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Simo Salminen is a Actor and Writer Finlandais born on 8 november 1932
Simo Veli Atte Salminen (8 November 1932 – 2 September 2015) was a Finnish comic-actor best known for his many performances in movies and television shows by Spede Pasanen. He, Vesa-Matti Loiri and Pasanen himself are the three important players in almost all of Pasanen's productions. He frequently played a supporting or at the very least a relevant secondary character in many of Pasanen's films, usually the bungling assistant to the main character (often portrayed by Pasanen). His characters were frequently also called "Simo" (such as in Pähkähullu Suomi, Koeputkiaikuinen ja Simon enkelit).
Salminen is best remembered for the role of the luckless mechanic Sörselssön, working at an auto-repair shop with the foul-mouthed Härski Hartikainen (Pasanen) in the Uuno Turhapuro film series.
Prior to becoming one of Pasanen's regular actors he was the Clown Water-jump champion of Finland.
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Birth name Simo Veli Atte Salminen
Nationality Finlande
Birth 8 november 1932
Death 2 september 2015 (at 82 years)
Nationality Finlande
Birth 8 november 1932
Death 2 september 2015 (at 82 years)
Salminen is best remembered for the role of the luckless mechanic Sörselssön, working at an auto-repair shop with the foul-mouthed Härski Hartikainen (Pasanen) in the Uuno Turhapuro film series.
Prior to becoming one of Pasanen's regular actors he was the Clown Water-jump champion of Finland.
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, 1h40Directed by Ere Kokkonen
Genres Comedy
Actors Vesa-Matti Loiri, Marjatta Raita, Tapio Hamalainen, Simo Salminen, Pentti Siimes, Helge Herala
Roles Sörsselssön
Rating51%
Uuno disguises as an old man and infiltrates a nursing home for rich old people, where his father-in-law also lives. The ever-hungry Uuno is seduced by the table groaning with food, but as it happens, he never manages to be there at dinnertime.
Directed by Ere Kokkonen
Genres Comedy
Actors Vesa-Matti Loiri, Tapio Hamalainen, Olavi Ahonen, Marjatta Raita, Simo Salminen, Spede Pasanen
Roles Sörsselssön
Rating50%
Uuno Turhapuro becomes the President of Finland. Streets are named after him and honorary companies are arranged for him. He also tries to turn Finland into a kingdom.
Directed by Spede Pasanen
Genres Comedy
Actors Vesa-Matti Loiri, Tapio Hamalainen, Marjatta Raita, Simo Salminen, Spede Pasanen, Heikki Kinnunen
Roles Sörsselssön
Rating54%
Directed by Ere Kokkonen
Genres Comedy
Actors Vesa-Matti Loiri, Marjatta Raita, Tapio Hamalainen, Olavi Ahonen, Spede Pasanen, Simo Salminen
Roles Sörsselssön
Rating59%
Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura, is losing his nerves again. He decides to make a complete change in his life, and moves to the country together with his wife and daughter Elisabeth without telling Uuno about it. Uuno, on the other hand, has decided to try to salvage his marriage by spending a week away from home, without telling his wife where he is. When Uuno returns with flowers, his wife has moved away. Uuno finds a notice left by Elisabeth in the refrigerator, although the notice was written by Uuno's father-in-law. Uuno hears that Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön plan to close down the car service station and go to emergency service work. Uuno joins them.
Directed by Ere Kokkonen
Genres Comedy
Actors Vesa-Matti Loiri, Marjatta Raita, Tapio Hamalainen, Simo Salminen, Spede Pasanen, Satu Silvo
Roles Sörssellssön
Rating60%
Uuno Turhapuro (played by Vesa-Matti Loiri) is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a job in a small travel agency and takes a group of Finnish tourists to Marbella, Spain. Unfortunately Uuno's father-in-law Tuura (Tapio Hämäläinen) is in the group, too, with his wife (Marita Nordberg) and daughter, Uuno's wife Elisabet (Marjatta Raita). Tuura tries to get a signature to an important paper from a minister who's having a holiday in the area. Meanwhile, Uuno just relaxes and enjoys the sun.
Directed by Ere Kokkonen
Genres Comedy
Actors Vesa-Matti Loiri, Marjatta Raita, Spede Pasanen, Simo Salminen, Tapio Hamalainen, Hannele Lauri
Roles Sörsselssön
Rating66%
Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the army in his youth. As is typical of the Turhapuro series, his family and friends become closely tied in with these events. His friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön return to the army for a refresher course and by chance Uuno's father-in-law, Councillor Tuura is made the Finnish Defence Minister. As Uuno's superiors in the army learn of the high position of his father-in-law, they incorrectly deduce that Uuno has been sent to seek flaws in the leadership and conduct of the army. They try to bribe the completely oblivious Uuno with promotions to have him keep his mouth shut. Within one week, Uuno has been promoted from private to major.
