Vilho Siivola was a Finnish actor

Actor

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, film director

Film director

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, television director

Television director

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 and a member of the Council of Theatre.

His career included theatre

Theatre

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, where he was both an actor and a director, motion pictures

Film

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 and television

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. Notably, in 1953 he was one of the founders of 'Kivi-juhlat’ (a theatre festival based in the childhood town of Aleksis Kivi

Aleksis Kivi

Aleksis Kivi , born Alexis Stenvall, was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seven Brothers...

) and was its first director. In addition he authored two books, Myllykylästä Maailmalle (1975) and Maailmassa Maailmaa (1983).