Kauko Kustaa Helovirta (Hellström, 21 October 1924,

Juupajoki Juupajoki is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of (), which makes it the smallest municipality in Pirkanmaa in terms of population. It covers an area of of which is water. The p ...

– 13 September 1997,

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city ...

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

) was a

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

film

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

. 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 Antti Vilho Olavi Litja (21 February 1938 – 13 July 2022) was a Finnish actor. Litja made over 60 film and television appearances since 1959. A prominent figure in Finnish film in the 1970s and 1980s, since the mid-1990s he mostly appeared o ...

in ''

Jäniksen vuosi ''The Year of the Hare'' ( fi, Jäniksen vuosi) is a 1977 Finnish drama film directed by Risto Jarva, starring Antti Litja as a man who leaves his office job in Helsinki to live in the wilderness with a hare. The film is based on the 1975 book '' ...

'' a film about a Finnish man from

who leaves to find a new life in the wilderness. Towards the end of his career in the mid 1990s he appeared on

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

Selected filmography

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* 1924 births 1997 deaths People from Juupajoki Finnish male film actors Finnish male television actors Finnish male voice actors 20th-century Finnish male actors Deaths from cancer in Finland {{Finland-actor-stub