Actor

Utpal Dutt

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Acting credits

147

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Very extensive acting filmography.

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0.6

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Movies: 148Series: 0Crew credits: 3

TMDB ID: 52265

IMDb ID: nm0244884

Known for: Acting

Born: March 29, 1929

Died: August 19, 1993

Age: 64

Place of birth: Barisal, Bengal Presidency, British India

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1950 - 2008

Years active: 59

Average TMDB rating: 7.52

Wikidata: Q2723876

Also known as

उत्पल दत्त • উৎপল দত্ত

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Director (2)Theatre Play (1)

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Biography

(29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the "Little Theatre Group" in 1949. This group enacted many English, Shakespearean and Brecht plays, in a period now known as the "Epic theatre" period, before it immersed itself completely in highly political and radical theatre. His plays became an apt vehicle for the expression of his Marxist ideologies, visible in socio-political plays such as Kallol (1965), Manusher Adhikar, Louha Manob (1964), Tiner Toloar and Maha-Bidroha. He also acted in over 100 Bengali and Hindi films in a career spanning 40 years, and remains most known for his roles in films such as Mrinal Sen’s Bhuvan Shome (1969), Satyajit Ray’s Agantuk (1991), Gautam Ghose’s Padma Nadir Majhi (1992) and Hrishikesh Mukherjee's breezy Hindi comedies such as Gol Maal (1979) and Rang Birangi (1983).[1][2][3][4] He also did the role of a sculptor, Sir Digindra Narayan, in the episode Seemant Heera of Byomkesh Bakshi (TV series) on Doordarshan in 1993, shortly before his death.