Antti Litja

{{Short description|Finnish film and television actor (1938–2022)}} {{no footnotes|date=February 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox person |name = Antti Litja |image = Antti Litja.jpg |caption = Litja in 2011 |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1938|2|21}} |birth_place = [[Antrea]], Finland |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2022|7|13|1938|2|21}} |death_place = [[Helsinki]], Finland }}

'''Antti Vilho Olavi Litja''' (21 February 1938 – 13 July 2022) was a Finnish actor.<ref>{{cite web |title=Näyttelijä Antti Litja on kuollut|url=https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000008943726.html |publisher=Helsingin Sanomat |access-date=13 July 2022 |language=Finnish}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Näyttelijä Antti Litjan kuolinilmoitus julkaistiin Helsingin Sanomissa|url=https://www.is.fi/viihde/art-2000008976455.html|publisher=Ilta-Sanomat|access-date=31 July 2022|language=fi|date=31 July 2022}}</ref>

== Career == Litja made over 60 film and television appearances since 1959. A prominent figure in Finnish film in the 1970s and 1980s, since the mid-1990s he mostly appeared on television.

Litja played the main character in the 1977 film ''[[The Year of the Hare (1977 film)|The Year of the Hare]]'' about a Finnish man from [[Helsinki]] who leaves to find a new life in the wilderness.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Suominen |first1=Raili |title=Elämää jäniksen selässä |url=https://www.ts.fi/kulttuuri/1073957533 |publisher=Turun Sanomat |access-date=15 July 2022 |language=Finnish}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''[[The Year of the Hare (1977 film)|The Year of the Hare]]'' (1977) * ''[[Wonderman (1979 film)|Wonderman]]'' (1979) * ''[[The Solar Wind (film)|The Solar Wind]]'' (1980) * ''[[That Kiljunen Family]]'' (1981) * ''[[The Clan – Tale of the Frogs]]'' (1984) * ''[[Farewell, Mr. President]]'' (1987) * ''[[The Glory and Misery of Human Life]]'' (1988) * ''[[A Charming Mass Suicide (film)|A Charming Mass Suicide]]'' (2000) * ''[[Princess (2010 film)|Princess]]'' (2010) * ''[[The Grump]]'' (2014)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0514382|name=Antti Litja}}

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