Martti Pennanen
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Martti Pennanen was a Finnish
film
and stage
actor
.
Pennanen began acting relatively late in life in his late 40s in 1970 and has made many appearances in Finnish film
throughout the 1970s and 1980s, appearing in many films such as the 1983 James Bond
spoof
Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit
where he acted alongside actors Ilmari Saarelainen
and Tenho Sauren
. However after 1990 he has appeared only on television
in Finland
retiring in 1999 at the age of 76.
Pennanen was married to Aila Pennanen.
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...
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and stage
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
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...
.
Pennanen began acting relatively late in life in his late 40s in 1970 and has made many appearances in Finnish film
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...
throughout the 1970s and 1980s, appearing in many films such as the 1983 James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
spoof
Parody
A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit
Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit
Agentti 000 ja kuolema kurvit was a 1983 Finnish spy comedy film directed by Visa Mäkinen and written by Ismo Sajakorpi. The film stars Ilmari Saarelainen as James Bond impersonator Joonas G. Breitenfeldt and Tenho Saurén as a bank robber...
where he acted alongside actors Ilmari Saarelainen
Ilmari Saarelainen
Ilmari Saarelainen is a Finnish actor. His career has been mainly based on television.Saarelainen began acting in 1970 appearing in a number of TV series...
and Tenho Sauren
Tenho Saurén
Tenho Saurén was a Finnish actor and comic.He appeared on Finnish television several times in the 1970s and early 1980s always in comedy roles. He starred perhaps most famously as the police officer Reinikainen in the TV series of the same name, a spin-off of Tankki täyteen...
. However after 1990 he has appeared only on television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
in Finland
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...
retiring in 1999 at the age of 76.
Pennanen was married to Aila Pennanen.