Directed by Spede Pasanen
Genres Comedy
Actors Simo Salminen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Tapio Hamalainen, Olavi Ahonen, Spede Pasanen
Roles Simo Seivästö
Rating53%
Mathematician Mauno Mutikainen (Pasanen) is accidentally pronounced dead as a result of an operation where a splinter is being removed from his finger, which he got by scratching his head. He is then cloned into a test-tube adult, a play on the phrase test-tube child, named Richard Ilyevitch Jyrä by his creator, father and mother, Dr. Jyrä (Hämäläinen), his name is intended to appeal to both American and Soviet sensibilities.
Directed by Ere Kokkonen
Genres Comedy
Actors Vesa-Matti Loiri, Marjatta Raita, Tapio Hamalainen, Ritva Valkama, Olavi Ahonen, Simo Salminen
Roles Lörssön
Rating58%
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.
Directed by Ere Kokkonen
Genres Comedy
Actors Vesa-Matti Loiri, Marjatta Raita, Tapio Hamalainen, Spede Pasanen, Simo Salminen, Seela Sella
Roles Jaska
Rating61%
It is the first anniversary of Uuno (Vesa-Matti Loiri) and Elisabet (Marjatta Raita). Uuno has placed a bet with his friend Härski-Hartikainen (Spede Pasanen) 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 (Seppo Laine) 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 (Tapio Hämäläinen). 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.
Numbskull Emptybrook (1973)
, 1h27Directed by Ere Kokkonen
Genres Comedy
Actors Vesa-Matti Loiri, Marjatta Raita, Spede Pasanen, Simo Salminen, Juhani Kumpulainen, Rauni Ikäheimo
Roles Lettunen
Rating58%
The Unhanged (1971)
, 1h25Directed by Vesa-Matti Loiri, Spede Pasanen
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Simo Salminen, Olavi Ahonen, Spede Pasanen, Vesa-Matti Loiri
Roles Tonto
Rating64%
The Lonely Rider (Loiri) and his Indian sidekick Tonto (Salminen) have captured the outlaw Speedy Gonzales (Pasanen), a ruthless gunfighter from the town of Njietponimaistadi. They embark to the town for the reward. After riding through the desert, without water, and fighting against Indians, they discover their heroism has brought them back, full circle.
, 1h25Directed by Ere Kokkonen
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Spede Pasanen, Esko Salminen, Leo Jokela, Ville-Veikko Salminen, Simo Salminen, Olavi Ahonen
Roles Hämeen Hitain
Rating61%
The outlaw Speedy Gonzales rides into town in New York to investigate the death of his brother, Mooses. Despite being met by resistance from the locals, he is determined to solve the crime. Meanwhile, two of the world's worst gunslingers are matching their skills and the desperate desperado Clyde is trying to rob a bank with abysmal success...
Directed by Ere Kokkonen
Genres Comedy
Actors Spede Pasanen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Leo Jokela, Simo Salminen, Tamara Lund
Roles koomikkotaiteilija Simo Salminen
Rating53%
The plot concerns the character of Mikko Syvärivi (Pasanen) who works as a night-watchman and also becomes an assistant at a Finnish Television Company. His first day at work starts out quite humorously as he is mistaken as a minister in the Finnish parliament by an urging reporter Antti Vasa (Loiri) who takes him to a live TV-interview. Unfortunately due to the incident Vasa is demoted in to reporting on indifferent news-items with a minimal news-crew and often allowed to ask one question.
Toy Gangster (1969)
Directed by Ere Kokkonen
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Spede Pasanen, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Tamara Lund, Simo Salminen, Juhani Kumpulainen, Jukka Sipilä
Roles pääinsinööri Sulo Räntävaara, "Lahtari-Lösse"
Rating53%
Jim King (Spede Pasanen) is the rich owner of a toy company and a constant pain for his closest competitor Krakström (Juhani Kumpulainen) from whom he keeps snatching important toy contracts. As a result, Krakström's company is nearing bankruptcy, which causes friction when King starts dating Krakström's daughter Sylvi (Tamara Lund).
Noin seitsemän veljestä (1968)
, 1h33Genres Comedy
Actors Juhani Kumpulainen, Spede Pasanen, Simo Salminen, Leo Jokela, Helge Herala, Vesa-Matti Loiri
Roles Mauno Munalukko
Rating62%