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Esko Nikkari (23 November 1938 Lapua, Finland – 17 December 2006 in Seinäjoki, Finland) was a prolific Finnish actor who made more than 70 appearances on film and television. He debuted in 1974 in the movie Karvat.
Nikkari was a workhorse of the Kaurismäki brothers, with whom he first worked on Rikos ja rangaistus in 1983. His last role with Aki Kaurismäki was in Man without a Past in 2002. He starred in the 1994 film Aapo opposite actors such as Taisto Reimaluoto, Ulla Koivuranta and Kai Lehtinen. More recently, he has appeared in a number of Timo Koivusalo films such as Kaksipäisen kotkan varjossa (2005), which is the last full-length movie he appeared in.
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Esko Nikkari Biography / Wiki
| Name | Esko Nikkari |
| Also Know | Esko Vilhelm Nikkari |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Lapua, Finland |
| Date of Birth | 1938-11-23 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 68 |
| Deathday | 2006-12-17 |
Esko Nikkari Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Kahdeksan peiliä | Isa | 1982-01-01 | A 1982 short film from Finland…. |
| Nonstop | Bookseller | 1987-01-01 | A revolver changes hands seven times, each time serving a different purpose shot in a film style which tests the traditional story-telling form of fil… |
| The Final Arrangement | Varjola | 1987-02-13 | Two men, Nieminen and Varjola, commit a mail van robbery. Varjola betrays his friend: shoots him and takes the loot. Nieminen is arrested, but he refu… |
| Pieni pyhiinvaellus | Pappi | 2000-03-17 | In a religious rural community in the 1950s, Ritva, a young woman has kept her pregnancy a secret. Helped by her sister, she gives birth but soon aban… |
| The Match Factory Girl | Stepfather | 1990-01-12 | Iris has a soul-deadening job as a quality-control worker watching boxes of matches go by on an assembly line all day. At night, she eats silently wit… |
| Crime and Punishment | Pennanen | 1983-12-02 | An adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the … |
| Plainlands | Paavo | 1988-02-26 | Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80’s comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical ment… |
| A Summer by the River | Hannes | 1998-02-09 | Topi’s mother, who is also Tenho’s wife dies and Tenho and Topi have to move out from the town because they don’t have enough money to pay their rent…. |
| Shadows in Paradise | Nikander’s Co-Worker | 1986-10-17 | An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more…. |
| The Worthless | Harström | 1982-10-15 | A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other…. |
| Lakeuden kutsu | Paavo Hakala | 2000-01-14 | … |
| Pekko ja unissakävelijä | Reino Kuovi, Poliisi | 1997-09-26 | Pipsa has fallen prey to a shady scientist Kalevi. Pekko tries to save her…. |
| Pekko Aikamiespojan poikamiesaika | Reino,Poliisi | 1993-09-17 | Pekko has a crush on Pipsa, a beautiful archeologist…. |
| Pekko ja massahurmaaja | Reino,Poliisi | 1995-09-01 | … |
| Pekko ja muukalainen | Reino ,Poliisi | 1996-09-06 | … |
| Hamlet Goes Business | Polonius | 1987-08-21 | A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’…. |
| The Rose of the Rascal | Väiski | 2001-01-01 | The life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer…. |
| The Last Wedding | Jalmari Pesonen / Grim Reaper (voice) | 1995-02-17 | Pekka (Martti Suosalo) arrives back to his home village of Jerusalem to celebrate the last wedding of the village. His own marriage seems to have reac… |
| Pekko ja poika | Reino,Poliisi | 1994-10-28 | … |
| Aapo | maanviljelysneuvos | 1994-07-29 | Finland 1917. Aapo is a single peasantry who tries to live a good life before the finnish civil war begins…. |
| Gunpoint | Kalevi | 1981-10-30 | Drama set in Stockholm and Helsinki and a village whose existence is threatened by a power plant. A group of young people return to their roots and ar… |
| Goodbye, Mr. President | 1987-01-16 | Asko Mertanen is a waiter who is very interested in shooting. He gets fed up how the things are run in Finland, so he thinks that the best way to chan… | |
| Shadow of the Eagle | Aaro’s father | 2005-09-08 | The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II’s oppressive dictat… |
| Marked | 1984-09-15 | Irma Auer (Satu Silvo) is a former call-girl, trying to distance herself from the past. In a séance she is told to be ‘marked for death’, and is afte… | |
| Kauhea murhamies Lalli | Mustakulma Kaukovalta | 1981-05-08 | TV play about the legend of Lalli…. |
| Vaiennut kylä | Jarva, police officer | 1997-01-31 | … |
| Play It All | Louhela | 1994-04-15 | A film group is making movie in the little town. Writer Pentti Töysä interrupts film group’s press conference and claims that script is written by h… |
| Koomikko | Potilas | 1983-03-11 | Aspiring young comedian Hepi rides a moped and sleeps in cars left at a garage for repair. He joins a group of older but equally bad comedians trying … |
| Goodbye Trainmen | Trainman Kauno Saario | 1992-09-04 | Small-town boys Vähy and Hapa are best friends who swear an eternal blood oath. As they grow up, however, their paths drift apart and they both find … |
| The Man Without a Past | Bank Robber | 2002-03-01 | A man arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot ge… |
| Juha | Police Chief | 1999-02-26 | A farmer’s wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel…. |
| Cha Cha Cha | Policeman | 1989-01-20 | A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä (Matti Pellonpää), a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to i… |
| Macbeth | Einari | 1987-01-16 | A Finnish film version of Macbeth. Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotl… |
| Love & Crime | Kassu Vartio | 1999-02-05 | … |
| The Wrestler | Hinausautokuski | 1985-09-26 | An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own…. |
| A Charming Mass Suicide | Sakari Piippo | 2000-03-03 | Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a “Let’s do it together”-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to … |
| Hei kliffaa hei! | Poliisi | 1985-02-08 | … |
| Ariel | Car Dealer | 1988-10-21 | Taisto Kasurinen is a Finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he starts t… |
| Niskavuori | Nikulan isäntä | 1984-12-21 | Ilona, a young elementary school teacher, arrives in Hämäläiskylä . He and Aarne, the host of Niskavuori, who is frustrated with his marriage, fal… |
| The Clan – Tale of the Frogs | Poliisietsivä | 1984-11-30 | Young Alex Sammako has seen his brothers defy the law in a series of deeds that first land them in jail, and then, after they escape and return to the… |
| The Winter War | Yrjö ‘Ylli’ Alanen | 1989-11-30 | Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the pr… |
| Drifting Clouds | Restaurant Manager | 1996-01-26 | Tram driver Lauri loses his job. Shortly later, the restaurant where his wife Ilona works as a headwaitress is closed. Too proud, to receive money fro… |
| Sergeant Körmy and the South Pacific | Pohjalainen perheenpää | 1992-10-09 | The Minister of Defence asks sergeant Körmy to take part in operation, where the United States and Russia are to hand over their nuclear weapons laun… |
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