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Ellis R. Dungan profile
Director

Ellis R. Dungan

Directing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 5

TMDB ID: 2003866

IMDb ID: nm0006497

Known for: Directing

Born: May 11, 1909

Died: December 1, 2001

Age: 92

Place of birth: Barton, Ohio, U.S.

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1937 - 1977

Years active: 41

Wikidata: Q5365966

Also known as

Ellis Roderick Dungan • Ellis Dungan • ఎల్లిస్ ఆర్. డంగన్

Frequent jobs

Director (2)Associate Producer (1)Consulting Producer (1)Editor (1)

Biography

Ellis Roderick Dungan (May 11, 1909 – December 1, 2001), He was an American film director, who was well known for working in Indian films, predominantly in Tamil cinema, from 1936 to 1950. He was an alumnus of the University of Southern California and moved to India in 1935. During his film career in South India, Dungan directed the debut films of several popular Tamil film actors, such as M. G. Ramachandran in Sathi Leelavathi, T. S. Balaiya and N. S. Krishnan.

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Directed Movies

Movies directed by Ellis R. Dungan.

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