Arvo Kuusla

AKA: Arvo Armas Granlund, Arvo Armas Kuusla
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1907-04-19

Pyhäjärvi U.L., Finland

Biography

Arvo Armas Kuusla (until 1935 Granlund, 19 April 1907 Pyhäjärvi Vpl - June 24, 1960 Helsinki) was a Finnish actor and organizer of SF. Among others, Kuusla was known as the Seven Brothers Eerona. Kuusla was also the organizer of SF. Kuusla's wife was actress Irja Kuusla and her children were actress Matti Kuusla and photographer Mauno Kuusla. Arvo Kuusla created a long career in film as well as in theater. Kuusla performed in films such as Vaimoke, The Seven Brothers, the SF Parade, Loviisa - Niskavuoren's young mistress, Pekka Puupää on the summer pastures, Unknown Soldier, Pekka and Pätkä in bad trouble, Stuck and stays, ie Pekka and Pätkä's new adventures, Majuri highway, Hey, rillumarei !!! Among the greatest roles of Arvo Kuusla was, for example, the teacher Vellanus in the film The Girl of Snowy Forests (1960). He was married to Irja Kuusla in 1931-1960. Kuusla belonged to the revolutionary theater of the Red Mill from the 1940s until his death. From Wikipedia (fi), the free encyclopedia

Crew Roles

Kaksi vanhaa tukkijätkää
Location Manager
The Unknown Soldier
Location Manager
The Doll Merchant
Location Manager
Herra sotaministeri
Location Manager
Vääpeli Mynkhausen
Location Manager
Vihdoinkin hääyö…
Location Manager
Äidittömät
Location Manager
Eteenpäin – elämään
Second Assistant Camera
Rakas lurjus
Location Manager
Majuri maantieltä
Location Manager
Lumisten metsien tyttö
Location Manager
Suomisen perhe
Location Manager
Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina
Location Manager
Niin se on, poijaat!
Location Manager
Eteenpäin – elämään
Location Manager
Katariina ja Munkkiniemen kreivi
Location Manager
Helmikuun manifesti
Location Manager
Täysosuma
Assistant Location Manager
Takki ja liivit pois!
Location Manager
Hevoshuijari
Location Manager
Serenaadi sotatorvella eli sotamies Paavosen tuurihousut
Location Manager
SF-paraati
Assistant Location Manager
Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu
Assistant Location Manager
Lapseni on minun…
Location Manager
Tavaratalo Lapatossu & Vinski
Location Manager
Uuteen elämään
Location Manager
Kulkurin valssi
Location Manager
August järjestää kaiken
Location Manager
Suomisen taiteilijat
Location Manager
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {70}

Vellanus

1960-01-15 0

Lumisten metsien tyttö

Wintery forest and stubborn 16 year old girl dazzle the teacher from Helsinki. ...
Genre :Drama

Waiter (uncredited)

1941-11-09 3.667

Täysosuma

A young heiress settles into a holiday hotel in search of a suitable husband. There are enough groom candidates, some gentlemen, and some cheaters. All that is certain is that the misfortunes will not ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Boman's Friend (uncredited)

1955-08-26 0

Rakkaus kahleissa

A lock factory worker Pertti would like to marry his girlfriend Verna, but fears they don't have enough money. His brother Martti is a member of a youth gang that is planning a robbery with three othe ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1950-09-01 2.5

Hallin Janne

In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events. ...
Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1940-05-12 5

SF-paraati

A love story between a taxi driver and a travel guide in the form of a musical. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

(uncredited)

1936-04-12 5.2

Vaimoke

Esko makes a bet that he will marry the first young woman he encounters. This turns out to be Kirsti, who promptly turns down the proposals. But when she finds about the bet, she agrees to marry him i ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

(uncredited)

1945-11-24 3.5

En ole kreivitär

Helena Kara plays a dual role in this spectacularly portrayed adventure story where a real Countess and a false one cause misunderstandings. The film won Jussi Awards for filming and staging. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

(uncredited)

1943-03-20 4

Tuomari Martta

Martha's problem is balancing work and family. According to her husband Juho and father-in-law Kalle, the mother's place is at home with the child and not at work. Only her mother-in-law Ilona encoura ...
Genre :Drama

Kauppias Haaparannassa (uncredited)

1952-11-07 5.5

Salakuljettajan laulu

Customs officer Tapio goes undercover to reveal a smuggling ring, which operates within an entrainment troupe. While doing his detective work, he also gets to know the beautiful dancer Leila. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Sipo Ohramaa (uncredited)

1939-04-02 5

Jumalan tuomio

Aarne, the son of Laamanni Horn, who is studying law, falls in love with his father's office assistant Helena, but due to his parents' prejudices, he wants to keep his cross-class relationship a secre ...
Genre :Drama

1941-04-06 3.5

Kaivopuiston kaunis Regina

At the eve of Crimean war orphaned Regina lives with her grandmother in a small cabin near a lavish villa. As the summer approaches there is great anticipation of a big ball to be held. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

(uncredited)

1936-09-27 3.333

Kaikenlaisia vieraita

Young heiress' spendthrift nephew turns her manor into a boarding house for the summer. Suddenly the heiress returns... ...
Genre :Comedy

Laihanen

1942-12-27 0

Niin se on, poijaat!

