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Kauko Helovirta

Kauko Helovirta

Kauko Kustaa Helovirta (Hellström, 21 October 1924, Juupajoki – 13 September 1997, Helsinki, Finland) was a Finnish film actor.

Helovirta started his acting career in 1950 and made about 40 Finnish-language films between then and 1995.

Helovirta starred in the 1977 film alongside actor Antti Litja in Jäniksen vuosi, a film about a Finnish man from Helsinki who leaves to find a new life in the wilderness.

Towards the end of his career in the mid-1990s he appeared on television.