Kauko Helovirta

Finnish actor
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroFinnish actor
PlacesFinland
wasActor Stage actor
Work fieldFilm, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender
Male
Birth21 October 1924, Juupajoki
Death13 September 1997Helsinki (aged 72 years)
The details

Biography

Kauko Kustaa Helovirta (Hellström, 21 October 1924, Juupajoki – 13 September 1997, Helsinki, Finland) was a Finnish film actor.
Helovirta entered film in 1950 and made about 40 Finnish films between then and 1995.
Helovirta starred in the 1977 film alongside actor Antti Litja in Jäniksen vuosi a film about a Finnish man from Helsinki who leaves to find a new life in the wilderness.
Towards the end of his career in the mid 1990s he appeared on television.

Selected filmography

  • Sven Tuuva the Hero (1958)
  • The Boys (1962)
  • Here, Beneath the North Star (1968)
  • Aksel and Elina (1970)
  • Borrowing Matchsticks (1980)

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