Bo Ba Ko ( my, ဗိုလ်ဗကို) was one of the revolutionary leader in Fascist Japan Revolution and two-time

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winning film actor, military service, writer, film director, and University lecturer in Myanmar.စာရေးဆရာ ဗိုလ်ဗကို
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Early life and education

Bo Ba Ko was born on 11 December 1919 in Mandalay to U Than and Daw Tint. In 1941, he achieved the Academy of Arts (Honors) from the University of Yangon by the first phase. Later he joined the

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and was involved in the struggle for independence. He had retired as Major army in 1951 after independence. He had been received Zayakyawhtin Medal and Wannakyawhtin Medal by the government. After, he received a law degree. In 1955, he received a

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from The

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. In 1958, he received the ''Star of Independence (the second tier)'' due to be carried out seeking independence.

Career

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, he became actor at first Panorama film of

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. In 1970 and 1971, he won the

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for the "Thida Pyone"(Thida smile) and "Turn the World"(Ta Kwae Ta Kabar) movies. Since 1976, he had worked as the vice president of the organizing committee of Film Council, as the external examiner of

Yangon University '') , mottoeng = There's no friend like wisdom. , established = , type = Public , rector = Dr. Tin Mg Tun , undergrad = 4194 , postgrad = 5748 , city = Kamayut 11041, Yangon , state = Yangon Regio ...

Mandalay University Mandalay University (also translated as University of Mandalay; my, မန္တလေးတက္ကသိုလ် ) is a public liberal arts and science university located in Mandalay, Myanmar and one of the sixteen autonomous universities un ...

Pathein University Pathein (, ; mnw, ဖာသီ, ), formerly called Bassein, is the largest city and the capital of the Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar (Burma). It is located 190 km (120 mi) west of Yangon within Pathein Township on the bank of the Pathe ...

and Mawlamyine College. And then, he served as Linguistics teacher at the Myanmar Department of

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Death

He died at

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on 22 June 1985 at the age of 65.

Popular movies

Awards and nominations

References

*ပြန်ကြားရေးနှင့် ပြည်သူ့ ဆက်ဆံရေး ဦးစီးဌာန စာတည်းအဖွဲ့ {{DEFAULTSORT:Ba Ko, Bo 1919 births 1985 deaths Burmese writers People from Mandalay Region Recipients of the Wunna Kyawhtin Academic staff of the University of Yangon