Jukka Virtanen

Jukka Jalmari Virtanen (25 July 1933 – 1 September 2019) was a Finnish entertainer and author. He worked as both a film and television director, actor and host. He was also an accomplished songwriter. Starting originally as a newspaper columnist, Virtanen began his television career in the 1950s and his film career in the 1960s. He won the Rose d'Or in 1965 for the entertainment program Lumilinna (The Cold Old Days). He starred in and directed many films written by Spede Pasanen, including Millipilleri, Pähkähullu Suomi and Noin 7 Veljestä, as well as playing bit parts in the Uuno Turhapuro franchise. He was also the long-standing host of the TV show Levyraati (1980–1997) as well as Runoraati. Additionally, he was a songwriter for a number of prolific Finnish musical artists such as Ilkka Lipsanen.

Works

The Other Side of Hope

A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.

Release Date:2017-02-03

Character:Poker Player

Vote Count:319

Road North

A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other again.

Release Date:2012-08-24

Character:Rintapanttilan setä

Vote Count:30

If You Love

Ada, the pampered daughter of the Minister, crashes drunk with an immigrant and loses her memory. Ada starts dating the victim’s son, Toni, but the relationship is put to the test when the secret is revealed.

Release Date:2010-01-06

Character:Virtasen Jukka

Vote Count:9

The Joulukalenteri

The Joulukalenteri was a 1997 Finnish television miniseries produced by MTV3 that was broadcast again in 1998. It was based on the Danish series The Julekalender from 1991. A Norwegian version was made in 1994. The series came out in December 1997 with one episode per day, concluding on Christmas Eve. The original concept and script of the series, as well as its numerous songs came from the Danish trio of De Nattergale. The Finnish adaptation was directed by Jukka Virtanen and starred Seppo Korjus, Kari Lehtomäki, Raimo Smedberg and Jukka Virtanen. In December 2007 there was a rerun on Subtv and now a DVD and a CD which contains the songs played in the series, can be bought on a special web-site.

Release Date:1997-12-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Narrator / Iki-iäkäs

Episode Count:24

Vote Count:10

Vääpeli Körmy ja etelän hetelmät

The Minister of Defence asks sergeant Körmy to take part in operation, where the United States and Russia are to hand over their nuclear weapons launch equipment and codes to neutral Finland.

Release Date:1992-10-09

Character:2. vakooja

Vote Count:12

Vääpeli Körmy ja vetenalaiset vehkeet

Sergeant Friman is developing an automatic submarine detector that piques the interest of both, Swedish and Russian spies.

Release Date:1991-10-18

Character:Vieraan vallan paha poika Körmyn unessa

Vote Count:11

Vääpeli Körmy ja marsalkan sauva

The colonel's wife's tin pints need to be cleaned up, and Sergeant First Class Körmy tasks two privates to do so.

Release Date:1990-11-02

Character:Levyraadin juontaja

Vote Count:12

Fakta homma

Release Date:1987-10-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Hei kliffaa hei

Release Date:1985-02-08

Character:Jukka Virtanen

Vote Count:7

Menestyksen maku

Release Date:1983-02-04

Character:Jukka Virtanen

Vote Count:1

Kiljusen herrasväki

The Kiljunen family wins a holiday trip to Helsinki and the city will never be the same again.

Release Date:1981-11-20

Department:Writing

Job:Lyricist

Vote Count:1

Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy

Uuno Turhapuro, a useless bum who has married money, creates havoc around his father-in-law's presidential campaign. He dresses up as his long-lost, wealthy brother from America, but things go awry when the real brother appears. At some point Uuno takes up a job at a hardware store, only to warm up a classic TV sketch perfected years earlier by the film's writer-producer Spede Pasanen. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki

Release Date:1978-08-25

Character:Poliisi Jukka Virtanen

Vote Count:10

Häpy endkö? Eli kuinka Uuno Turhapuro sai niin kauniin ja rikkaan vaimon

Uuno moves in flight cargo to Helsinki for the search of a rich, beautiful wife. He buys elegant clothes for eight marks from an estate auction and in two weeks becomes the most pursued bachelor in town, charming all the women. He also starts as a waiter in Vaaleanpunainen sika (Pink Pig), which starts the first quarrels between him and his father-in-law.

Release Date:1977-08-26

Character:Pappi

Vote Count:13

Lottovoittaja UKK Turhapuro

It is the first anniversary of Uuno and Elisabet. Uuno has placed a bet with his friend Härski-Hartikainen a year ago, that if Uuno can take just one year of marriage with Elisabet, Hartikainen will treat him a festive dinner. However, Hartikainen buys a lottery ticket for Uuno, who agrees to deduct it from his debt – and the festive dinner is reduced to a can of milk and half a sausage. As it happens, Uuno becomes the lottery winner of 1.5 million marks, only to soon realize he doesn't own a single penny yet. Mister Tossavainen arrives and offers to finance Uuno before he actually gets the jackpot. Thus, Uuno gets to live a rich live on credit. He buys a raccoon fur, leopard swimming trunks and a couple of Mercedes-Benzes. Women begin to fancy Uuno and so does his father-in-law. As time goes by it is revealed, though, that Uuno is not actually a lottery winner, and so he has to escape the anger of others to Härski's car repair shop.

Release Date:1976-08-27

Vote Count:13

Uuno Turhapuro

Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.

Release Date:1973-08-24

Character:Kalevi Ketanen, "jonglöörien kuningas"

Vote Count:16

Speedy Gonzales – noin 7 veljeksen poika

Release Date:1970-08-28

Character:Pat

Vote Count:9

Näköradiomiehen ihmeelliset siekailut

Release Date:1969-02-28

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:10

Noin 7 veljestä

Release Date:1968-08-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Tuck

Vote Count:8

Black on White

Juha is a sales manager of a refrigerator company. His perfect-looking family and glittering array of modern kitchen appliances have just been featured in a magazine article, but in reality Juha is a womanising chauvinist more at home on the road than with his family.

Release Date:1968-03-15

Character:TV director

Vote Count:12

Pähkähullu Suomi

A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as Finland’s 50th anniversary, the film’s whole premise is about presenting Finland in hilarious fashion to foreigners and perhaps also making fun of some of the myths of Finnish culture for Finns themselves.

Release Date:1967-08-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:10

Millipilleri

Release Date:1966-08-16

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Tappaja

Vote Count:4

The Cold Old Days

Restorer stumbles upon ghosts in an old castle.

Release Date:1965-03-27

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Iloinen Linnanmäki

Two competing hair care companies demonstrate their products on stage at a Helsinki amusement park, using celebrities from television, the hottest new media of the early 1960s.

Release Date:1960-11-04

Character:Hamunen

Vote Count:3