Heikki Silvennoinen

Acting

Heikki Silvennoinen

Born 1954-04-27 · Sääminki, Finland

Heikki Johannes Silvennoinen was a Finnish guitarist, singer, songwriter and actor. Silvennoinen began his career with the rock band Tabula Rasa in 1972 but became widely known for the sketch series Kummeli, which began in 1991. Silvennoinen was one of the founding members and worked in the series as both an actor and a scriptwriter. From 2018 to 2023, he worked as a scriptwriter and second lead actor in the police comedy series Kontio & Parmas. Silvennoinen played in the Tabula Rasa from 1972 to 1977, which was one of the best-known representatives of progressive rock in Finland. Although Silvennoinen had been a driving force behind Tabula Rasa, he was more interested in blues-based rock, which he began playing in the 1980s in the bands Frendz, Catwalk and Q.Stone. In the early 1990s Silvennoinen released his first solo album. In the early 2000s, Silvennoinen formed the Finnish blues supergroup SF-Blues as a joint project between Pepe Ahlqvist and Dave Lindholm.

Acting credits

Kummeli Kultakuume poster
6.4

Psychiatric patient Elmeri knows about the existence of a gold treasure in Finnish Lapland, hidden there by his late father who somehow managed to capture it from withdrawing German troops on the last days of WW2. His openly gay nurse helps him escape from the mental institution, and the two men slowly find their way up north to reach the gold. On their way, the odd couple meets a cavalcade of even odder characters.

Kummeli Kultakuume

1997

The Subtenant poster
4.5

A farce about blackmailing, a kidney transplant operation performed at home, deviants and human relationships.

The Subtenant

2008

Nyrölä 3 poster
5.5

Summer night, fraying country idyll, motorcycle gang and a murder.

Nyrölä 3

2004

Kummeli Stories poster
6.3

The war between Luxembourg and Finland sets the outline to a set of comedic stories about a rally team, gay couple's fishing trip, two hoodlums' last school days in the spring and a haunted hotel among others.

Kummeli Stories

1995

Glass Ceiling poster
2.0

Sari works in middle management for a multinational company, and a promotion is within her grasp. She just has to finish her last presentation, break the glass ceiling and make it to the conference room in time.

Glass Ceiling

2015

Joulukalenteri: Talvipihan joulu poster
NR

Christmas calendar: Winter Yard Christmas tells the story of seven animals—a donkey, a pig, a duck, two goats, and two dogs—and a young man named Onni (Topi Kanerva), who try to save a traditional but bankrupt farm from going out of business just before Christmas. Ilona (Isadora Brown), who lives in a nearby apartment building, also comes to their aid. Onni is in debt to the greedy village shopkeeper Roimola (Heikki Silvennoinen), who has other plans for Talvipiha. Will Onni and the animals have to move away from their home, or will a Christmas miracle happen?

Joulukalenteri: Talvipihan joulu

Jackpot poster
6.5

Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting.

Jackpot

2006

Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies poster
3.7

Uuno Turhapuro's younger brother Peni arrives in Helsinki. Uuno helps his brother in management duties.

Johtaja Uuno Turhapuro pisnismies

1998

Kummeli esittää: Kontio & Parmas poster
3.3

Senior officer Otso Kontio has finally hung up his gun and badge and is spending his peaceful retiment days at his cabin. The peace is broken when his old partner Auni Parmas brings news about the destruction threatening the municipality of Valkeakoski.

Kummeli esittää: Kontio & Parmas

2022

Towards the Day of Doom poster
5.4

Four stories about Finnish life intersect. In the first one, drum artist Monkki Mähönen arrives for a renovation job at his old band mate's summer villa. Second story revolves around wannabe motorcycle gang and its leader Jouni who are being humiliated at a village shop. Thirdly in the 1960s, a star reporter Erkki "Likasanko" Sysimetsä starts writing a once in a lifetime story about the womanizing of Arvo Hakala, a pipe organ repair man. In the fourth story, a fantasy and sci-fi film director Kurt "Kurre" von Riikonen is looking for financing of his upcoming movie Excalibur IV with catastrophic consequences.

Towards the Day of Doom

2014

The Year of '85: Rock Your Memories poster
4.5

The movie is about the Lokomo laborer, and group of friends that dreams come true and a thirst for fast-paced life that take decades.

The Year of '85: Rock Your Memories

2013

Ricky Rapper and the Miser from Seville poster
5.0

Ricky Rapper gets a letter from a distant relative who's looking for an heir.

