Kaarlo Vilhelm "Kille" Oksanen, born 11 January 1911 in Helsinki, died 14 October 1941 in

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, Soviet Union,OKSANEN, KAARLO VILHELM
War Casualties 1939–1945 Database. The National Archives Service of Finland. Retrieved 15 April 2016. was a Finnish footballer and film actor who was killed in World War II.

Football career

In 1927–1928 Oksanen played for

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, which was a member of the left-wing Finnish Workers' Sports Federation (TUL). At the time, Finnish football was split in two, TUL and the

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clubs played in their own series and the

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was composed of FA players only. Oksanen won the 1928 TUL Championship with Kullervo and in October he was selected to the

Finnish Workers' Sports Federation football team Finnish Workers' Sports Federation football team ( fi, TUL:n liittojoukkue) was an association football team representing the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation (TUL) in 1921–1950. At the time, the sport in Finland was divided as the leftist TUL ...

against the Soviet Union in Helsinki. Before the 1929 season Oksanen defected to the FA member club HPS Helsinki in order to play for the Finland national team. He debuted for Finland in October 1929 against Germany in Hamburg and became a regular member of the national team. Oksanen played 39 out of 43 Finland internationals between 1929 and 1937, but was not selected to the 1936 Berlin

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by the manager Ferdinand Fabra.

Club honours

* TUL Championship: 1928 * Finnish Championship: 1929, 1932, 1934, 1935

Film career

Oksanen started acting in the early 1930s. His first major film role was in the 1937 film ''Nuorena Nukkunut'' by Teuvo Tulio, based on a novel by the Nobel Prize winning author

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. In 1940 Oksanen got married with the actress

Rakel Linnanheimo Rachel ( he, רָחֵל, Modern: Raḥel, Tiberian: Rāḫēl, Rāḥēl), meaning " ewe", is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin, popularized by the biblical figure Rachel, the wife of Israelites, Israelite patriarch Jacob. Ashkenazi Jewish ...

(1909–2004).Kille Oksanen
National Filmography of Finland. Retrieved 15 April 2016.

Filmography

*''Nuorena nukkunut'' (1937) *'' The Song of the Scarlet Flower'' (1938) * ''

In the Fields of Dreams ''In the Fields of Dreams'' (Finnish: ''Unelma karjamajalla'') is a 1940 Finnish drama film directed by Teuvo Tulio and starring Sirkka Salonen, Olga Tainio and Kaarlo Oksanen. It is a remake of the 1933 Swedish film ''People of Hälsingland''. ...

'' (1940) *''Antreas ja syntinen Jolanda'' (1941)

Death

At the World War II Oksanen served as a runner. He was wounded by the Suna River in

and died at a field hospital in October 1941.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oksanen, Kaarlo 1911 births 1941 deaths Footballers from Helsinki Sportspeople from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Actors from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish men's footballers Finland men's international footballers Mestaruussarja players Finnish male film actors Finnish military personnel killed in World War II Men's association football defenders