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Filmmaker · India

Raj Kapoor

Died in 1988

Raj Kapoor was born in Peshawar on 14 December 1924, the eldest son of the actor Prithviraj Kapoor, and began in the Bombay studios as a clapper boy and assistant to Kidar Sharma. In 1948, at twenty-four, he founded his own company, R. K. Films, and became the youngest director of his time. On screen he created for himself the character of a tramp inspired by Chaplin's Charlie. Seized by an acute asthma attack on 2 May 1988, during the ceremony at which he was receiving the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, he died in New Delhi on 2 June following, according to most sources.

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