Kauko Helovirta

Kauko Kustaa Helovirta (Hellström, 21 October 1924 – 13 September 1997, Helsinki, Finland) was a Finnish film actor. Helovirta was born in Juupajoki, and started his acting career in 1950. He made about 40 Finnish-language films between then and 1995. Helovirta starred in the 1977 film Jäniksen vuosi, a film about a man from Helsinki who leaves to find a new life in the wilderness, alongside actor Antti Litja. Towards the end of his career in the mid-1990s he appeared on television. He died in Helsinki.