Martti Viljami Katajisto (6 December 1926 – 25 January 2000) was a Finnish actor. He is best remembered as a young and angry man Nokia in a film ''

Ihmiset suviyössä ''Ihmiset suviyössä'' is a novel by Finnish author Frans Eemil Sillanpää. It was released in 1934. In 1948, Valentin Vaala directed a film based on the book. The fifth edition of the novel was published that year. ''Ihmiset suviyössä'' ha ...

'' (1948). For this role, he received a

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as the best actor in a leading role.

Theatrical career

At the beginning of his career, Katajisto became known as a favorite of teenage girls', but later he also appeared in a number of major theatre classics. Katajisto was employed by the

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from 1954 until his retirement. During his theatrical career, he was seen in such classics as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''.

In films

Martti Katajisto's breakthrough in cinema came in 1948 with a

Valentin Vaala Valentin Vaala (born Valentin Yakovich Ivanoff, Russian: Валентин Якович Иванов; 13 October 1909 in Helsinki – 21 November 1976 in Helsinki) was a Finnish film director, screenwriter and film editor. His career spanned sever ...

film ''Ihmiset suviyössä''. His character Nokia has been interpreted as the first homosexual male character in Finnish film history. In 1949, he was seen as Prince Florestan in ''Prinsessa Ruusunen'', a Finnish adaptation of ''

Sleeping Beauty ''Sleeping Beauty'' (french: La belle au bois dormant, or ''The Beauty in the Sleeping Forest''; german: Dornröschen, or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess cu ...

''. With this role, Katajisto started to think that he would always be typecast in the pretty boy roles. Katajisto's film career dried up in the 1960s, at the beginning of the actors' strike. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was only seen in two new movies. Towards the end of the century, his film career became a little more active. He received critical acclaim in 1993 for his role as a father with dementia in a

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film ''Isä meidän''. His final film role came in 1999 in a

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film '' Kulkuri ja joutsen''. He made an ironic portrayal of the man he had worked for decades ago, a Finnish movie mogul T. J. Särkkä.

Filmography

* ''Nuoruus sumussa'' (1946) * ''Toukokuun taika'' (1948) * ''Laulava sydän'' (1948) * ''Laitakaupungin laulu'' (1948) * ''Ihmiset suviyössä'' (1948) * ''Hormoonit valloillaan'' (1948) * ''Haaviston Leeni'' (1948) * ''Vain kaksi tuntia'' (1949) * ''Prinsessa Ruusunen'' (1949) * ''Katupeilin takana'' (1949) * ''Kanavan laidalla'' (1949) * ''Orpopojan valssi'' (1950) * ''Maija löytää sävelen'' (1950) * ''Katarina kaunis leski'' (1950) * ''Yhden yön hinta'' (1952) * ''Niskavuoren Heta'' (1952) * '' Jälkeen syntiinlankeemuksen'' (1953) * ''Mä oksalla ylimmällä'' (1954) * ''Nukkekauppias ja kaunis Lilith'' (1955) * ''Niskavuori taistelee'' (1957) * ''Sven Tuuva'' (1958) * ''Yks' tavallinen Virtanen'' (1959) * ''Nina ja Erik'' (1960) * ''Hänen olivat linnut'' (1976) * ''Suuri illusioni'' (1985) * ''Isä meidän'' (1993) * ''

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'' (1995) * ''Kulkuri ja joutsen'' (1999)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Katajisto, Martti 20th-century Finnish male actors Finnish male film actors 1926 births 2000 deaths Finnish male stage actors