Teuvo Puro

Teuvo Puro was born in Helsinki on 9 November 1884. An actor and for a long time a leading figure of the Finnish National Theatre, he co-directed in 1907, with Louis Sparre, the country's first fiction film, in which he also acted. A founding member of Suomi-Filmi in 1919 and then of Komedia-Filmi in 1926, he was one of the initiators of Finnish fiction cinema, as producer, director and actor all at once, and still acted in films in the late forties. He died in Helsinki on 24 July 1956.

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• CinemaNoidan kirotTeuvo Puro · 1927Cinema