Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
Only includes names with the selected topics
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
1-9 of 9
- Thomas Hill was born on 2 June 1927 in Landour, Mussoorie, India. He was an actor, known for The NeverEnding Story (1984), The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990) and Firefox (1982). He died on 20 April 2009 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
- Actress
- Music Department
- Producer
Saira was born into a Urdu-speaking family in India. Her mom's name is Naseem Banu.
She spent much of her childhood in London and was able to debut in 1961 in a Bollywood movie 'Junglee' opposite Shammi Kapoor.
At the age of 22, she got married to Yusuf Khan, alias Bollywood superstar Dilip Kumar.
Saira has a niece, Shaheen, who was once married to Bollywood actor, Sumit Saigal, and the couple have a daughter, Sayesha.- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Writer
Tom Alter, the son and grandson of American Presbyterian missionaries who first came to India in 1916, grew up in north India in the towns of Rajpur and Mussoorie, and studied at Woodstock School. It was while teaching at a school in Jagadhri, Haryana in the early 1970s that Alter picked honed his Hindi and fell in love with the movies, in specific Indian cinema. In that era television was not common in India and so most people went to the movies, often several times a week.
Alter was enamored by the films and in June 1972, after noticing a small classified ad in the newspaper, he enrolled at the prestigious prestigious Film and Television Institute of India of Pune. Alter was one of two people selected out of more than 1000 applicants that year and he learned his craft at the FTII, where he studied with the likes of Benjamin Gilani, Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Mithun Chakraborthy and others.
After graduating from FTII, Alter headed straight to Bombay and soon got his first break in the Dev-Anand starrer 'Sahib Bahadur' directed by Chetan Anand. His first release, however, was Ramanand Sagar's 'Charas' in which he played the superstar Dharmendra's CID boss. Steady work came to Alter throughout the 1970s and 80s and he worked with luminaries such as V Shantaram, Raj Kapoor, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Manmohan Desai, Manoj Kumar and Satjajit Rai as well as a host of lesser-known directors. He has also acted in regional cinema - Bengali, Assamese, Telegu, Tamil and Kumaoni films. Alter was witness to the coming of television to India and worked on the small screen in a number of popular serials, the biggest of which was the popular drama 'Junoon' which ran for five years. In it, he played the role of the mob lord Keshal Kalsi - KK, as he was famously known - and his performance earned rave reviews. During this same period Alter acted in the ensemble comedy 'Zabaan Sambhalke', another drama called 'Ghutan', and hosted the health-based talk show 'Mere Ghar Aana Zindagi'.
Some of his most famous movie roles have been as Musa in Vidhu Vinod Chopra's acclaimed crime drama 'Parinda', Mahesh Bhatt's blockbuster romance 'Aashiqui', and Ketan Mehta's 'Sardar', in which Alter essayed the role of Lord Mountbatten. Alter has also accumulated a body of theatrical work, the most recent having been in the theatrical reproduction of William Dalrymple's 'City of Djinns' and the solo play 'Maulana', based on Maulana Azad for which he has received much critical acclaim. He has also received praise for his role in the art film 'Ocean of An Old Man', which has been screened at film festivals around the world. Among several international assignments was the opportunity to work with Peter O'Toole in the Hollywood film 'One Night With The King'.
In addition to acting, Alter has also ventured into direction - he directed a one-shot episode for the short-lived series 'Yule Love Stories' in the mid-1990s - and was a sports journalist in the late 1980s to early 1990s. He has written three books, one non-fiction and two fiction, and in 2008 was awarded the prestigious Padma Shree by the Indian government in recognition for his services to the field of arts and cinema.- Divyansha Kaushik is an Indian actress and model who mainly works in Telugu films.
Kaushik studied at different boarding schools in Dehradun, Mussoorie, and Uttarakhand. After completing her Fashion and Media Communication course in Delhi, she studied makeup artistry by enrolling in a specialised course in England.
Kaushik wanted to become a fashion journalist and the editor of Vogue Magazine. Kaushik's mother, a renowned makeup artist who worked with Rani Mukerji, would take her to photoshoots. This inspired her to pursue a profession as a makeup artist instead.
Kaushik went on to work as an intern for Yash Raj Films and used to look after the filmmaking and casting procedures. During this time, she participated in a photoshoot, and she immediately started getting offers for modelling, including an advertisement for Pantene.
After appearing in advertisements, filmmakers from South India approached Kaushik to join the film industry, which led to her debut in the Telugu film, Majili (2019). The movie was directed by Shiva Nirvana and also starred Naga Chaitanya Akkineni. The film was a hit, and she received a SIIMA award for Best Female Debut.
She then debuted in Hindi films with The Wife (2021), in which she plays the role of Katrina Murad. It was directed by Sarmad Khan and starred Gurmeet Choudhary and Shweta Dadhich.
In 2022, Kaushik played the lead role in Rama Rao on Duty (2022) alongside Ravi Teja. The action thriller was directed by Sarath Mandava.
The following year, Kaushik co-starred with Sundeep Kishan in Michael (2023), which was directed by Ranjit Jeyakodi. - Anita Desai was born on 24 June 1937 in Mussoorie, India. She is a writer, known for In Custody (1994), The Village by the Sea (1991) and Un siècle d'écrivains (1995).
- Animation Department
Clair Weeks was born on 14 September 1911 in Mussoorie, India. He is known for Peter Pan (1953), Banyan Deer (1959) and The Little House (1952). He died on 26 August 1996 in Los Alamitos, California, USA.- Jean Adrienne was born on 23 October 1905 in Mussoorie, India. She was an actress, known for Her Song of Love (1934), After the Ball (1932) and Shipmates o' Mine (1936). She died on 22 February 1994 in London, England, UK.
- Hermione Harvey was born on 25 June 1931 in Mussoorie, India. She was an actress, known for The Howerd Crowd (1952), Theatre Night (1957) and The Dancing Fleece (1950). She was married to Miguel Sintes, John Bradwell and Richard Waring. She died on 25 September 2016 in Spain.
- Actor
- Writer
Paul Roche was born on 25 September 1916 in Mussoorie, India. He was an actor and writer, known for Oedipus the King (1968). He was married to Clarissa Turner. He died on 30 October 2007 in Sóller, Majorca, Spain.