Ramakrishna (Telugu: రామకృష్ణ) was an Indian actor who worked in

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. He has acted in over 200 films, including

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, and

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. 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 Akkineni Nageswara Rao (20 September 1923 – 22 January 2014), widely known as ANR, was an Indian actor and producer, known for his works majorly in Telugu cinema. He starred in many landmark films in his seventy five-year career, and became on ...

. 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 A ...

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 __NOTOC__ ''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 Off ...

in 1974 and has a son 'Srinivas'. He died in 2001.

Filmography

References

Mantaralaya Sree Raghavendra Vaibhavam (1981)

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* {{Authority control 1939 births 2001 deaths Telugu male actors People from West Godavari district