# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/b-r-panthulu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:48:47.757Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/b-r-panthulu"
name: "B. R. Panthulu"
slug: "b-r-panthulu"
description: "Budaguru Ramakrishnaiah Panthulu was an Indian film director, producer and actor. He is best known for directing films in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi. His most popular films are Karnan, Veerapandiya Kattabomman, Sri Krishnadevaraya, School Master and Kittur Channamma, B. R. Panthulu, is a successful actor and converted Ma. Po. Si.'s biographic works Veerapandiya Kattabomman and Kappalottiya Thamizhan to celluloid."
tagline: "Indian cinematographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BRBandulu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1910-07-26"
deathDate: "1974-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.71
  momentum:             5.150873478030705
  historical:           7.369698666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0659849/"
    handle:    "nm0659849"
sources:
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    title: "B. R. Panthulu"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ಬಿ.ಆರ್.ಪಂತುಲು"
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    title: "بی آر پنتھولو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1052919"
    title: "B. Ramakrishnaiah Panthulu"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump