Herman "Hemmo" Kallio (19 April 1863 – 8 September 1940) was a Finnish stage and film actor and playwright.

Career

Born Herman Puttonen, he officially changed his surname to Kallio in 1906. Herman began his professional career as a print shop director. He began his acting career in 1882 at the Helsinki Arkadia theater, then moved to the Finnish Theatre (now, the Finnish National Theatre), where he was engaged until he retired from the stage in the late 1930s. His long stint at the theater included a repertoire of over four hundred roles. From the 1920s Kallio began appearing in roles in Finnish films, often cast in fatherly roles. The first of which was the 1920 Teuvo Puro-directed drama ''Ollin oppivuodet''. One of his most popular film roles was that of Anna-Liisa's father in the 1922 Teuvo Puro and Jussi Snellman-directed silent film drama ''

Anna-Liisa ''Anna-Liisa'' is a 1922 Finnish silent film directed by Teuvo Puro and Jussi Snellman based on the eponymous play by Finnish writer Minna Canth. Plot Rural Finland at the end of the 19th century: 19-year-old Anna-Liisa, daughter of farmer ...

'', based on the eponymously titled 1895 play by Finnish writer

Minna Canth Minna Canth (; born Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnson; 19 March 1844 – 12 May 1897) was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow raising seven children. Her work addresse ...

. Most of his

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. Hemmo Kallio died in Helsinki in 1940. He is the grandfather of Finnish actor Ismo Kallio.''Helsingin Sanomat''
Matlar, Mikko. ''Näyttelijä Ismo Kallio, 80, lopettaa viimein uransa: Nyt olen eläkeläinen ja sillä siisti''. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2016.

Filmography

References

External links

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1863 births 1940 deaths Finnish male stage actors Finnish male film actors Finnish male silent film actors People from Jyväskylä 19th-century Finnish male actors 20th-century Finnish male actors {{Finland-actor-stub