?ke Lindman

?ke Lindman was a very skilled football player and played in the Finnish national team, he was offered a contract by the English Premier League team Swindon in the 60s but he turned it down and chose to become an actor.?ke Lindman had a promising career as a football player before he chose to quit and focus on acting. He made his film debut in 1949 in Hornankoski (1949), directed by a legendary Finnish film maker Teuvo Tulio. Several years later, Lindman had another role in a Tulio film, now in Olet mennyt minun vereeni (1956).With the looks of a rough, tough guy, Lindman was eventually type casted as villain for most of the films he made during his career. Despite this, his career was an immediate success, culminating on his Jussi Award winning role in The Unknown Soldier (1955), the highest grossing Finnish movie of all time. A few years later Lindman had his first role of a fragile man in _1918 (1957)', directed by T.J. S?rkk?, the producer of most of Lindman's films of the 1950'... [Details Intro]