Ellis R. Dungan

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1909-05-11

Deathday 2001-12-01 (92 years old)

Place of Birth Barton, Ohio, U.S.

Also Known As Ellis Roderick Dungan, Ellis Dungan, ఎల్లిస్ ఆర్. డంగన్

Ellis R. Dungan

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.

Known For

Director

1950
Manthiri Kumari

as Director

1945
Meera

as Director

1945
Valmiki

as Director

1943
Dhaasippen

as Director

1940
Sakuntalai

as Director

1937
Ambikapathy

as Director

1936
Sathi Leelavathi

as Director

1936
Iru Sahodarargal

as Director

Editor

1937
Ambikapathy

as Editor

1936

Producer

1977
For Liberty and Union

as Consulting Producer

Actor

2013
An American in Madras

as Himself (Archive footage)