Dilip Kumar

He has been a member of the upper house of Parliament since 2000. See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. He has been active in efforts to bring the people of India and Pakistan closer. Massey has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for movies at 1719 Vine Street and one for television at 6708 Hollywood Blvd. He married her when he was 44 and she was half his age, and despite apprehensions from the media, the marriage has been one of the longest lasting marriages in Bollywood. On July 29, 1983 he died in Los Angeles, California from pneumonia and is buried in New Haven, Connecticut. He is married to actress Saira Banu. His brother was Vincent Massey, the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.

His acting has influenced his successors and many actors look up to him and try to emulate his style. He has two children who followed him into acting: Anna Massey and Daniel Massey. His style of acting is characterised by rich dialogues in Urdu and a poetic manner of delivery. Massey became well-known on television in the 1950s and 1960s, especially in his role as Doctor Gillespie in the series Doctor Kildare. Dilip Kumar is considered one of the best actors produced by the Hindi film industry. Following the war, he became an American citizen. However his award ran into controversy when war-like conditions strained relations between India and Pakistan, and he was asked to return the award by Hindu extremists like Balasaheb Thackeray. He rejoined the Canadian Army during World War II, and was wounded and invalided out in 1943.

He is the second Indian to receive the award, after former Indian prime minister Morarji Desai. Despite being Canadian, Massey became famous for his quintessential American roles, as Abraham Lincoln in 1940's Abe Lincoln in Illinois (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor), in 1941's Santa Fe Trail, in which he played abolitionist John Brown, and as Lincoln again in 1962's How the West Was Won. In 1998 he was awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan, the highest civilian award conferred by the Pakistan government. Early in Massey's career, Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926), heard Massey perform and was struck by the close similarity of Massey's speaking voice to that of his father. He was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1995. G. Wells' Things to Come. The role eventually went to Omar Sharif. In 1936 he starred in H.

However, Kumar was unsure of doing films outside India in which he had no say, and declined the part. His first movie role was High Treason in 1927, and he played Sherlock Holmes in The Speckled Band in the following year. Hollywood director David Lean offered Dilip Kumar a role in his 1962 blockbuster, Lawrence of Arabia. However, drawn to the theater, in 1922 he appeared on the London stage. He tried his hand as Producer for the film Ganga Jamuna and was rewarded as the film turned out to be successful. Severely wounded in action in France, he was sent home where he eventually worked in the family business, selling farm implements. The film Mughal-e-Azam (1960) in which he played crown-prince Jehangir, the son of Akbar, was a record-breaking film in the history of the Indian film industry. His first stage appearance was in Siberia, where he entertained the American troops who were on occupation duty.

In the 50s, his role in Bimal Roy's Devdas as a tragic drunken hero earned him the title of the "Tragedy King". At the outbreak of World War I he joined the Canadian Army. In 1949, he co-starred with Raj Kapoor in the film Andaz, which went to become a major success and made him a superstar. He was educated at Upper Canada College, the University of Toronto and at Balliol College, Oxford, England. Khan adopted the screen name of Dilip Kumar for his first film Jwar Bhatta released in 1944. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was the son of Hart Massey, the wealthy owner of the Massey-Ferguson Tractor Company. His father relocated to Bombay (now Mumbai) and Yusuf Khan got introduced to the Bombay film industry in the 1940s. Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 - July 29, 1983) was a Canadian actor.

Dilip Kumar was born Yusuf Khan in Peshawar (now Pakistan) in a Pathan family of twelve children. He is the recipient of India's highest award for cinematic excellence, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award and also the Nishan-e-Pakistan, Pakistan's highest civilian award. Dilip Kumar (born December 1, 1922) is an Indian film actor and Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha).