Heimo Haitto

Heimo Haitto was born on May 22, 1925 in Finland. Heimo Haitto's big-screen debut came with The Hard-Boiled Canary directed by Andrew L. Stone in 1941, strarring Heimo Haitto.

By 1939, Heimo Haitto was, at 14, already well-known as a violinist throughout his native Finland and Europe. The Russo-Finnish war threw family life into disarray. Heimo's father decided to send his prodigy son to the States together with the boy's music teacher, Boris Sirpo who took him to safety in America and settled in Los Angeles. Heimo's 2 brothers and 1 sister remained in Finland.