Vilho Siivola

{{Short description|Finnish actor and director}}

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|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1910|4|10}}

|birth_place = Valkeakoski, Finland

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Vilho Siivola (10 April 1910 – 28 November 1984) was a Finnish actor, film director, television director and a member of the Council of Theatre.{{Cite web |title=Etusivu |url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/1198 |access-date=2022-12-27 |website=kansallisbiografia.fi}}

Siivola was born in Valkeakoski. His career included theatre, where he was both an actor and a director, motion pictures and television. Notably, in 1953 he was one of the founders of 'Kivi-juhlat’ (a theatre festival based in the childhood town of Aleksis Kivi) and was its first director in 1977.{{Cite book |last=Robinson |first=Douglas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=341ZDgAAQBAJ |title=Aleksis Kivi and/as World Literature |date=2017-03-06 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-34026-8 |pages=308 |language=en}} In addition he wrote two books, Myllykylästä Maailmalle (1975) and Maailmassa Maailmaa (1983). He died, aged 74, in Helsinki.