Corporal Möttönen is an incomparable humorist whose easygoing banter brings a pleasant atmosphere to the unit. The smooth-talking man from Savo is assigned to the entertainment troops at the front. ...
Genre :Comedy

Kärppä

1942-04-05 3

Onni pyörii

Story about about a young man who was raised in an orphanage. Kauko goes to Helsinki to work as a store help. The living the big city is not so easy as Kauko expects and not so grand. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Music

(uncredited)

1943-02-28 0

Tyttö astuu elämään

The spoiled girl Elli Arto joins the military service for women longing for a life of excitement. Out there she grows-up to a responsible adult. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Mikko (uncredited)

1943-12-25 4

Suomisen taiteilijat

Pipsa catches the theater bug. The schoolgirl becomes obsessed with acting, which causes suffering for the whole family. Pipsa's brother Olli arranges performances for his sister and collects money fo ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Family

(uncredited)

1943-04-25 0

Nuoria ihmisiä

Young inventor Janne is lonely. He falls in love with beautiful girls, but his feelings are not reciprocated. Heartbreak and failure rob Janne of his will to live. ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1943-08-15 0

Hevoshuijari

Heavily indebted Commissioner Birger seeks to marry the wealthy Helena. The young lady rejects his advances and longs for her childhood friend Kuismaa. Birger's jealous mistress Verotshka complicates ...
Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1943-09-12 5

Valkoiset ruusut

Set in turn of the century Helsinki, author Arvo Helavalla's novel makes an indelible impression on adolescent Auli Ranta. She idolizes the author of a work that can never be forgotten. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

1944-02-13 0

Ballaadi

At the request of author Zacharias, Fredrik begins composing an opera, inspired by a summer walk in Backas, Espoo. He falls in love with Ebba, who sings like a nightingale about a young mermaid on the ...
Genre :Drama, Music

(uncredited)

1940-10-06 0

Runon kuningas ja muuttolintu

A poet finds a new muse in young woman. ...
Genre :Drama, History

(uncredited)

1941-01-19 5

Kulkurin valssi

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 t ...
Genre :Romance

(uncredited)

1941-12-21 5.5

Onnellinen ministeri

An artist bases a painting for a revealing lingerie ad on a photo of a girl he had found torn from a magazine, not knowing that the girl is in fact the daughter of the Finnish minister of finance. A s ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

(uncredited)

1942-08-09 7

Avioliittoyhtiö

Architect Paavo falls in love with and grows tired of the beautiful assistants in his office. On the advice of his middle-aged cashier Sandra, he decides to hire an ugly but hard-working woman. The re ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

(uncredited)

1945-01-20 6

Ristikon varjossa

Lauri and Anna are released from prison. They run into trouble when they cannot find work because of their past. Lauri obtains false identity papers, which enable him to get a job at a factory. A dang ...
Genre :Drama

1950-08-11 4

Tanssi yli hautojen

In the early 1800s, Finnish governor's daughter first detests but soon falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander I who has just taken Finland over from Sweden's rule. ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

(uncredited)

1953-10-12 5.5

Pekka Puupää kesälaitumilla

Pekka is given the task of renting a summer place, but real estate agent Aadolf Muikku tricks him into buying a villa. ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1954-10-08 5.8

Hilmanpäivät

The everyday life of the small village is mixed when a fire breaks out the night after the party. The cooperative manager and fire manager alerts the young judge Heiki to the extinguishing work, but d ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1954-08-13 6

Kaksi vanhaa tukkijätkää

Overworked industrialist Daniel escapes the hustle and bustle of high society to his old workplace at the Akkakoski log floating site. Working under a pseudonym, he befriends Moterni-Jaska, the oldest ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1955-08-12 5.5

The Doll Merchant

A wide-eyed doll salesman is mistaken for a bomb-wielding anarchist by the oppressive forces of the totalitarian state. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama

(uncredited)

1955-11-18 5

Kaunis Kaarina

Kaarina, an orphan girl raised by Taneli, the innkeeper, notices that her friendship with her childhood friend Antti is turning into romance. Henrik, the patron, also has his eye on Kaarina. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Pekkarinen (uncredited)

