Ilmari Saarelainen is a Finnish

Finland

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 actor

Actor

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. His career has been mainly based on television

Television

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Saarelainen began acting in 1970 appearing in a number of TV series. His career has mainly been based on Finnish television

Television

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 although in the early to mid 1980s he starred in a number of Finnish films most famously as the bumbling lead character in the 1983 James Bond

James Bond

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Parody

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 Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit

Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit

Agentti 000 ja kuolema kurvit was a 1983 Finnish spy comedy film directed by Visa Mäkinen and written by Ismo Sajakorpi. The film stars Ilmari Saarelainen as James Bond impersonator Joonas G. Breitenfeldt and Tenho Saurén as a bank robber...

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