Ricky Rapper and the Miser from Seville

2015

Lapland Odyssey 4 poster
3.9

Hunt for the elusive tofu in the Arctic Circle.

Lapland Odyssey 4

2022

King of Hearts poster
5.7

The story of Kari Tapio, who sang his way into the hearts of the Finns in the 70's and whose popularity lasted until his death in 2010.

King of Hearts

2019

Heikki Silvennoinen - kitaristi ja koomikko poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Heikki Silvennoinen - kitaristi ja koomikko

2024

Talvipihan joulu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Talvipihan joulu

Rally On! poster
5.0

This rollicking sports comedy from Finnish director Markku Polonen follows the exploits of Seppo 'Sladi' Pesonen, an ex-top-tiered race car driver now reduced to instructing students at a driving school. To relieve the monotony of this undesired career, Pesonen builds "Team Susan," a road rally team based at Pekkarinen's Garage in the Finnish countryside. Soon, Sladi's nephew Luumu arrives from Helsinki and learns of the team, his enthusiasm skyrockets and he hops on board with the assist of mechanic Suko. Yet the men encounter Machiavellian sabotage at the hands of the vile Torppo, the owner of the lot that contains Pekkarinen's Garage, who is determined to interfere with the plans of Team Susan.

Rally On!

2009

Mr. Hayhill and the Lion Wind Vane poster
5.5

During the Finnish war, highway robber Jeppe Antinpoika robs the Swedish king's treasure and the bag of precious stones remains hidden for 200 years. City girl Arska arrives on vacation at Herra Heinämäki's farm. Heinämäki's neighbor, the baker Kakelberg, has a haunted house and one evening Arska runs into a mysterious creep. Arska starts solving the riddle of the baker's house with Heinämäki.

Mr. Hayhill and the Lion Wind Vane

2011

Laughing Matters poster
5.5

Recently unemployed and feeling a little bit lost, Maria takes part in stand-up class and ends up on a competition tour for novice comedians.

Laughing Matters

2020

Garbage Prince poster
5.0

Jed (19) walks out on his former life, without destination, without explanation, and gets on a train. He ends up by happenstance in a small eastern town in Finland where he soon comes face to face with the daily rigors of independent life. Coping becomes a challenge for him almost to the point of being an obsession. Of all the people in town, Jed seems to constantly run across the prickly and quick-witted Lulu (17). Gradually, without either of them admitting it, their relationship changes from bickering, picking on each other and a battle of wills to friendship, and as can happen, finally to love.

Garbage Prince

2011

Behind the camera

Kummeli Stories poster
6.3

The war between Luxembourg and Finland sets the outline to a set of comedic stories about a rally team, gay couple's fishing trip, two hoodlums' last school days in the spring and a haunted hotel among others.

Kummeli Stories

1995

Kummeli esittää: Kontio & Parmas poster
3.3

Senior officer Otso Kontio has finally hung up his gun and badge and is spending his peaceful retiment days at his cabin. The peace is broken when his old partner Auni Parmas brings news about the destruction threatening the municipality of Valkeakoski.

Kummeli esittää: Kontio & Parmas

2022

Towards the Day of Doom poster
5.4

Four stories about Finnish life intersect. In the first one, drum artist Monkki Mähönen arrives for a renovation job at his old band mate's summer villa. Second story revolves around wannabe motorcycle gang and its leader Jouni who are being humiliated at a village shop. Thirdly in the 1960s, a star reporter Erkki "Likasanko" Sysimetsä starts writing a once in a lifetime story about the womanizing of Arvo Hakala, a pipe organ repair man. In the fourth story, a fantasy and sci-fi film director Kurt "Kurre" von Riikonen is looking for financing of his upcoming movie Excalibur IV with catastrophic consequences.

Towards the Day of Doom

2014

Rally On! poster
5.0

This rollicking sports comedy from Finnish director Markku Polonen follows the exploits of Seppo 'Sladi' Pesonen, an ex-top-tiered race car driver now reduced to instructing students at a driving school. To relieve the monotony of this undesired career, Pesonen builds "Team Susan," a road rally team based at Pekkarinen's Garage in the Finnish countryside. Soon, Sladi's nephew Luumu arrives from Helsinki and learns of the team, his enthusiasm skyrockets and he hops on board with the assist of mechanic Suko. Yet the men encounter Machiavellian sabotage at the hands of the vile Torppo, the owner of the lot that contains Pekkarinen's Garage, who is determined to interfere with the plans of Team Susan.

Rally On!

2009