Rangasthala Natulu

A Dasaratha Ramaiah

A Satyavathi

A Siva Parvathi

Aaakula Venkaiah

Aakula Appa Rao

Aakula Rangaa Kumari

Aalaa Gopala Swamy

Aamanchi Venkata Subramaniam(AVS)

Aaradhyula Koteswara Rao

Abburi Adi Narayana Sarma

Abburi Subba Rao

Abburi Vara Prasada Rao

Abburi Venkata Ramarao (AVR), Visahkapatnam.
                He served as Artist and Announcer to ALL INDIA RADIO for 30 years. In 1977, he has won the National Best actor for a social play.
He also acted in 15 - 20 films like "Sree Variki Premalakha", "Mudhamandharam", "Challenge", "Lorry Driver", "Papa Kosam",etc ...
He did his diploma in acting from Andhra University and he has been the producer for the stage play "Amma" which has swept all the competetions for that year in 1997. 
Contributed by : Sashikanth Abburi, Visakhapatnam, India, abburisashi@yahoo.com

Achanta Venkataratnam Naidu (Tulasi-Jalandhara" Fame)

Addanki Sreerama Murthy 
               He used to act as "Dharma Raju" in Pandava vudyoga vijayamulu drama and was very famous in this role & as "Harischandra" opposte Pasupuleti kannamba! Played "Dasaratha" role in the early Telugu film "Paaduka Pattabhishekam". 
Popularly known as "Addanki".
Contributed by : Satya.M. Madhavapeddi

Adigopula Sai Sekhar

Akki Venkateswarlu

Alapati Surya Prakasa Gupta

Anisetty Satyavathi

Annapoorna

Aradhyula Venkata Subba Rao

Aradhyula Venkateswara Rao

Atmakuri Rama Koteswara Rao

B Siva Kumar

B Valeswara Rao

B Veera Raju

B Vijaya Kumar

Bachchu Samba Siva Rao

Banda Kanakalingeswara Rao

Bejjam China Kotaiah

Bellamkonda Subba Rao 
                An Advocate in Narasa Rao Peta, Guntur Dt. He was famous in the role of "Krishna" in Pandava Vudyoga Vijayamaulu stage drama. Since, he used to play the role, preserving his natural big moustache, he used to be popularly referred as "Meesala Krishnudu"! 
Contributed by : Satya.M. Madhavapeddi

Betha Venkata Rao

Bhagavatula Rajagopala Rao : Late Sri Bhagavatula Rajagopala Rao was a wealthy landlord who owned and maintained Rama Vilasa Sabha of Tenali. He directed several stage plays including Prataparudreeyam, Roshanara, Kanyasulkam, Mayasabha and Nartanasala. He translated Shakespeare dramas into Telugu and wrote Nartanasala. Dr. Govindarajula Subba Rao, Madhavapeddi Venkataramaiah, Sthanam Narasimha Rao, Peddipatla Chalapati, Vangara Venkatasubbaiah, Narumanchi, Hulakki and other great actors worked for Rama Vilasa Sabha. In Rama Vilasa Sabha, Sthanam Narasimha Rao was a salaried employee and acted in female roles ¡§C Roshanara, Madhuravaani, Draupadi, etc. Sri Rajagopala Rao hails from Nandur near Ponnur in Guntur Dist. and was the first son of Sri Bhagavatula Sree Rama Sastry and Smt.Sundaramma. His family was originally from Kolluru near Tenali. Contributed by B. R. Sastry, Vancouver, Canada. 

Bhimavaram Lakshmaiah

Bindu Madhavi

Bitra Punnaiah

Boina Bhargavi

Bommaraju Lakshmi Narayana

Bommareddy Satyanarayana Reddy 
He is from Machavaram Vijayawada and played thousands of stage plays all over AP. Contributed by : Bommareddy Satyanarayana Reddy, Machavaram, Vijayawada, AP 

