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Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen (10 April 1930 – 7 September 2001) was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor, who has been called an "all-around entertainer". During his career he directed, wrote, produced or acted in about 50 movies and participated in numerous TV productions, including the comedy Spede Show and the game-show Speden Spelit. Much of his more commercial work was in collaboration with Vesa-Matti Loiri (whose most popular character created by Pasanen was Uuno Turhapuro; first in TV sketches and then in a long-lasting series of motion pictures) and Simo Salminen. Pasanen's films and TV shows, often made quickly and on a low budget, usually received little critical recognition but were popular among Finnish audiences from the 1960s onwards. He was the owner of his own film production company, Filmituotanto Spede Pasanen Ky. Pasanen was ranked 17th at the Suuret suomalaiset competition show broadcast by Yleisradio.
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Uuno Turhapuro becomes the President of Finland. Streets are named after him and honorary companies are arrange...
Uuno Turhapuro is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a j...
Uuno Turhapuro is a lazy man who abhors manual labor, but has the ability to talk himself out of any sticky sit...
Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties.
Uuno is forced to complete his mandatory military service when it is revealed that he only spent one day in the...
Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinema...
Uuno's father-in-law councillor Tuura moves to the country with his wife and daughter Elisabeth. Uuno joins the...
Uuno Turhapuro has lost his memory and thinks he's a woman. His friend Sörsselssön has lost his memory too and...
It is the first anniversary of Uuno and Elisabet. Uuno has placed a bet with his friend Härski-Hartikainen a ye...
Uuno Turhapuro reads guide books to learn how to be an orchestra conductor and a secret agent. Meanwhile, his f...
In the summer of 1941, the Karelian youths Wist and Anttala decide to seek family silver hidden under Wist's ho...
After the death of his long-time housekeeper, a meticulous assessor has trouble finding a new one.
Uuno moves in flight cargo to Helsinki for the search of a rich, beautiful wife. He buys elegant clothes for ei...
Uuno's father-in-law is running for president and to avoid embarrassment pressures Uuno to finally get a job, w...
Two Finnish PI:s are hunted by a gang specialized to counterfeit banknotes from Malaga to Finland and Mallorca...
Pekka Puupää and Pätkä, who return to Helsinki from an unsuccessful variety show tour, are forced into refreshe...
A film that pushes every stereotype imaginable about Finland, and then some. Indeed, coming in the same year as...
A Western comedy about the adventures of Tundra-Tauno in Pohjola and in the village of Utopila which ruled by a...
OK, imagine four men in their 40s and 50s. You there? OK, now imagine them wearing suits and playing on a sandb...
Uuno's nose is proved to be so good, that he can smell behind the display window what goods are on the other si...
Mathematician Mauno Mutikainen is accidentally pronounced dead as a result of an operation where a splinter is...
An idle work crew is ordered to go and heat up an abandoned house before it is demolished. A road sign pointing...
A Finnish comedy seen by under 400 viewers upon original release. Never aired on TV or published on home media.
TV studio organizer Mikko Syvärinen becomes the admired comedian K. Ovimikko through a series of mishaps. Howev...
Uuno Turhapuro's brother returns home from Sweden at the same time that Uuno has been seemingly kidnapped.
Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination, though, and the help of...
Two outlaws, The Lonely Rider and the Indian Tonto, have caught (at least they think they have) Speedy Gonzales...
Tarmo, a failed student, tries to win over his uncle, Consul Ö, in the hope of receiving an advance on his inhe...
Speedy Gonzales arrives in a small village in New York to investigate the mysterious death of his brother Moses...
The film is based on characters from the Mänttien TV-asema sketches featured on the Spede Show.
Uuno Turhapuro finds his doppelganger, Hugo, who happens to be a computer genius. Hugo helps Uuno save his fath...
Pekka Puupää and Pätkä involuntarily end up in Suez as peacekeepers. After saving the Caliph's daughter Suleima...
Justiina Puupää drives her husband Pekka and his friend Pätkä to look for work. The two decide to make money th...
Uuno Turhapuro hits his head and loses his memory. Meanwhile, his friend Härski Hartikainen founds a new peace...
