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Risto Mäkelä

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Movies: 24Series: 3

TMDB ID: 1123294

IMDb ID: nm0617423

Known for: Acting

Born: January 14, 1924

Died: March 19, 1992

Age: 68

Place of birth: Raahe, Finland

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1960 - 1983

Years active: 24

Average TMDB rating: 7.25

Wikidata: Q5438663

Also known as

Risto Väinö Kalevi Mäkelä • Ристо Мякеля

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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