Career
He was Chief Executive Officer of the production company Suomen Filmiteollisuus. Before his career in filmmaking, Särkkä worked as a bank manager and chairman in Kotimainen Työ, an organization promoting Finnish work and products. In 1965, when Finnish film industry was in difficulties due to the coming of television, Särkkä initiated bankruptcy of Suomen Filmiteollisuus.
Films directed by Särkkä are e.g.
Suomisen perhe, Helmikuun manifesti, Kulkurin valssi and Vaivaisukon morsian. Särkkä married Russian-Lithuanian Margariitta Beljavsky in 1914.
They had one daughter.