Åke Lindman

Acting

Åke Lindman

Born January 11, 1928 · Helsinki, Finland

Died March 3, 2009 · aged 81

Åke Leonard Lindman was a Finnish stage and screen actor, film and stage director. In his youth he was a football player, playing defence for the Finnish national team during the Olympics in Helsinki 1952. His breakthrough as an actor came with his role as the stubborn soldier Lehto in Edvin Laine's movie The Unknown Soldier from 1955.

Known For

The Eagle Has LandedThe Eagle Has Landed · 1976
The Eagle Has Landed
★ 6.61976
MovieAdventureDrama
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
RedsReds · 1981
Reds
★ 6.91981
MovieDramaHistory
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
The White ReindeerThe White Reindeer · 1952
The White Reindeer
★ 6.61952
MovieFantasyHorror
A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.
TelefonTelefon · 1977
Telefon
★ 6.61977
MovieThrillerAction
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
The ChainsawThe Chainsaw · 1983
The Chainsaw
1983
MovieDramaTV Movie
A story of how a team of lumberjacks react when the forest company wants to introduce the chainsaw.
YöjunaYöjuna · 1996
Yöjuna
★ 5.01996
MovieThrillerCrime
A midnight freight train collides with a mysteriously abandoned truck at Rajamäki station, derailing and revealing that its cargo manifests were falsified. Investigation secretary Ari Nykänen uncovers a scheme smuggling explosives out of the country, with evidence pointing to collusion among senior VR executives.
Paradise AmericaParadise America · 1990
Paradise America
★ 4.51990
MovieDramaComedy
Finnish friends escape taxes to Florida.
Rakkaus kahleissaRakkaus kahleissa · 1955
Rakkaus kahleissa
★ 9.01955
MovieDramaCrime
A lock factory worker Pertti would like to marry his girlfriend Verna, but fears they don't have enough money. His brother Martti is a member of a youth gang that is planning a robbery with three other young men. When the boys have to flee at the time of the robbery, Pertti who secretly shadowed them sees an opportunity to solve his money problem.

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Make Like a ThiefMake Like a Thief · 1964
Make Like a Thief
★ 4.01964
MovieCrimeThriller
Arrested for a murder he didn't commit, American adventurer Bart Lanigan is about to be deported from Finland on a freighter. In the Helsinki harbor, he himself becomes a target for a hit man but manages to escape back to land. Lanigan contacts Arvo Mäki, a womanizing local con man recommended to him as a man he could trust. Lanigan is in Finland to catch an American millionaire businessman, Leonard Weston alias Lawrence Walker, who has fled the USA with the company's monies and begun investing them in Finland. Looking for the mysterious L.W. character while trying to get rid of various hit men, Lanigan and Mäki travel around picturesque southern Finland, joined by a pretty night club singer Marja Salo who won't leave Lanigan alone and insists on marrying him.

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