Esko Nikkari was a prolific Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 who made more than 70 appearances on film and television

Television

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. He debuted in 1974 in the movie Karvat.

Nikkari was a workhorse of the Kaurismäki brothers, with whom he first worked on Rikos ja rangaistus in 1983. His last role with Aki Kaurismäki

Aki Kaurismäki

-Career:After studying Media Studies at the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment , Dostoyevsky's famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki...

 was in Man without a Past in 2002. He starred in the 1994

1994 in film

1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...

 film Aapo

Aapo

Aapo was a 1994 Finnish film directed by Tero Jartti and based on a short story by Runar Schildt. The screenplay was written by Jari Hietanen. The film was based around the year 1918. Taisto Reimaluoto portrayed Aapo.-Cast:*Taisto Reimaluoto .... Aapo...

 opposite actors such as Taisto Reimaluoto

Taisto Reimaluoto

Taisto Reimaluoto is a Finnish actor.Reimaluoto began his career in films and in 1994, he appeared in Aapo as the lead character....

, Ulla Koivuranta

Ulla Koivuranta

Ulla Koivuranta is a Finnish actress.She played the role of Lempi in the 1994 film Aapo.-Filmography:*Hyvän tekijät .... Nainen työvoimatoimistossa... aka Good Deeds...

 and Kai Lehtinen

Kai Lehtinen

Kai Lehtinen is a Finnish actor best known for his work in the Finnish TV-series Raid....

. More recently, he has appeared in a number of Timo Koivusalo

Timo Koivusalo

Timo Johannes Koivusalo is a Finnish actor, director, writer, columnist, composer and musician. His most successful film to date was Työnnän syvälle kammioon, which debuted in the movie theaters in 2001....

 films such as Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa

Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa

Shadow of the Two-headed Eagle is a 2005 Finnish film directed and written by Timo Koivusalo.-Plot:The film is about an early twentieth century Finnish poet under the Russian regime.-Cast:...

 (2005

2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

), which is the last full-length movie he appeared in.

Select filmography

• Rikos ja Rangaistus  (1983)
• Klaani - tarina Sammakoitten suvusta  (1984)
• Niskavuori (1984)
• Shadows in Paradise
  Shadows in Paradise
  Shadows in Paradise is a 1986 Finnish black comedy romantic comedy film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film stars Kati Outinen as Ilona and Matti Pellonpää as Nikander. Ilona is a supermarket check-out clerk who meets Nikander, a lonely garbage man, and they develop romantic feelings...
  
    (1986)
• Jäähyväiset presidentille  (1987)
• Pohjanmaa (1988)
• Ariel (1988)
• Ihmiselon ihanuus ja kurjuus  (1988)
• Talvisota  (1989)
• The Match Factory Girl
  The Match Factory Girl
  The Match Factory Girl is a 1990 Finnish/Swedish comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film is about a match factory worker who lives a dull and uneventful life. She is picked up by a man at a nightclub and she sleeps with him. He gets her pregnant then wants nothing to do...
  
    (1990)
• Veturimiehet heiluttaa  (1992)
• Pekko aikamiespoika  (1993)
• Aapo
  Aapo
  Aapo was a 1994 Finnish film directed by Tero Jartti and based on a short story by Runar Schildt. The screenplay was written by Jari Hietanen. The film was based around the year 1918. Taisto Reimaluoto portrayed Aapo.-Cast:*Taisto Reimaluoto .... Aapo...
  
    (1994)
• Pekko ja poika  (1994)
• Kivenpyörittäjän kylä  (1995)
• Pekko ja massahurmaaja  (1995)
• Pekko ja muukalainen  (1996)
• Drifting Clouds
  Drifting Clouds (film)
  Drifting Clouds is a 1996 Finnish film directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen and Markku Peltola. The film is the first in Kaurismäki's Finland trilogy, the other 2 films being The Man Without a Past and Lights in the Dusk.- Plot :Ilona Koponen , a head waitress at...
  
    (1996)
• Pekko ja unissakävelijä  (1997)
• Vaiennut kylä  (1997)
• Kuningasjätkä  (1998)
• The Swan and the Wanderer
  The Swan and the Wanderer
  The Swan and the Wanderer is a Finnish film telling the story of two very popular Finnish singer/songwriters, Tapio Rautavaara and Reino Helismaa , who worked together until their relationship got frictious for a long time...
  
    (1998)
• Juha (1999)
• Lakeuden kutsu (1999)
• Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha  (2000)
• Rentun ruusu
  Rentun Ruusu
  Rentun Ruusu is a 2001 Finnish biographical film drama directed and written by Timo Koivusalo.The film won an award and nomination at the Jussi Awards....
  
    (2001)
• The Man Without a Past
  The Man Without a Past
  The Man Without a Past is a 2002 Finnish comedy-drama film directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen and Juhani Niemelä. It is the second installment in Kaurismäki's Finland trilogy, the other two films being Drifting Clouds and Lights in the Dusk...
  
    (2002)
• Umur (2002)
• Sibelius
  Sibelius (film)
  Sibelius is a 2003 Finnish film biography of Jean Sibelius directed and written by Timo Koivusalo. It is the first full-length feature film about the famous composer.-Cast:*Martti Suosalo as Jean Sibelius*Heikki Nousiainen as Ben Haenni...
  
    (2003)
• Vieraalla maalla  (2003)
• Shadow of the Eagle  (2005)
• Isiä ja Hirviöitä (2005)

TV roles

• Kylmäverisesti sinun (2000)
• Team Ahma (1998)
• Kotikatu
  Kotikatu
  Kotikatu is a Finnish drama television series broadcast on YLE TV1. Its first episode aired on August 24, 1995 and its last episode will air on December 8, 2012. It is the longest running Finnish drama television series....
  
   (1995)
• Hyvä veli  (1995)
• Lentsu (1990)

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