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 | | SPEDE 1930-2001 R.I.P. Pertti "Spede" Pasanen, the grand old man of Finnish comedy, passed away on Friday 8 September, 2001. |
 | | Most people outside Finland don't know Spede but he became a national institution with a career spanning for over forty years: as a comedian, writer, actor, film director and producer, TV game show host and even an inventor. |
 | | pHinnWeb's own favourites are Spede's innovative 1960s film comedies, though his most well-known character remains Uuno Turhapuro ("Numbskull Emptybrook"), the ragged, lazy-to-the-bone star of a series of feature films, as immortalised by the actor Vesa-Matti Loiri (image on the right). |
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