Vishnuvardhan

Vishnuvardhan

Acting 1950-09-18 Mysore, Karnataka, India

Sampath Kumar (18 September 1950 – 30 December 2009), known by his stage name Vishnuvardhan, was an Indian actor who worked predominantly in Kannada cinema besides also having sporadically appeared in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam language films. Vishnuvardhan has a prolific career spanning over four decades, during which he has acted in more than 220 films. A popular cultural icon of Karnataka, and holds the status of a matinée idol among the Kannada diaspora. He is popularly called as Sahasa Simha, Dada and The Angry Young Man of Kannada Cinema. Vishnuvardhan's contributions to Kannada cinema have been praised by his contemporaries in the Indian film industry. The Government of Karnataka honoured him with the highest civilian awards of Karnataka State, the Karnataka Ratna Award in 2025, Rajyothsava Prashasthi in 1990 and the Dr. Rajkumar Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 for his contributions to Kannada cinema. He was called The Phoenix of Indian Cinema. In 2008, a poll conducted by CNN-IBN listed Vishnuvardhan as the most popular star in the Kannada film industry.

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2016 King Nagaraja (created with CGI)
2010 Dr. Vijay
2007 Hoovaiah
2007 Harish Raj
2006
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2005
2004 Sahukara Raja Mahendra Varma
2004 Self - Narrator (voice)
2004 Madhukeshawara Kadamba
2002 Narasimha Gowda and Chikka
2001 Wodeya
2001 Nanjunda
2000 Shankar/Ganesha (Dual Role)
2000 Soorappa
1999 Vishnu
1999 Sathyamurthy/Kanakamurthy (Dual Role)
1998 Major Vishwanath
1996
1996
1994 Inspector Mohan
1994
1994
1993 Pauli
1993 Vishnu
1993 Ajay Kumar
1992 Haridas I.P.S.
1991 Screenplay
1990 Shivu / Shankar
1989
1988 Vijay Kumar
1988 Daada
1987
1986 Amar
1986
1984 Vishnu
1984 Dr. Harish
1984
1984
1984 Ganesha
1984 Guest Appearance
1984 Rajesh
1983
1982 Prathap
1980 Prabhakar/ Ranga
1978 Dr. Nataraj
1978 Kittu
1978 Guest Appearance
1978
1977
1975 Mahesh aka Kalla
1973 Inspector Raju
1972 Ramachari
1971 credited as "Kumar"