# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/n-viswanathan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:02:46.418Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/n-viswanathan"
name: "N. Viswanathan"
slug: "n-viswanathan"
description: "Narayanswamy Viswanathan, popularly known as Calcutta Viswanathan in the Tamil film industry, was an Indian actor and academic. A Tamilian by birth, he moved to Calcutta at a young age and taught English at St. Xavier's College, Calcutta for more than 40 years. Viswanathan was also a well-known public speaker. He made his acting debut in Mrinal Sen's Punascha and continued to act in Bengali films. In a career that spanned 40 years, Viswanathan appeared in nearly 100 films in Bengali, Tamil and English. He was a member several theatre groups and also formed the \"Calcutta Players\", an acting troupe."
tagline: "Actor, academic (1929–2010)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/yQcJ2lf2HKKTNebuEHFIhlpEGRz.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1929-07-18"
deathDate: "2010-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.130434782608695
  historical:           5.799861333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0899801/"
    handle:    "nm0899801"
sources:
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    title: "این وشواناتھن"
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    title: "ان. ڤيسواناثان"
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    title: "এন. বিশ্বনাথন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "என். விஸ்வநாதன்"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "N. Viswanathan"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump