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Biography
Gemunu Wijesuriya was a Sri Lankan broadcaster, comedian, singer and radio programme producer.
Personal life
Wijesuriya was born in 1934 in Dewalapola, Sri Lanka and studied at Udugampola Maha Vidyalaya. He was married to Maali and had two children.
Career
He started his carrier life as a radio artist joining the Radio Ceylon (currently known as Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) with Lama Pitiya, a popular radio programme produced by Karunaratne Abeysekera for the children of the country. He was a popular radio artist and comedian who contributed the radio programmes like Muwanpalassa and Vinoda Samaya and he contributed to the Sinhala Cinema as an actor for Sinhala films like “Dulika”, Thun Man Handiya, “Hara Lakshaya”, “Hadaya” and “Binaramalee”. Gemunu Wijesuriya gave his voice for some Tele-Cartoons like Dosthara Hondahita and Pissu Poosa produced by Titus Thotawatte for Rasaara telecast by Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation. He was capable for performing with many different voices to different characters in the same programme. Wijesuriya died on 19 March 2007 in Colombo.