Bonepalli Venkateswara Rao

Burra Jaya Lakshmi

Burrabala Venkata Sai

BV Brahmaiah

B.V.Rama Rao

Ch L Narsu

Ch Narayana Murthy

Ch Siva Prasad

Challa Venkateswarlu

Chendu Bhaskar Rao

Chennam Subba Rao

Cherukumalli Singa Rao

Cherukupalli Rama Rao

Cheruvu Siva Rama Sastry : Born in 1903 in Mailavaram (grandparent's house) and was a native of Bapatla, Gunturdistrict. He is the beloved disciple of Belamkonda Subba Rao. He played with Bellamkonda Subba Rao, Adanki Sri Rama Murti, Pulipati Venkatesvarlu, Abburi and famous Sthanam Narasimha Rao. In 1930s he acted in silent movies with Lakshmi Rajyam and Suri Babu. From 1937 to 1947 he often gave shows in Bombay (Mumbai), Madras, Hyderabad and all over Andhra Pradesh together with these actors. Siva Rama Sastry played in Udyoga Vijayam (as Krishna), Paduka pattaabhishekam (as Bharata), Harischandra (as Harischandra), Bobbili yuddham (as Ranga Rao), Chandra Gupta (Siva Rama Sastry as Chandra Gupta and Stanam Narasimha Rao as Mura) and other. The people of Bapatla honoured him at the completion of his age of 60 years with a big ceremony together with the cultural minister of Andhra Pradesh Kala Venkata Rao as the functional president and Pasala Purna Chendra Rao the director of Vijayawada radio station, the speaker of the function. He died in 1974 in Bapatla at the age of 71 and survived in his four children.

Chikkala Sudhakar

Chilakapati Krishnamacharyulu

China Tirupati Kumari                                                                        Top

Chittoor V. Nagaiah

Chunduru Madhusudana Rao

CR Das

CR Mohan

D Sree Ramulu

D Srinivasa Dikshit

Daavuluri Rajeswara Rao

Dasaradha Rama Raju

Dasari Koti Ratnam

Dasari Raghava Rao

Devisetty Krishna Rao

Devisetty Nirmala

Dhulipala Sitha Rama Sastry. 
                A very great stage actor from Guntur. In the role of "Duryodhana", he was next only to the legendary Madhavapeddi Venkata Ramayya! He also joined telugu film field and played character roles in several films. Popularly known as "Dhulipala"! Contributed by :Satya.M. Madhavapeddi

Dilip Raja

Doppalapudi Samba Siva Rao

Dr D Chandram

Dr Mikkilineni Radha Krishna Murthy

Easwar Rao

Eemani Veera Brahmacahry

Eleswarapu Subramanya Sastry

G James

G Rama Devi

G Sailaja

G Subba Rao

Gaddam Nageswara Rao

Gannaboina Subbulu

Ganpisetty Venkateswara Rao

Gogineni Kesava Rao

Gonuguntla Prabhakar

Govindarajula Venkata Subba Rao

Govindu Devaiah

Gudipalli Satyanarayana

Gummadi Kutumba Rao

Gummadi Vimala Kumari

Gummdi Venkateswara Rao

Gundimeda Narasimha Rao

Gurra Subramanya Sastry

Guttula Usha Rani

Haridasu Samba Siva Rao

Hema Latha

Inkollu Venkata Ratnam


J Rama Mohan Rao

Jagan Kumar

Jagarlamoodi Lakshmi Narasimham

Jagga Rao

Jamuna

Jandhyala Venkata Sita Rama Sastry

Jasti Koteswara Rao

Jawahar Babu

Jaya Vani

JC Kennedy

Jeyamma                                                                                              Top

Josyula Rama Chandra Rao



K Aruna

K Hari Prasada Rao

K Kalpana

K Kondala Rao Naidu

K Prasad

K Srinivasa Rao

K Vijaya

K Vijaya Lakshmi

K Yoganand

Kaanchanamaala

Kaji Ahmed Hussain Khan

Kakinada Koteswara Rao

Kalaabandhu Baachu Achuta Ramaiah

Kalaavaachaspathi Kongara Jaggaiah

Kalidasu Koteswara Rao

Kalidasu Lakshmikantam

Kalyanam Raghu Ramaiah

Kalyani

Kanaparti Venkata Subba Rao

Kanchanamala

Kandukuri Bhyrava Murthy garu (1910 ?1983)

Late Shri Bhyrava Murthy garu was born in Eluru and settled in Kothagudem due to his employment with Singareni Collieries . He was active member and director with Collieries Employees Recreation (CER) Club and acted and directed several stage dramas and one act plays including Kanyasulkam, Alluri Seetharama Raju, Krishna Rayabaram and his one act play ¡°Paga?written by Gollapudi Maruthi Rao garu won a couple of prizes during the competitions. He was appreciated by the Singareni Collieries management and was honored for his Girisam role in Kanyasulkam. With his association with Late Banda Kanakalingeshwar Rao garu and Late Nanduri Subbarao garu, a couple of dramas written and directed by him pertaining to Singareni collieries Karmikulu were broadcasted in All India Radio Vijayawada Karmikula Karyakramam. Contributed by : Kandukuri Mallikarjuna Raja, Sudan 

Kandula Raja Rao

Kannamba

Kanneganti Madhu

Kanneganti Nasarayya

Kanneganti Radha

Kanneganti Sita Kumari

Karumuri Sita Ramaiah

Kasturi Narasimha Rao

Katari Radhakrishna Murthy (R.K.Katari) : He is a Drama artist, who one the Best actor award in All India Civil services Drama Competetions held in Tripura. For more details, you can contact him in the address given below: Katari Radha Krishna Murthy, Flat no 111, Block 1, SMR Metropolis, Miyapur, Hyderabad - 500049, Tel : 040 23046285.

