Soumitra Chatterjee
Acting
🎂 1935-01-19
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay (Shoumitro Chôttopaddhae; born 19 January 1935 — 15 November 2020) was an Indian Bengali film and stage actor and poet. He was best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films, and his constant comparison with the Bengali cinema screen idol Uttam Kumar, his contemporary leading man of the 1960s and 1970s. Soumitra Chatterjee is also the first Indian film personality to be conferred with the Commandeur de l’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's highest award for artists. He is also the winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award which is India's highest award for cinema. Not only that, in 2017 exactly thirty years after auteur Satyajit Ray was honoured with France's highest civilian award, the coveted Legion of Honor, thespian Soumitra Chatterjee, arguably, the most prominent face of Ray's films, is set to receive the prestigious award. Starting with his debut film, Apur Sansar (The World of Apu, 1959), the third part of Apu Trilogy, he went on to work in several notable films with Ray, including Abhijan (The Expedition, 1962), Charulata (The Lonely Wife, 1964), Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest, 1969); Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder, 1973); Sonar Kella (The Fortress, 1974) as Feluda and Joi Baba Felunath (The Elephant God, 1978) as Feluda, Ghare Baire (The Home and The World, 1984) and Ganashatru (Enemy of the People, 1989). Meanwhile, he also worked with other noted directors of Bengali cinema, with Mrinal Sen in Akash Kusum (Up in the Clouds, 1965), Tapan Sinha in Kshudhita Pashan (Hungry Stones, 1960), Jhinder Bandi (1961), Asit Sen in Swaralipi (1961), Ajoy Kar in Saat Pake Bandha (1963), Parineeta (1969), and Tarun Mazumdar in Sansar Simante (1975) and Ganadevata (1978). He acted more than 210 films in his career till 2016. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2004. In 2012, he received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in cinema given by the government of India for lifetime achievement. He has won two National Film Awards as an actor, and as an actor in Bengali theatre, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1998, given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama. In 2013, IBN LIVE named him as one of "The men who changed the face of the Indian Cinema". In 2014, he received the introductory Filmfare Awards East for Best Male Actor (Critics) for his role in Rupkatha Noy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Soumitra Chatterjee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cast credits(275)
Apurba "Apu" Kumar Ray
1959
Amal
1964
Amulya (segment "The Conclusion")
1961
Narsingh
1962
Prodosh Chandra Mitra (Feluda)
1974
Umaprasad
1960
Khitish Sinha (Khid-da)
1984
Narendra Sen
1988
Gangacharan Chakravarti
1973
2009
Prodosh Mitra (Feluda)
1979
Col Samaresh Bagchi
2012
2019
2019
1964
2001
Self
2003
2007
Udayan Pandit
1980
Hemen Mama
2001
Amitabha Roy
1965
Prashanto Majumdar
1990
Chhana
2019
Satinath
1967
2000
Asim
1970
Himself
2018
Aghor Sen
2003
2003
Father
1991
2014
Ajoy Sarkar
1965
Benimadhab Roy Choudhury
2020
Shyam
1973
1977
Byomkesh Bakshi
2014
Goutam Sadhu
2015
1960
Ravi (Old)
2005
Shekhar
1969
1966
Moni Biswas
2000
2000
2003
Jayanta Choudhury
1962
Dr. Ashok Gupta
1990
Subir / Montu
1969
2022
Sudhanshu Mukherjee
1986
Taposh Ray / Gobardhan Bhattacharya
1970
Train passenger
2016
Rajat Subhra Majumdar
2018
2009
Gobinda Narayan
2018
2007
2006
2011
Naren
1976
1993
Sudhamoy Choudhury (Rohini's father)
1999
Sandip Mukherjee
1985
2006
Chiranjib
1968
2018
Self
2021
Biswanath Sarkar
2022
Biswanath Majumdar
2015
Borun Chakraborty
2020
1990
1978
Bijoychandra (as Soumitra Chattopadhyay)
1988
2013
Voice narrator
2015
Gurudev
2005
Sushovan
2017
Chief Minister
2006
Akhilesh Chatterjee
2017
Amitava Sarkar
2020
2005
2007
Debu Pandit
1978
(Archive Footage)
2014
Dr. Ashesh Roy
1963
1995
Dhritimaan Panja
2019
Sisir Roy
2013
Asit Dhar
1995
Shashanka Palit
2006
Priyaranjan Roychoudhury
1982
1969
2014
Khokon Chowdhary (as Soumitra Chattopadhyay)
1974
Krishna Kanta (Uncle Of Govindlal)
2007
Dr. Sengupta
1994
2021
Subodh
1961
1997
2022
1982
1983
Dr. Pratul Bhattacharjee
1970
1961
2008
1998
Church Father
2018
2012
Haraprassana
2010
Sukanto Basu
1970
Sukumar
2015
2013
Sukhendu
1963
2021
1988
1999
Stranger
2021
1996
Monimohan Mukherjee / Soumen Ray
1967
2014
2006
Narrator
2021
1998
2002
2000
Ajoy Chowdhury / Kumar Chowdhury
1966
Vishnu
1995
2013
1998
2001
2002
2018
2022
1978
Feluda
1992
2001
1975
Chandranath Chatterjee
1962
Om's Grand Father
2020
Self
1967
Mitali's father
2006
1975
1986
Subroto Gupto
1965
1972
1984
2015
1981
2019
1992
1980
1973
Amit Ray
2019
1996
1999
1996
1981
1991
Suryashekhar
2010
2009
2024
1993
2010
2013
Sitapati
1972
2017
2003
2008
2015
Chief Minister
2007
2009
2005
1991
1983
Koushik Mitra
1974
1973
Gokul Majumdar
1985
2022
2013
Himself
2023
1977
Anandamohan Bhattacharya
2004
1984
2013
2019
Kabir Choudhury
2013
1997
1991
Self
2019
2001
2012
1980
2021
Police officer
1998
2021
2012
1997
2023
2000
1980
1982
2018
Bijoy's father
1990
1970
Shankar Banerjee
1971
Debdas
1979
Amber Sen / Ashwini "Ash" Ghosh
1999
1987
1971
2021
2017
2011
2021
1962
Bodhisattva
2012
2012
Narrator / Rama
1987
1986
2018
1991
1998
2019
1967
1993
2022
Mastermoshai
2011
1965
2001
1977
2019
2001
2009
Ramesh
1979
Self
1998
Actor
2020
Dinen Lahiri
2017
(Triple Role) Arunabha Mukherjee / Shankar Narayan / Rudra Narayan
1976
2014
narrator
2005
School Teacher
2019
Zahir Ahamed
2012
2010
Barin
1972
1994
2019
2018
1972
1981
2017
1985
2002
1983
2001
1973
1971
1982
2008
2012
1988
Himself
2017
1992
1983
2011
2016
1975
1997
2000
1964
2021
1972
Apurba Ray
2009
Father of Rohini
2022
Soumitra Chatterjee
2015
1990
2017
1974