# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dwarakish
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:26:32.758Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dwarakish"
name: "Dwarakish"
slug: "dwarakish"
description: "Bungle Shama Rao Dwarakanath, known by his stage name Dwarakish, was an Indian actor, comedian and filmmaker who predominantly worked in Kannada cinema in addition to few Tamil and Hindi films. Starting his career as a supporting actor in Veera Sankalpa (1964) and co-producer for the film Mamatheya Madilu in 1966, Dwarakish went on to work over five decades in cinema. He debuted as a director with the film Nee Bareda Kadambari (1985)."
tagline: "Indian actor, director, producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dwarakish.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: "1942-08-19"
deathDate: "2024-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.8
  momentum:             1.193771626297578
  historical:           6.687408
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1125787/"
    handle:    "nm1125787"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%B4_(%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1)"
    title: "دوارکش (اداکار)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "دواراكيش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarakish"
    title: "Dwarakish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B4"
    title: "داراکیش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%A6%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%B6%E0%B3%8D"
    title: "ದ್ವಾರಕೀಶ್"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%88"
    title: "Дваракиш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B7%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "ద్వారకీష్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5317877"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/585284"
    title: "Dwarakish"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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