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Vesa-Matti Loiri

1945 - 2022

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Vesa-Matti "Vesku" Loiri (4 January 1945 – 10 August 2022) was a Finnish actor, musician and comedian, best known for his role as Uuno Turhapuro, whom he portrayed in a total of 20 movies between the years 1973 and 2004. According to Yle News, ″Loiri was one of Finland's most beloved cultural figures over six decades, playing comic and tragic roles on screen and stage, alongside a musical career″. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vesa-Matti Loiri has received more than 170,806 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Vesa-Matti Loiri is the 3,755th most popular actor (up from 4,301st in 2019), the 215th most popular biography from Finland (up from 244th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Finnish Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Vesa-Matti Loiri has had the most page views in the with 153,984 views, followed by English (16,154), and Swedish (2,461). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Armenian (116.11%), Võro (42.59%), and Simple English (32.18%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Vesa-Matti Loiri ranks 3,755 out of 13,578. Before him are L. Scott Caldwell, Michael Gross, John Diehl, Ross Martin, Mae Busch, and Conrad Nagel. After him are Kevin Dunn, Linden Ashby, Moe Howard, Petra Mede, Jim Cummings, and Kōichi Yamadera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Vesa-Matti Loiri ranks 365. Before him are Marion Rung, Diahnne Abbott, Donny Hathaway, David Allen, Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, and Liu Yandong. After him are Matti Salminen, Agustín Balbuena, Natalya Seleznyova, Adele Goldberg, Kees van Ierssel, and Gennady Khazanov. Among people deceased in 2022, Vesa-Matti Loiri ranks 293. Before him are Sonny Barger, Mark Forest, Joseph Raz, Juan Diego, Sally Kellerman, and Fernando Chalana. After him are Robert Durst, Agostino Cacciavillan, Roger E. Mosley, Jean-Claude Mézières, Herbert W. Franke, and André Wilms.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Vesa-Matti Loiri ranks 215 out of 751. Before him are Emil Väre (1885), Pertti Karppinen (1953), Olli Rehn (1962), Elisabeth Rehn (1935), Eemil Nestor Setälä (1864), and Ellen Thesleff (1869). After him are Sofi Oksanen (1977), Matti Salminen (1945), Antti Hackzell (1881), Arvo Askola (1909), Vilho Lampi (1898), and August Ahlqvist (1826).

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Among ACTORS In Finland

Among actors born in Finland, Vesa-Matti Loiri ranks 6. Before him are George Gaynes (1917), Matti Pellonpää (1951), Kati Outinen (1961), Gustaf Molander (1888), and Tapio Rautavaara (1915). After him are Siri von Essen (1850), Peter Franzén (1971), Stina Ekblad (1954), Taina Elg (1930), Tauno Palo (1908), and Jasper Pääkkönen (1980).

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Television and Movie Roles

Uuno Epsanjassa
Uuno Turhapuro / Nasse-setä
Uuno Turhapuro is searching for a job and takes a correspondence course in tour guiding. Eventually he gets a job in a small travel agency and takes a group of Finnish tourists to Marbella, Spain. Unfortunately Uuno's father-in-law Tuura is in the group, too, with his wife and daughter, Uuno's wife Elisabet. Tuura tries to get a signature to an important paper from a minister who's having a holiday in the area. Meanwhile, Uuno just relaxes and enjoys the sun.
Sep 27o 19856.1 / 10
Road North
Leo Porola
A father who was absent for 30 years of his son's life returns and wants to set on a journey through Finland, so they can learn to know each other again.
Aug 24o 20125.9 / 10
Professori Uuno D.G. Turhapuro
Uuno Turhapuro
Uuno is unemployed and his friends try to arrange a job for him. With his imagination, though, and the help of Härski Hartikainen (Spede Pasanen), he somehow manages to avoid all work, until he becomes what he has always dreamt of being - a film star. Uuno's father-in-law has other plans for his occupation, though: since Uuno knows the Dandelion, he has potential for a professor of botany.
Aug 29o 19756.3 / 10