Åke Lindman
Åke Leonard Lindman (born Åke Leonard Järvinen; 11 January 1928 – 3 March 2009) was a Finnish director and actor. In his youth Lindman was a football player, playing defence for the Finnish national team during the Olympics in Helsinki 1952. He represented the football club HIFK in the Finnish league where he played 81 games and scored 9 goals, he also played in second division for 8 seasons. In the 1960s, the British English Football League club Swindon Town F.C. wanted to sign him, but he turned them down to focus on his acting career. Åke Lindman's  breakthrough as an actor came with his role as the stubborn soldier Lehto in Edvin Laine's movie "The Unknown Soldier" from 1955. Later, he would also achieve fame as captain Torsten Jansson in the Swedish soap opera "Rederiet". Lindman also found success as the director of, amongst others, the TV-series "Stormskärs Maja" and the movie "Framom främsta linjen", a movie about the Finland-Swedish infantry regiment 61 during the defence of the Karelian Isthmus in 1944. His last film was the war movie "Tali-Ihantala 1944". Lindman won two Jussi Awards, one for best director in 1988 and  a Lifetime Achievement award in 2008. Personal life. He was born in Helsinki and grew up in a working class Vallila neighbourhood. His father was a truck driver. His brother Tor, who also became a footballer, was born in 1930. In 1932 his father Väinö Järvinen past away from Pneumonia and some years later his mother Edit remarried to Gösta Lindman. Åke was already an adult when he was legally adopted and changed his surname to his step-fathers.