Kavulu Bhagavan Das

Kavuri Hema Chandra Sarma

Kavuri Sri Rama Murthy

Khemchand Chandana

KL Vanaja

Kode Radha Krishna Murthy

Koganti Samba Siva Rao

Kokilaamani

Kolakaluri Rama Sesha Varma

Kolla Hanumanta Rao

Kommareddi Prasada Reddy

Konatham Venkata Srinivasa Rao

Kondapaneni Satyanarayana

Kongara Jaggaiah

Koochibatla Siva Rama Krishnaiah

Kosuru Punnaiah

Krishna Veni

KSR Krishna Murthy

KST Sai

Kumpatla SubbaRao

Kuppa Suryanarayana


Lakkaraju Vijaya Gopala Rao

Lakshmi Rajyam

Lakshmi Tulasi                                                                                    Top

Lanka Satyanarayana

Lila

Lolla Suryanarayana

M Aadi Lakshmi

M Anjaneyulu

M Mallikarjuna Rao

M R Krishna

M Rajesh Babu

M Venkata Swamy Naidu

Maadiraju Ranga Rao

Maavillapalli Koteswara Rao

Maddala Rama Rao(Raavan Fame)

Maddali Durgachary

Maddali Sesha Giri Rao

Maddela Panchanadam

Maddela Raja Kumari

Madhavapeddi Satyam 
                Madhavapeddi Satyam was also born in Brahmana Koduru (v), guntur dt to Madhavapeddi Lakshmi Narasayya and Sundaramma, in the 3rd decade of 20th century. He had a rich and melodius voice and was a recognised singer, even from childhood! He came to limelight on the Telugu Stage, as a member of the famous Malladi Suryanarayana drama trupe, for his role as"Nakshathraka" in "Harischandra" drama. His talent was recognised by Late Chakrapani who took him to Madras to act in the film "Shavukaru", produced by him and Nagi Reddy under the newly founded banner "Vijaya pictures". Though he acted in this and a few other telugu films, essentially being a talented singer, he attracted the attention of famous cine music directors, such as S. rajeswara rao, Ghantasala venkateswara rao and many others, who utilised him as a cine play back singer. He is reported to have sung nearly 7000 songs in films, some o0f which are in other indian languages too!
He lent his voice particularly to S.V. Ranga Rao and Relangi Venkata Ramayya, in most of their films. He was specially famous for singing telugu stanzas in Mythological films. He has earned unprecedented name and fame, particularly for the song "Vivaha Bhojanammu" in the film "Maya Bazaar", produced by Vijaya Film pictures! Satyam passed away in Dec 2000, leaving a void in telugu film industry, that is hard to fill up!
Contributed by : Satya.M. Madhavapeddi.


Madhavapeddi Venkata Ramaiah
                Popularly known as "Madhavapeddi", Madhavapeddi Vekata Ramayya, was born to Koteswara Swamy and Venemma, in Brahmana Koduru (v), Ponnur Mandalam in Guntur Dt, during the last decade of 19th century. Sri Madhavapeddi Venkata Ramayya was acclaimed as one of the alltime stalwarts of the telugu stage! He was a contemporary of such great actors as, Addanki srirama murthy, Bellamkonda subba Rao, Pulipati venkateswarlu and was particularly famous for the role of Duryodhana, in "Pandava Udyoga Vijayamulu" stage drama, penned by the immortal Thirupathi Venkata Kavulu. He was also well known in the role of Prataparudrudu, in the stage drama, "Prataparudriyam" in which he and Bellary Raghavacharyulu, another of the alltime stalwarts of the telugu Stage, acting in the role of Yugandhara, used to excel! It is said that both these stalwarts, facing each other on the stage, used to skip delivery of some written dialougues, while conveying their meaning through their wonderful facial expression and body language, much to the dismay and delight of the knowledgeble viewers! 
After active stage career for over two decades, Madhavapeddi joined telugu film industry in its early phase and acted as "Nala" in the film "Chitra Naleeyam", "Sisupala" in "Draupadi Mana Samrakshanam" and in some other early films of Telugu screen, many of which were produced at Calcutta and Bombay, since the industry was not yet born in Madras! Madhavapeddi was known for his noblity and philanthropy and spent his earnings to help many in dire need! Not being blessed with own children, he adopted a poor muslim boy and brought him up!
Contributed by : Satya.M. Madhavapeddi.

