Subbaiah Naidu

Indian actor
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroIndian actor
PlacesIndia
wasActor Film director
Work fieldFilm, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender
Male
Birth1 January 1896
Death21 July 1962 (aged 66 years)
Family
Children:Lokesh
The details

Biography

M. V. Subbaiah Naidu (1896 - 21 July 1962) was an Indian stage artiste in the silent movies era. He was an actor and director, well known for the movies Sati Sulochana (1934) in Kannada, which was also the first Kannada talkie, Bhukailasa (1940) in Telugu and Bhakta Prahlada (1958) in Kannada. He acted in the first Kannada movie and brought distinction to Kannada cinema. He was the father of Kannada actor Lokesh and the grandfather of Kannada TV personality Srujan Lokesh.

Partial filmography

YearFilmRole
1934Sati Sulochana
1941Vasantsena
1943Satya Harishchandra
1947Mahatma Kabir
1958Bhakta Prahlada

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