Risto Orko
Risto Eliel William Orko (originally Nylund) (15 September 1899, Rauma – 29 September 2001, Helsinki) was a Finnish film producer and director.
With a career of over 60 years at the film studio Suomi-Filmi, Orko rose to be head of production and chief director in the 1930s. He became its CEO in 1945. In the 1940s, 50s and 60s, Suomi-Filmi produced hundreds of films and numerous shorts.
In the years 1933-43, Orko directed many films, including two (Aktivistit and Jääkärin Morsian), which were banned for being "overly patriotic". He also had a joint cooperation with the German film industry during World War II. Orko also directed a Finnish-Soviet co-production, released into the American market with subtitles, entitled The Day the Earth Froze in 1959.
His death at age 102 was received with great sadness in his native Finland and he was thereafter known as the "last Finnish Film Tycoon".
Selected filmography
External links
Orko, Risto Filmography
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1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1995, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1986, role: actor
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1980, role: director
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1980, role: writer
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1977, role: producer
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1976, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1970, role: producer
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1969, role: producer
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1968, role: producer
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1967, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1966, role: producer
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1966, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
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1965, role: producer
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1965, role: producer
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1965, role: producer
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1964, role: producer
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1963, role: producer
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1963, role: producer
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1962, role: producer
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1961, role: producer
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1961, role: producer
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1960, role: writer
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1960, role: director
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1960, role: director
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1960, role: producer
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1959, role: producer
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1958, role: producer
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1958, role: producer
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1957, role: producer
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1957, role: producer
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1956, role: producer
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1956, role: producer
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1956, role: producer
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1956, role: producer
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1955, role: producer
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1955, role: producer
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1954, role: producer
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1954, role: producer
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1954, role: producer
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1954, role: producer
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1954, role: producer
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1953, role: producer
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1953, role: producer
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1953, role: producer
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1953, role: producer
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1952, role: producer
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1952, role: producer
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1952, role: producer
Racetrack
Rodgers
You spend all your life waitin' for the main event
Twenty four hours a day and all of it spent.
On the racetrack living on the edge
On the racetrack living on the edge.
Making breaking records is all that you need
You can't live without it 'cause you're hooked on the speed.
On the racetrack living on the edge
On the racetrack living on the edge.
It's everything to you, it's all that you know
The start of the race, you hear the engines roar.
On the racetrack living on the edge
On the racetrack living on the edge, yeah.
It's a racetrack living on the edge
It's a racetrack living on the edge.
Racetrack living on the edge
Racetrack living on the edge.
......... you've been waiting for
You see ........................
............................
Mmm, ..............., yeah
Come on baby
Come on baby, do it for me now, hu-hu
I need you, feel your engine
......, come on baby
Come on baby, baby, do it, do it
