- Brother of Ilmari Tapiovaara and Tapio Tapiovaara.
- His last film One Man's Fate (1940) was finished by producer/cinematographer Erik Blomberg and actor Hugo Hytönen after Tapiovaara became one of the many victims of the World War II.
- Spoke Finnish, Swedish, English, German, French and Russian.
- Started as a film critic, then went on to run a theater and direct few plays for it and then was hired to direct Juha (1937), his first film. At the time of his death, he was in a relationship with a female film critic _Toini Aaltonen_.
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