Urho Westman

Acting
1912-01-22
Helsinki, Finland

Known For & Full Filmography31 Titles

#1Tytön huivi

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Romance

Young Affu sets off to travel around the summer countryside, hoping to find himself a bride. He carries with him an engagement scarf given to him by his mother, which he promises to the farmer's daughter Milda, until he meets the mysterious gypsy girl Marketa.

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#2Salainen ase

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Miška, 1. agentti

5.3 / 10
CrimeThriller

Tanja Bulkova arrives in Finland under the name Toini Salonen and, with the help of spy chief Rosenberg, becomes the secretary of engineer Rautavuori and discovers the drawings of a secret invention.

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#3Kuriton sukupolvi

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

7.5 / 10
Comedy

Immersed in his research work, professor Reinhold Varavaara realizes that he has neglected his children's upbringing. He falls in love with his son Pelle's girlfriend Marja and becomes a laughing stock in the eyes of his family. The offended father sets out to discipline his ill-behaved children.

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#4Totinen torvensoittaja

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
Comedy

After many mishaps, City Engineer Volmari arrives at the masquerade ball wearing a suit of knight's armor from the museum. He dances with his blind date crush Raili until Bertha, the black singer from the circus, pulls him away and a new whirlwind of misunderstandings begins.

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#5Kulkurin valssi

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

5.3 / 10
Romance

St.Petersburg, 1830. An arrogant Finnish baron is playing cards with a Russian officer. Needless to say, the Finn wins and the Russian gets extremely annoyed. The situation is not helped by the fact that the baron has been seeing a girl that the Russian officer has also set his eyes on. They decide to have a duel and after the Finn wins fair and square, he has to escape because the untrustworthy Russians are after him.

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#6Oi, kallis Suomenmaa

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
Drama

Eino, a Karelian soldier wounded in the Winter War, cannot settle into his new home in Häme. He becomes embittered by the poor treatment of evacuees and loses his will to live. Annikki, a hard-working Karelian teacher, helps Eino regain his faith in the future.

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#7Lapatossu

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
Comedy

Lazy but resourceful storyteller Lapatossu solves problems at the railway construction site with his seemingly simple friend Vinski.

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#8Synnitön lankeemus

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
ComedyThriller

Timo plays a jealous husband who shoots his wife's lover on stage. The theater director urges the shy young man to gain experience with women and guns before the premiere. Both become familiar when Timo gets caught up in the schemes of his fellow actress Aili and a Russian spy ring.

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#9Oi, aika vanha, kultainen…!

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
Drama

Joonas, a perpetual student living in a small town and working odd jobs, wants to spend May Day in Helsinki with his classmates from 30 years ago. His old friends are successful, but they have grown apart and are unhappy. Joonas helps them rediscover friendship and the joy of living.

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#10Pontevat pommaripojat

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.5 / 10
ComedyCrime

Poke and Pena, two private investigators in debt, see an advertisement in the newspaper about Dr. Peltonen's disappearance and the promised reward for finding him. The boys retreat to investigate the case in a house they have rented in the countryside, which happens to be next door to the criminal gang that kidnapped the doctor. The gang's boss, 'Synkkä' (Gloomy), and his sister, 'Kaunotar' (Beauty), try to distract the boys by hiring them to guard their villa.

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#11Orpopojan valssi

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
DramaHistory

A biographical film about Finnish singer J. Alfred Tanner and his path through a failed career as a construction master to become a highly successful couplet singer - the "king of couplets".

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#12Varsovan laulu

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

7.8 / 10
DramaCrime

A cynical tale of two liquor smugglers, who struggle with life, love and lust. A seedy love triangle is unavoidable.

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#13Nummisuutarit

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
ComedyHistory

In the comedy set in Etelä-Hämee in the middle of the 19th century, Esko, the son of a cobbler, goes with the speaker Mikko Vilkastu to find a bride for himself from Karri's adopted daughter, Crete. However, not everything goes according to plan.

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#14Radio tekee murron

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Tuura

6.8 / 10
ComedyThrillerCrime

Eager young radio reporter Teräsvuori stages a one-man burglary into the Helsinki Art Museum, recorded on tape for a later broadcast by his friend Laakso. Things go awry when a gang of real criminals overhear their plans and book their heist to coincide. Teräsvuori gets caught but escapes from police custody to start his private investigations together with female radio colleague Eila.