Madhuragaana Kalaanidhi Vemparla Anjaneyulu

Maharshi Raghava

Makkapati Krishna Mohan

Malathi

Malladi Govinda Sastry

Malladi Krishna Prasad

Malladi Suryanarayana

Mancha Narayana

Mandalapu Indira

Mandey Shyam Kumar

Manikonda Subba Rao

Manne Srinivasa Rao ,BTech (Agri. Engg.)
Address : C/o Teja Hospital, Repalle,Tel:08648222289, 9440241271
Faculty: Actor, Director, Writer, Critic, Parishad Organiser.
Awardlu: 1. "NATYA SRI" from Allahabad Natya Sangh, Allahabad.
2. "NATYA BHUSHAN" from Utkal Yuva Samskritika Sangh, Cuttack.
3. "VISISTA VYAKTHI" from Kala Jagathi (Cultural Magazine).
4. "RANGASTHALA RATNA" from Gopi Krishna Nataka Kala Parishad, Nutalapadu modalagunavi. 

Marreddi Venkata Ramana Reddy

Marri Appa Rao

Marturi Subbulu

Master Kalyani

MD Prasad

Meena Kumari

Melam Chandra Prasad

Modukuri Subba Rao

Mopatti Rama Rao

MP Kanneswara Rao

Mudigonda Linga Murthy

Mukkamala Dattu

Mukkamala Krishna Murthy
                An advocate in Guntur. Famous as stage actor from student days.
Used to excel in the role of "Bussi" in"Bobbili Yuddham", stage play. Joined telugu film field and played a number of character roles. Popularly, known as "Mukkamala"!. 
Contributed by : Satya.M. Madhavapeddi

Mukkamala Raghavaiah

Mulugu Veera Bhadra Rao

Munagaala Lakshmi Jyoti

Munagapati Koteswara Rao

Munipalli Suseela

Munipalli Veeraiah

Murthy Parvathi

Muthineni Lakshmi                                        Top



Nagumani

Nalluri Lakshmi Rajyam

Nandiraju Narayana Murthy

Nanduri Jayaraj

Nanduri Seshachary

Nanduri Subba Rao (Radio annayya) : Nanduri Subba Rao garu (1932-2001) was famous Radio, stage artist, play wright, Producer in All India Radio, Vijayawada since 1960 to 1990. Famous for his lead role in Ganapathi play (written by Chilakamarthi Lakshmi Narasimham Pantulu). Also acted in and produced several hundreds of dramas from Akasavani, Vijayawada Kendra. Well known for his "Bavagari Kaburlu" and " Radio Bala Annayya". Receipient of National Awards for 2 times from I & B Ministry, Govt. of India. Acted in some telugu movies like "O Sita Katha", " Eduruleni Manishi", "Ananda Bhairavi" etc. Contributed by,Sunitha on 30.11.07 by email

Naralasetty Samba Siva Rao

Narla Koteswara Rao

Natasekhara Krishna

Neelam Mallaiah

Nelloori Satyanarayana

Nethi Parasurama Sarma

Nimmagadda Venkateswarlu

Nimmaraju SRA Prasad

Nutakki Subba Rao

Oorvasi Sarada

P Anjaneya Sarma

P Linga Rao

P Pandu Ranga Rao

P Pichaiah Naidu

P Siva Parvathi

P Sudarsanam

Paada Rangaiah

Paarupalli Satyanarayana

Padma

Padmaja Prabhakar

Padmasri Sthaanam Narasimha Rao

Pagadala Peda Tirupati Kumari

Pagadala Rama Rao

Pagadala Shyam Sunder

Paladugu Radha Krishna Murthy

Pamulpati Chenchu Rama Rao

Panduri Kutumba Rao

Parupalli Subba Rao

Pasupuleti Kannamba
                Acclaimed as the Best Stage Character Actress in those days (1930's & 40's). She was famous in the Roles "Chandramathi, Kaikeyi, Nayakuralu etc". Joined Telugu Cine Field and became equally famous!
Contributed by : Satya.M. Madhavapeddi

