Filmmaker · India
Guru Dutt
Died in 1964
Guru Dutt, born Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone on 9 July 1925 in Bangalore, the son of a school headmaster and of a teacher and writer, grew up in Calcutta; the director Shyam Benegal was one of his cousins. Trained at Uday Shankar's dance school in Almora, he worked as a telephone operator, then as an actor and choreographer at Prabhat. He died in Bombay on 10 October 1964, aged thirty-nine, from a mixture of alcohol and sleeping pills, and it is not known whether it was an accident; he had already twice attempted to end his life.
In the catalogue 3
- CinemaKaagaz Ke Phoolकागज़ के फूलGuru Dutt · 1959Cinema