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#15SF-paraati

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

5.2 / 10
ComedyMusicRomance

A love story between a taxi driver and a travel guide in the form of a musical.

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#16Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
RomanceHistory

Wager is Count Mauritz Armborg, the young master of the estate. Linnanheimo plays Katariina (Catherine) the nanny to Mauritz's nieces and nephews. The two fall in love and decide to escape to Italy via Denmark where they have planned to get married. There are always complications because Mauritz's grandmother doesn't want him to marry below him - she has decided that Mauritz is to marry the Swedish beauty, Ingeborg Liliecrona.

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#17Meidän poikamme merellä

Movie - 1933, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

3.8 / 10
DramaComedy

After naval sergeant Pekka Kuusisto runs into his old crush, nurse Leila, she stays on his mind as he embarks on a submarine combat exercise.

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#18Yhden yön hinta

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
DramaCrime

The streets of Helsinki, Finland, at night. Violence mixed with incidents and everyday life. Reported by police officers on the graveyard shift.

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#19Helmikuun manifesti

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
DramaHistory

February Manifesto was Yrjö Norta's and Toivo Särkkä's Finnish movie from 1939. It is a Finnish historical drama about developing independency based on book of the writer Mika Waltari. Movie Starring Tauno Palo and Regina Linnanheimo. For it's anti-soviet thematics it was banned in Finland from 1944 to 1987.

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#20Haaviston Leeni

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Pentti

7.0 / 10
Drama

Leeni, a country girl, leaves to seek her fortune in Helsinki, but encounters numerous difficulties.

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#21Professori Masa

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
ComedyRomance

A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn upside down.

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#22Seitsemän veljestä

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Aapeli (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
DramaHistory

Based on a novel by Aleksis Kivi. Follows the story of seven brothers of Jukola in 19th century Finland.

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#23Aktivistit

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Activist

5.7 / 10
DramaHistory

In 1916, Finland is still a part of Russian Empire. Eugen Schauman murders the governor of Finland, and his fellow activists take on smaller tasks in the fight for freedom.

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#24Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
DramaHistory

A poet finds a new muse in young woman.

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#25Vodkaa, komisario Palmu

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

5.6 / 10
ComedyCrime

A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of retirement for this case. However, some have their doubts about the loyalities of Palmu, seeing that he was spotted in a diplomatic soiree in Moscow just a few weeks before the murder.

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#26Pohjalaisia

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

10.0 / 10
DramaHistory

In 1850s Southern Ostrobothnia, the new county police chief angers the peasants with his arrogance, dishonesty and violent methods. Jussi, a young farmer, dares to stand up to the police chief. His courage makes on impression on the maidservant Liisa.

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#27Se alkoi sateessa

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

9.0 / 10
ComedyCrime

Vuokko takes shelter from a thunderstorm in a fishing hut and meets a mysterious man whom she suspects is the smuggler Rompan Eetu. Instead of reporting him, Vuokko decides to follow him to Helsinki to the smugglers' hideout on the condition that he agrees to turn himself and his comrades in to the police.

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#28Tulitikkuja lainaamassa

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
Comedy

Set in North Karelia, when Antti Ihalainen's house runs out of matches, he goes to borrow some from a neighbor. On the road, he meets a rich widower, Jussi Vatanen, who asks Ihalai to be his speaker and friend on an engagement trip to the city of Jo. The hosts from Lieper are snorting drunkenly from behind their shoulders.

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#29Halveksittu

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
Drama

Merchant Iivari encounters significant challenges in his entrepreneurial career when Merthen, a commercial counselor, attempts to prevent his success. Merthen's daughter Verna falls in love with the honest Iivari, who is not acceptable as a son-in-law to the Merthen family.

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#30Ja alla oli tulinen järvi

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

5.4 / 10
Drama

Set in Southern Finland between 1912 and 1936. Due to his father's drunkenness, high school student Jussi Raala has lost his inheritance, the manor house and the sawmill, to the gunman Lumia. Bitter and vengeful, Jussi decides to get the property back.

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#31Syyllisiäkö?

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
Drama

Lecturer Aarre is dating Emmi, a saleswoman at a fabric store. The small-town social circles do not approve of relationships that cross class boundaries, and neither do Emmi's mother and her brother Erkki, who works at the factory.

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