# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/p-u-chinnappa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:52:26.228Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/p-u-chinnappa"
name: "P. U. Chinnappa"
slug: "p-u-chinnappa"
description: "Pudukottai Ulaganathan Chinnaswamy Pillai, popularly known as P. U. Chinnappa, was an Indian actor and playback singer during the 30s era from Pudukottai, India. He is also credited as one of the first major influential actors of Tamil cinema. His notable movies include Uthama Puthiran, Aryamala, Kannagi, Manonmani, Kubera Kuchela and Jagathalapratapan."
tagline: "Indian actor (1916–1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PUChinnappa.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1916-05-05"
deathDate: "1951-09-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.17
  momentum:             7.93659449345095
  historical:           5.786289333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0157943/"
    handle:    "nm0157943"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C_%DB%8C%D9%88_%DA%86%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%A7"
    title: "پی یو چناپا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%89._%D9%8A%D9%88._%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%A7"
    title: "پى. يو. كيناپا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._U._Chinnappa"
    title: "P. U. Chinnappa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%BF.%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%81._%E0%B4%9A%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA"
    title: "പി.യു. ചിന്നപ്പ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.U._Chinnappa"
    title: "P.U. Chinnappa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81._%E0%AE%89._%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE"
    title: "பு. உ. சின்னப்பா"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5296877"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1135953"
    title: "P. U. Chinnappa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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