Kaarlo Vilhelm "Kille" Oksanen, born 11 January 1911 in Helsinki, died 14 October 1941 in

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, Soviet Union,OKSANEN, KAARLO VILHELM
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and film actor who was killed in

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Football career

In 1927–1928 Oksanen played for Kullervo Helsinki, which was a member of the left-wing

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(TUL). At the time, Finnish football was split in two, TUL and the

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clubs played in their own series and the Finland national team was composed of FA players only. Oksanen won the 1928 TUL Championship with Kullervo and in October he was selected to the

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against the

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in Helsinki. Before the 1929 season Oksanen defected to the FA member club

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in order to play for the Finland national team. He debuted for Finland in October 1929 against

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in Hamburg and became a regular member of the national team. Oksanen played 39 out of 43 Finland internationals between 1929 and 1937, but was not selected to the 1936 Berlin

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by the manager

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Club honours

* TUL Championship: 1928 *

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: 1929, 1932, 1934, 1935

Film career

Oksanen started acting in the early 1930s. His first major film role was in the 1937 film ''Nuorena Nukkunut'' by

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, based on a novel by the Nobel Prize winning author F. E. Sillanpää. In 1940 Oksanen got married with the actress Rakel Linnanheimo (1909–2004).Kille Oksanen
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Filmography

*''Nuorena nukkunut'' (1937) *'' The Song of the Scarlet Flower'' (1938) * ''

In the Fields of Dreams ''In the Fields of Dreams'' (Finnish: ''Unelma karjamajalla'') is a 1940 Finnish drama film directed by Teuvo Tulio and starring Sirkka Salonen, Olga Tainio and Kaarlo Oksanen. It is a remake of the 1933 Swedish film ''People of Hälsingland''. ...

'' (1940) *''Antreas ja syntinen Jolanda'' (1941)

Death

At the World War II Oksanen served as a runner. He was wounded by the

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and died at a field hospital in October 1941.

References

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