Ramakrishna (Telugu: రామకృష్ణ) was an Indian actor who worked in
Telugu cinema. He has acted in over 200 films, including
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,
Tamil
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, and
Malayalam. He has acted in several super hit Telugu movies such as 'Nomu', 'Pooja', 'Nenu Naa Desam', 'Bomma Borusa', 'Badi panthulu', 'Kurukshetram', 'Yuvataram kadilindi', 'Mantralaya Sri Raghavendra Vaaibhavam', 'Hantakulostunnaru jagrattha', 'Magadu', 'Katakatala Rudraiah', 'Doralu Dongalu', 'Kotalo paga', 'Viswanatha Nayakudu'. He played various roles in several mythological films, including ''Yashoda Krishna'', ''Vinayaka Vijayamu'', ''Devude digivasthe''. He had also acted alongside thespians
N. T. Ramarao and
Akkineni Nageswara Rao.
He was a stage actor from
Bhimavaram
Bhimavaram is a city and headquarters of West Godavari district of the Andhra Pradesh state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Bhimavaram mandal in Bhimavaram revenue division. It is a part of Bhimavaram Urban Development Aut ...
in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, moved to Chennai in the 1950s. His movie debut was in 1960 in ''Nithya Kalyanam Pachathoranam''.
His first marriage was with a woman in Bhimavaram. He had a daughter through her. He left his first wife and daughter and came to Madras. He married Telugu actress
Geetanjali
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''Gitanjali'' ( bn, গীতাঞ্জলি, lit='Song offering') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, for the English translation, Gitanjali:''Song Offer ...
in 1974 and has a son 'Srinivas'. He died in 2001.
Filmography
References
Mantaralaya Sree Raghavendra Vaibhavam (1981)
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1939 births
2001 deaths
Telugu male actors
People from West Godavari district