Actor · Telugu cinema
Gummadi Venkateswara Rao
Gummadi Venkateswara Rao movies: 255 Telugu films on file, 1953–2022. Earliest on file: Pitchi Pullaiah (1953). Latest release: Pratibimbalu (5 November 2022).
- Films on file
- 255 (255 as actor)
- Years on file
- 1953–2022
- Born
- 9 July 1928 · July birthdays (Wikidata)
- Died
- 26 January 2010
- Selected films on file
- Mayabazar, Bobbili Raja, Gaayam
- Record
- Q10976161 on Wikidata
Career on file
Gummadi Venkateswara Rao appears in 255 Telugu films on file at Tollywood Desk, dated from 1953 to 2022. The earliest of them is Pitchi Pullaiah (1953), and the most recent release is Pratibimbalu (2022). The most widely covered of these, counted by Wikipedia language editions, are Mayabazar (1957), Bobbili Raja (1990) and Gaayam (1993). Other recent releases on file are Aayanaki Iddaru (1995), Sankalpam (1995) and Govinda Govinda (1994).
Akkineni Nageswara Rao is the most frequent co-star, sharing 91 films with Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, followed by N. T. Rama Rao (70) and Kaikala Satyanarayana (55). Among directors, V. Madhusudhan Rao cast Gummadi Venkateswara Rao most often, in 23 films; next are Adurthi Subba Rao (15) and Dasari Narayana Rao (13). Music on 44 of them is by K. V. Mahadevan, with S. Rajeswara Rao (32) and K. Chakravarthy (30) next. Suresh Productions produced ten of them, more than any other banner on file. Across these films the credits on file name 95 different directors, 49 music directors and 172 other credited actors.
Runtime is on file for 185 of them; they average 155 minutes, and the longest is Daana Veera Soora Karna at 227 minutes. Three of them have a streaming (OTT) release noted on the site. By decade the list splits into 1950s (30), 1960s (84), 1970s (68), 1980s (55), 1990s (17) and 2020s (1). 1960 is the busiest single year, with 12 films.
Figures come from the films on file at Tollywood Desk and change as records are added.