Tenho Saurén (1 September 1926, Viiala, now a part of

Akaa Akaa () is a town and a municipality in Pirkanmaa, Finland. It was created on 1 January 2007, when the town of Toijala and the town of Viiala were united into a single municipality. The municipality of Kylmäkoski was consolidated with Akaa o ...

- 21 March 2001

Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

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) was a Finnish

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and

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. He appeared on Finnish television several times in the 1970s and early 1980s always in

comedy Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Origins Comedy originated in ancient Greec ...

roles. He starred as the police officer Reinikainen in the TV series of the same name, a spin-off of '' Tankki täyteen''. He retired from acting in 1983 and compiled a number of comic

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s and joke books in the 1980s. He died in 2001. He was married to Kaarina Kallionpää until his death.

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* 1926 births 2001 deaths People from Akaa Finnish male actors Finnish male comedians People from Viiala 20th-century Finnish comedians {{Finland-comedian-stub