# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/s-v-ranga-rao
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:41:06.040Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/s-v-ranga-rao"
name: "S. V. Ranga Rao"
slug: "s-v-ranga-rao"
description: "Samarla Venkata Ranga Rao, popularly known as S. V. Ranga Rao and SVR, was an Indian actor and filmmaker who primarily worked in Telugu and Tamil films. He is regarded as one of the finest actors in the history of Indian cinema. He is known by the epithet \"Viswa Nata Chakravarthi\" and was the earliest known character actor in South Indian cinema to achieve a star status. In a career spanning nearly three decades, Ranga Rao garnered various national and international honours."
tagline: "Indian actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SV_Ranga_Rao_2013_stamp_of_India.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: "1918-07-03"
deathDate: "1974-07-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.75
  momentum:             1.826226870474658
  historical:           6.61168
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710036/"
    handle:    "nm0710036"
sources:
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    title: "ایس وی رنگا راؤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اس. ڤى. رانجا راو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._V._Ranga_Rao"
    title: "S. V. Ranga Rao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5"
    title: "एस वी रंगा राव"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "S. V. Ranga Rao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "எஸ். வி. ரங்கராவ்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%8E%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D.%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF._%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%97%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%81"
    title: "ఎస్.వి. రంగారావు"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7387959"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1003966"
    title: "S. V. Ranga Rao"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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