1955-09-02 3

Neiti talonmies

After her mother's death, Irja, an evacuee girl, finds herself in a poor financial situation. Working as a housekeeper for her former teacher on a starvation wage, her situation improves when she is h ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

(uncredited)

1955-03-04 4.636

Pekka ja Pätkä puistotäteinä

Justina urges Pete and Runt to get a job. As a result they meet an orphan boy named Otto while working as a park nannies. They offer to shelter the boy, but at the same time the father Antti, who has ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1955-10-21 4

Pastori Jussilainen

The year is 1895 in a small village in Savo, where new ideas such as women's rights and folk high schools are vehemently opposed by Pastor Jussilainen, both in his home and in the parish. His wife Eve ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1957-01-11 9

Pikku Ilona ja hänen karitsansa

Ilona, an orphan from the cruel Paksula family, ends up in Helsinki at a children's home for immigrants and from there becomes a foster daughter in the Orpana family, where she begins to sort out the ...
Genre :Drama, Family

(uncredited)

1957-09-20 7

1918

Pastor Samuel Bro has lost his faith in God. He is in conflict with the Church Council and is rejected from his priesthood. He moves away to a different life. ...
Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1958-09-05 0

Autuas eversti

Colonel Carolus von Haestman, presumed dead by his family, awakens from his deathbed and sets out to find his childhood sweetheart, Amelie. His children and grandchildren, in turn, set out to find the ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1957-10-04 0

Vihdoinkin hääyö…

Elina and Pentti are celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary and have invited Elina's cousin Ann-Mari and her husband Teemu to their village. During the evening, the group begins reminiscing about ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1958-12-19 5.3

Sven Tuuva the Hero

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in 1809, when Finland became a Grand Duchy of the Russian Czar. This period drama is set during that ea ...
Genre :War, Drama

(uncredited)

1957-03-01 5.273

Pekka ja Pätkä ketjukolarissa

Justiina Puupää drives her husband Pekka and his friend Pätkä to look for work. The two decide to make money the easy way and try to have an accident after first getting accident insurance. After tryi ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1959-02-27 5

Kovaa peliä Pohjolassa

An ex-finnish army officer Kari Kivi returns to Finland after 12 years of absence. He is quickly hired by a businessman named Östermalm to be his stand-in to escape the ring of spies threatening his ...
Genre :Comedy, Thriller

(uncredited)

1959-11-20 2

Kohtalo tekee siirron

Three brothers, all with their own problems that could be solved by money, try to come up with a plan to get they share of their uncle's fortune. Then a murder takes place and it is the job of a detec ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

(uncredited)

1959-12-25 5

Taas tapaamme Suomisen perheen

Olli Suominen has been appointed acting sheriff in the countryside, and the whole family has left for Kesäranta to spend the summer. The peaceful rural life is interrupted when small farmer Pullin's h ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

(uncredited)

1960-01-21 0

Oho, sanoi Eemeli

Eemeli, a lazy farm boy, is sent out into the world by his parents due to poor potato harvest forecasts. On his way to the logging camp, he meets Tommi, a man from Helsinki who sells razors and is hea ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1960-02-24 4

Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut

The unlucky layabout Isarkar Keturi brings a criminal gang to heel with the help of his assistant Mikael. He frees Irma, the daughter of mining magnate Tömstet, from captivity and a forced marriage to ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1945-10-21 4

Nokea ja kultaa

Jalmari, who does odd jobs at the harbor, rescues little Risto from being beaten up by older boys. The child is afraid of his violent foster parents and runs away to kind-hearted Jalmari. His foster m ...
Genre :Drama

(voice) (uncredited)

1955-05-27 7

Kukonlaulusta kukonlauluun

A farm boy leaves his sweetheart Eliina and moves to the city for a relationship with Laila, a summer guest at the farm. ...
Genre :Drama

Rymyläinen

1954-12-03 4

Majuri maantieltä

Masa, a drifter, meets Pikku-Aleksi, whose wife Jenny has just left him penniless on the side of the road. In their search for food, the friends end up at an army barracks, where Masa is mistaken for ...
Genre :Comedy

1955-04-29 1.333

Rakas lurjus

It is a time of extreme housing shortage in Helsinki. People with room in their flats are required either to find subtenants or to lodge anyone sent by the housing commission. Abel and Jussi Siimes, t ...
Genre :Comedy

(uncredited)

1960-11-18 4

Myöhästynyt hääyö

Otto and Kaija have celebrated their surprise wedding, but after a coctail party nothing between them is the same as Otto does not remember what actually happened, and the mess is ready when Otto's Am ...
Genre :Comedy

