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Tauno Palo

1908 - 1982

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Tauno Valdemar Palo (born Tauno Brännäs; 25 October 1908 – 24 May 1982) was a Finnish actor and singer in what some consider the golden age of Finnish cinema. In Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland Peter von Bagh names Palo as the most renowned, the best-loved, and quite indisputably the greatest and the best actor of Finnish cinema. His skill to combine lightweight and youthful charm with heavyweight acting was seen most clearly in the theatre.His most famous roles were perhaps in Kulkurin valssi ("The Vagabond's Waltz"), and Vaimoke ("Surrogate Wife"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tauno Palo has received more than 42,777 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Tauno Palo is the 4,655th most popular actor (up from 4,691st in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from Finland (down from 269th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Finnish Actor.

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  • 43k

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  • 45.98

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Tauno Palo ranks 4,655 out of 9,996Before her are Seth Green, Juliane Köhler, Arthur Freed, Karin Baal, Colin Clive, and Paula Prentiss. After her are Ken Foree, Marin Hinkle, Paprika Steen, John P. Ryan, Christine Estabrook, and Nils Asther.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Tauno Palo ranks 278Before her are Gustavo Marzi, William McMahon, Sonja Graf, Franz Cisar, Nicolás Lindley López, and Alejandro Villanueva. After her are Hu Die, Antonio Pesenti, Miguel Otero Silva, Devika Rani, Gioacchino Guaragna, and Aleksei Arbuzov. Among people deceased in 1982, Tauno Palo ranks 199Before her are Palden Thondup Namgyal, Dominique Dunne, Eino Penttilä, Leonid Spirin, Ivan Mariz, and Eleanor Powell. After her are Ricardo Pérez Godoy, Pedro Solé, Hércules de Miranda, Raghunath Murmu, Archibald MacLeish, and Vasily Rudenkov.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Tauno Palo ranks 271 out of 642Before her are Kustaa Pihlajamäki (1902), Reino Kuuskoski (1907), August Ahlqvist (1826), Antti Tulenheimo (1879), Toivo Loukola (1902), and Ville Pörhölä (1897). After her are Katri Helena (1945), Arvo Ylppö (1887), Eero Berg (1898), Eero Lehtonen (1898), Heikki Hasu (1926), and Rainer von Fieandt (1890).

Among ACTORS In Finland

Among actors born in Finland, Tauno Palo ranks 10Before her are Peter Franzén (1971), Stina Ekblad (1954), Matti Pellonpää (1951), Taina Elg (1930), Vesa-Matti Loiri (1945), and Kati Outinen (1961). After her are Jasper Pääkkönen (1980), Pihla Viitala (1982), Krista Kosonen (1983), Laura Birn (1981), Joonas Suotamo (1986), and Mikko Leppilampi (1978).

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