Ilmari Saarelainen (born 12 September 1944 in

Uusikaupunki Uusikaupunki (; sv, Nystad, ) is a list of towns in Finland, town and municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is located in the Southwest Finland regions of Finland, region, northwest of Turku and south of Pori. The municipality ...

) is a Finnish

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), l ...

. His career has been mainly based on

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication Media (communication), medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of Transmission (telecommunications), television tra ...

. Saarelainen began acting in 1970 appearing in a number of TV series. His career has mainly been based on Finnish

although in the early to mid-1980s he starred in a number of Finnish films most famously as the bumbling lead character in the 1983

James Bond The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional Secret Intelligence Service, British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 19 ...

spoof ''

Agent 000 and the Deadly Curves ''Agentti 000 ja kuolema kurvit'' (English title ''Agent 000 and the Deadly Curves'') is a 1983 Finnish spy comedy film directed by Visa Mäkinen and written by Ismo Sajakorpi. The film stars Ilmari Saarelainen as James Bond impersonator Joonas G ...

''.

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* 1944 births Living people People from Uusikaupunki Finnish male film actors Finnish male television actors 20th-century Finnish male actors {{Finland-actor-stub

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