# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yaragudipati-varada-rao
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:31:32.147Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yaragudipati-varada-rao"
name: "Yaragudipati Varada Rao"
slug: "yaragudipati-varada-rao"
description: "Yaragudipati Varada Rao was an Indian director, actor, screenwriter, and editor known for his works primarily in Telugu, Kannada, and Tamil films. Rao plunged into theatre and did a few stage plays before moving to Kolhapur and Bombay to act in silent films. Rao started his career as a lead actor in many silent films such as Gajendra Moksham (1923), Garuda Garvabhangam (1929), and Rose of Rajasthan (1931). Regarded as one of the greatest filmmaking pioneers of the Cinema of South India, he made motion-pictures across Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Konkani, and Hindi languages, apart from silent films."
tagline: "Indian actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/YVRao.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: "1903-05-30"
deathDate: "1973-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.69
  momentum:             6.035658101730467
  historical:           6.510088
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710622/"
    handle:    "nm0710622"
sources:
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    title: "وائی ​​وی راؤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ஒய். வி. ராவ்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "వై.వి. రావు"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ياراجوديپاتى ڤارادا راو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Y. V. Rao"
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    title: "Yaragudipati Varada Rao"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ವೈ.ವಿ.ರಾವ್"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Y. V. Rao"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump