Manmohan (actor)

Manmohan
Manmohan in the movie Purab Aur Pachhim
Born	Jamshedpur, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India
Died	August 1979 Mumbai, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	actor, producer
Years active	1963–till death
Known for	Gumnaam, Aandhi
Children	Nitin Manmohan (Producer)

Manmohan (Hindi: मनमोहन) was an Indian actor of Bollywood, well known for his role as a villain. He also worked in Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi films.

He was born and brought up in Jamshedpur. Manmohan came from a well to do family, who had their own business. Totally different from his other three brothers, he was very keen on becoming an actor from childhood. His son Nitin Manmohan is a famous producer, who produced popular films like Bol Radha Bol (1992), Laadla (1994), Deewangee (2001) and Bhoot (2003) etc.

He came to Bombay in 1950 and got acquainted with then famous personalities like Shankar-Jaikishen, Bhappi Sonie and G.P. Sippy. His close association with Jaikishen got him known to Keval Kayshap who cast him in his first film Shaheed. He was also in all of Bhappie Soni’s films. Through Bhappie Soni, he met Shakti Samanta, Pramod Chakravarty and Manoj Kumar. Then he got N.N. Sippy’s film Gumnaam. He was at the top of his acting career in the ’70s.