Career
His career included theatre, where he was both an actor and a director, motion pictures and television Notably, in 1953 he was one of the founders of "Kivi-juhlat’ (a theatre festival based in the childhood town of Aleksis Kivi) and was its first director In addition he authored two books, Myllykylästä Maailmalle (1975) and Maailmassa Maailmaa (1983).