Matti Mäntylä
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Matti Mäntylä is a Finnish
actor
who has worked predominantly on Finnish television
.
Mäntylä began acting in 1979 and has made many appearances mostly on TV in Finland since the early 1980s although he had appeared in several films such as the 1983 James Bond
spoof
Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit
where he acted alongside actors Ilmari Saarelainen
and Tenho Sauren
.
He had a small role in the 2005 Timo Koivusalo
film Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa
alongside actors such as Mikko Leppilampi
. More recently he appeared on Finnish television in FC Venus, 2005 and in two episodes of "Presidentit" in 2006.
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 has worked predominantly on Finnish television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
.
Mäntylä began acting in 1979 and has made many appearances mostly on TV in Finland since the early 1980s although he had appeared in several 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...
.
He had a small role in the 2005 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....
film 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:...
alongside actors such as Mikko Leppilampi
Mikko Leppilampi
Mikko Johannes Leppilampi is a Finnish actor and musician who is the son of Jukka Leppilampi , a Finnish gospel musician. Leppilampi is considered to be one of the most promising stars of Finland's movie industry in the new millennium...
. More recently he appeared on Finnish television in FC Venus, 2005 and in two episodes of "Presidentit" in 2006.