Pathuri Ramakrishna Sasthri

Patnala Sanari Viswanatha Chary

Paturi Rama Krishna Murthy

Paturi Sree Rama Sastry

Peddibotla Chalapati

Peesapati Narasimha Murthy

Peruri Murali Mohan

Pillalamarri Sundrara Ramaiah

Pinnaboina Krishna Murthy

Podhili Krishna Murthy

Poornima

Pothukuchi Lakshmi Narasimha Murthy

Potukuchi Sankara Sastry

Prabha

Pratti Ramaiah

Pratti Surya Narayana

Pulapati Venkateswarlu

Pulipaka Venkatappaiah                                                                     Top

Pulipati Lakshmi Narayana

Pushpagiri Shankar

Puttugunta Venkata Subba Rao

Puvvula Koti Veeraiah

Puvvula Soori Babu


R Koteswara Rao Naidu

Raavi Venkata Subba Rao

Raavinutala Sree Rama Murhty

Raavipati Sree Rama Chandra Murthy

Raja Kumari (Bhashabi)

Raja Sivanand

Rajya Lakshmi

Raktakaneeru Nagabhushanam

Raktakaneeru Sita

RVR Acharya

Sabaranjani

Sailaja

Sampath( Anjaneya Fame)

Shanmukhi Anjaneya Raju

Sheik Abdul Sattar

Sheik Abdullah

Sheik Mohammed

Shrimadajjada Adibhotla Narayana Dasgaru (Hari Kadha Pithamaha)

Sistla Sakshi Somayajulu

Siva Parvathi

Siva Rathna Kumari

SP Lakshmana Swamy

Sree Ranjani

Sri Madabhushi Srinivasacharyulu

Sthanam Narasimha Rao

Sujata

Susarla Kameswara Sarma

SV Ananda Rao

Swarajya Laksmi

T Manohar

T Rama Krishna Sastry

T Sree Ramulu

Taalluri Raghavendra Rao

Tadanki Seshamamba

Tadiboina Sivaji

Tadikonda Vijaya Kumari

Tangirala Anjaneyulu

Tanneru Narayana Rao

Tara Bai

Tarani

Teegala Sesha Rao

Tenali Sakuntala

Tenali Suseela

Thondapu Rami Reddy: A great stage actor from kakinada.He had rich melodious voice and was a recognised singer, even from his childhood. Used to excel in all roles. Ramayya was acclaimed as one of the all time STAR & LEGEND of the telugu stage. His rendering of verses was very much acclaimed and appreciated for clarity and heart-touching recitation. He won many awards too. 

Tirunagara Ramanjaneyulu

Toomati Ratna Gopal

Tota Krisha Rao

TSR Murthy

Tumuluri Subramaniam

Turaga Pundarikakshaiah                                                                   Top

TV Subba Rao

TVR Samba Siva Rao

Ubba Ankaiah
                Gana Gandharva, Gana Kousthubhalankara, Ganabhinaya Kalanidhi, Swarna kiriti etc. Basically, he hails from Prakasam Dt, and settled in Hyderabad. He acted as Sri Krishna, Narada, Bhakta Ramdas, Anjaneya, Dharmaraju etc. Right now, he is special advisor to TTD. He won many awards too. Even now we can hear his metallic voice from AIR.
Contributed by : RamaKoteshwarRao on 7th Dec 2002

Uppaala Nancharayya

Uppala Venkata Rathaiah

Uppaluri Sitaramaiah



V Basaveswara Rao

V Subramanyam

Vaali Subba Rao

Valiveti Srimannarayana

Valluri Venkata Subba Rao

Valluri Venkta Ramaiah Chowdari

Vangara Venkat Subbaiah

Vangaveeti Yagna Narayana Sarma

Vedala Venktappalacharya

Veerisetty Nageswara Rao

Veerisetty Raghu Ramaiah

Vejendla Koteswara Rao

Vejendla Samba Siva Rao

Vempati Gangadhara Rao Chowdary

Vemuri Gaggaiah

Vemuri Radha Krishna Murthy

Vemuri Ramaiah

Vemuri Sita Rama Sastry

Venigalla Janaki Devi

Vinnakota Krishna Murthy

VS Vijaya Lakshmi

Yadavalli Suryanarayana
                Peru gaanchina rangastula natule kaaka, telugu cinemala lone motta modati vaatilo eeyana natinchaaru.

Yadlapalli Kutumba Rao

Yeddu Sudarsana Rao

Yeleswarapu Kutumba Sastry