the diving exercises, the friends encounter the mermaid Helmi, whom they help into the bathtub at home, to Justiina's shock. The friends, who have become civilians, eventually end up on a plane bound for Suez, being cornered by UN soldiers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina
Overview: Justiina pushes Pekka and Pätkä to take painting lessons after realizing that art can be a way to earn a living. With the help of the yard children, a painting is created that wins first prize at a contemporary art exhibition. In the meantime, the men, along with their assistant Miss Kaihokielo, have been charged with art theft. After the misunderstanding is cleared up, the Puupääs use the art prize money to convert the house's bomb shelter into a children's clubroom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1959-09-18
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Pekka Puupää kesälaitumilla
Overview: Pekka is given the task of renting a summer place, but real estate agent Aadolf Muikku tricks him into buying a villa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-10-12
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Pekka ja Pätkä puistotäteinä
Overview: Justina urges Pete and Runt to get a job. As a result they meet an orphan boy named Otto while working as a park nannies. They offer to shelter the boy, but at the same time the father Antti, who has returned from the sea, is looking for his son together with Miss Raikas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-03-04
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Pekka ja Pätkä pahassa pulassa
Overview: Justiina gives lessons to friends who are avoiding work and sends them to work. Pekka and Pätkä end up in a woodworking factory, where their job is to nail together the legs of a Christmas tree. The men think they will get rich this way, but through misadventures they end up in many different jobs and being chased by a crowd of admiring women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-12-02
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Kiinni on ja pysyy
Overview: Pekka and Pätkä work as inventors. Pätkä accidentally takes a photograph of bank robbers, who begin to track down the photographer. Soma Koivu, the former secretary of the property manager Kiivas, and police officer Antero Kangas help Pekka and Pätkä catch the robbers at a film studio where Pekka is working as a stand-in for Superman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1955-05-06
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Se alkoi sateessa
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-08-28
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Pekka ja Pätkä neekereinä
Overview: Pete and Runt misinterpret the messages of a career choice machine and try to create a career as African dancers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1960-03-11
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Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla
Overview: Pekka Puupää and Pätkä involuntarily end up in Suez as peacekeepers. After saving the Caliph's daughter Suleiman from kidnappers on two occasions, the Caliph magically reunites the friends with Justiina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-04-25
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Pekka Puupää
Overview: Pete and Runt set up a kindergarten at their home, and unknowingly end up taking care of a kidnapped baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-04-30
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Hei, rillumarei!
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1954-02-19
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Meiltähän tämä käy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1973-10-26
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Pekka ja Pätkä salapoliiseina
Overview: At Justiina's insistence, Pekka and Pätkä are looking for work again and end up starting a detective agency. The first assignment takes the duo on a cruise on Lake Saimaa. Traveling on the same ship are representative Johannes Kulo and his daughter Maija, as well as the lumberjack Jussi, who gets caught up in the duo's misadventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1957-08-23
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Pekka ja Pätkä miljonääreinä
Overview: Trade counselor Lillukka leaves his entire fortune to Pekka Puupää, who, thanks to cartoons and films, has become closer to him than his immediate family, who are pursuing their own interests. Pekka starts running a toy factory and hires a freckle-faced bowling boy as the company's errand boy. Widowed trade counselor Gunilla Lillukka tries to get married to Pätkä, who has been promoted to assistant director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1958-08-29
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Lentävä kalakukko
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-03-13
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Rovaniemen markkinoilla
Overview: Based on a song by the same name. It was the Genre Popularizer for the Rillumarei film and live entertainment genre that drew from the musical couplet genre of light, cleverly written, often satirical songs. Many of these films were based on an existing song, or a song was specifically written to be the foundation of a film.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1951-10-11
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Lännen lokarin veli
Overview: Coal miner Esaias Coolman returns to Finland from his working years in America.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1952-04-25
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Mullin mallin
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1961-04-07
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Rantasalmen sulttaani
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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