Risto Orko

The recorded working language is Finnish. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are comedy and drama fiction. Places of work recorded in the authority are Helsinki. Distinctions recorded are Jussi Awards, Lifetime Concrete Jussi Award, Commander First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland and Commander of the Order of the White Rose of Finland.

• Name — Risto Orko • Birth Name — Risto Eliel William Nylund • Born — 15 September 1899 • Birthplace — Rauma, Finland • Died — 29 September 2001 • Place of death — Helsinki, Finland • Occupation — Film producer and director

Orko was born in Rauma. With a career of over 60 years at the film studio Suomi-Filmi, he rose to be head of production and chief director in the 1930s. He became its CEO in 1945. In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Suomi-Filmi produced hundreds of films and numerous shorts. In the years 1933–43, Orko directed many films, including two (Aktivistit and Jääkärin morsian), which were banned for being "overly patriotic". He had a joint cooperation with the German film industry during World War II. Orko also directed a Finnish-Soviet co-production, released into the American market with subtitles, entitled The Day the Earth Froze in 1959.

His death in Helsinki, aged 102, was received with great sadness in his native Finland; thereafter he became known as the "last Finnish Film Tycoon".

• The Dead Man Falls in Love (1942) • Sampo (1959) • Onnelliset leikit (1964) • The Headquarters (1970) • Borrowing Matchsticks (1980)