Gas Station Attendant / Party Guest (uncredited)

1936-12-20 6.6

Mieheke

Irmeli wants a certain job as a secretary but finds out that she would have to be married in order to get the vacancy. She lies that she has recently married and then gets a stranger from a nearby res ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

mies Marseillesta nro. 2

1937-03-28 0

Mies Marseillesta

Engineering student Petteri and retired captain Jere Renkonen arrive in Terijoki as guests of architect Matti Marras at the villa he has rented. In the midst of everything, the owner of the villa, Rus ...
Genre :Comedy

Eero

1939-10-01 6

Seitsemän veljestä

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

Yrjö Koskinen

1946-12-25 5.222

Loviisa – Niskavuoren nuori emäntä

Strong women take care of the property while the men focus on chasing women. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Film Director

1941-03-02 0

Suomisen perhe

The film takes place in the summer and spring of 1940. Isä, the father, gets involved in the stock market and threatens the livelihood of the family. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Family

Emppu

1954-02-19 7

Hei, rillumarei!

Traveler Severi travels to Helsinki to enjoy some culture, where he meets Sinikka and Simo, who run a buying and selling business. At a customs auction, he buys a painting that businessman Kehveli and ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Tominaga (uncredited)

1955-12-02 4.778

Pekka ja Pätkä pahassa pulassa

Justiina gives lessons to friends who are avoiding work and sends them to work. Pekka and Pätkä end up in a woodworking factory, where their job is to nail together the legs of a Christmas tree. The m ...
Genre :Comedy

1940-11-10 3

Tavaratalo Lapatossu & Vinski

Vinski inherits a general store in Ihantala from his aunt, which he starts running with his friend Lapatossu. The friends face fierce competition from the greedy merchant Juhos. The resourceful Lapato ...
Genre :Comedy

1955-03-18 0

Veteraanin voitto

Timo learns about his grandfather Santeri's background in the workers' sports movement. Inspired by this, he begins to encourage his alcoholic father to practice his own sport, javelin throwing. ...
Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1958-04-25 5.444

Pekka ja Pätkä Suezilla

Pekka Puupää and Pätkä involuntarily end up in Suez as peacekeepers. After saving the Caliph's daughter Suleiman from kidnappers on two occasions, the Caliph magically reunites the friends with Justii ...
Genre :Comedy

Leksa

1955-05-06 5.143

Kiinni on ja pysyy

Pekka and Pätkä work as inventors. Pätkä accidentally takes a photograph of bank robbers, who begin to track down the photographer. Soma Koivu, the former secretary of the property manager Kiivas, and ...
Genre :Comedy

Jaakko Mettinen

1938-10-30 4

Rykmentin murheenkryyni

The lazy but resourceful farmhand Hemminki and the bookworm Lauri initially struggle to cope in the army, but the company commander's cook Mimmi and the captain's daughter Elli help them adapt to disc ...
Genre :Comedy

Eikka

1944-08-13 5

Nainen on valttia

A famous operette star Kirsti Kalpa escapes her busy and selfish fiance and hides as maid to house of 3 bachelors ( professor, composer and butler) , who basically hate women. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Nikolai II

1939-02-19 5

Helmikuun manifesti

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 ...
Genre :Drama, History

(uncredited)

1957-08-09 0

Herra sotaministeri

Kalle, a shy and absent-minded civil servant at the comparison agency, unwittingly becomes Minister of War. He receives help in his new role from Maria, the daughter of Finance Minister Karpio. Proble ...
Genre :Comedy

Homicide Detective (uncredited)

1960-09-09 7.054

Inspector Palmu's Error

A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Infantryman

1955-12-23 7.333

The Unknown Soldier

It is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake ...
Genre :Drama, War

Hilarius Keihäs

1939-12-26 1

Serenaadi sotatorvella eli sotamies Paavosen tuurihousut

Soldiers conducting combat exercises in the area attract women more than civilians, as Raakki-Kustaa and cantor Sylvester learn to their cost. Private Malakias charms the cowgirl Sandra with his smoot ...
Genre :Comedy

Andersson

1939-01-29 0

Eteenpäin – elämään

Senator Fredrik, who advocates a policy of appeasement, expels his nephew Robert, an activist and lover of Justiina, from his home. Decades later, the lovers meet again when Robert returns to claim hi ...
Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1958-05-23 0

Murheenkryynin poika

Heikki Aaltonen enlists in military service, leaving behind his father Hemminki, mother Mimmi, and beloved Helvi on the family farm. At the same time, another Heikki Aaltonen enlists, who is completel ...
Genre :Comedy