Satyajit Ray

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1921-05-02 (71 years old)

Deathday

1992-04-23

Place of Birth

Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]

Satyajit Ray

Biography

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was a Bengali Indian filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves (1948) during a visit to London. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic...

Acting

2021

1999

Ray: Life and Work of Satyajit Ray

as Self (archive footage)

1985

1971

Sikkim

as Narrator (voice)

1972

The Inner Eye

as Narrator (voice)

1998

The Tree

as Self (archive footage)

2019

Feluda: 50 Years of Ray's Detective

as Self (archival footage)

1961

Rabindranath Tagore

as Narrator (voice)

Production

1958

The Music Room

as Director

1959

Apur Sansar

as Director

1959

Apur Sansar

as Screenplay

1959

Apur Sansar

as Producer

1956

Aparajito

as Director

1956

Aparajito

as Screenplay

1956

Aparajito

as Producer

2021

Chonchu

as Story

1955

Pather Panchali

as Director

1955

Pather Panchali

as Screenplay

1955

Pather Panchali

as Producer

1964

Charulata

as Director

1964

Charulata

as Screenplay

1991

The Stranger

as Director

1991

The Stranger

as Screenplay

1991

The Stranger

as Producer

1991

The Stranger

as Original Music Composer

1985

1961

Three Daughters

as Director

1960

Devi

as Director

1960

Devi

as Screenplay

1963

The Big City

as Director

1971

Company Limited

as Director

1977

2022

2000

1962

The Expedition

as Director

1976

The Middleman

as Director

1966

The Hero

as Director

1966

The Hero

as Writer

1973

Distant Thunder

as Director

1964

Charulata

as Original Music Composer

1969

The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha

as Original Music Composer

1961

1965

The Coward

as Director

1962

Kanchenjungha

as Director

1990

1965

Two

as Director

1974

1979

The Elephant God

as Director

1965

The Holy Man

as Director

1965

The Holy Man

as Screenplay

1996

2003

2010

1987

Sukumar Ray

as Director

1987

Sukumar Ray

as Screenplay

2022

Hatyapuri

as Writer

1970

The Adversary

as Director

2008

1971

Sikkim

as Director

1981

The Deliverance

as Director

1981

Pikoo

as Director

1960

Devi

as Producer

1976

Bala

as Director

1972

The Inner Eye

as Director

1972

The Inner Eye

as Writer

1958

1965

Shakespeare-Wallah

as Original Music Composer

1966

The Hero

as Original Music Composer

1963

The Big City

as Original Music Composer

1970

Baksa Badal

as Original Music Composer

1962

Kanchenjungha

as Original Music Composer

1963

The Big City

as Screenplay

1965

Two

as Original Music Composer

1961

Three Daughters

as Screenplay

1962

Kanchenjungha

as Producer

1962

1962

Kanchenjungha

as Screenplay

1967

Chiriyakhana

as Director

1962

The Expedition

as Screenplay

-

Captain Spark

as Creator

1961

Rabindranath Tagore

as Screenplay

2021

Class Friend

as Writer

1977

The Chess Players

as Screenplay

2023

1963

1958

The Philosopher's Stone

as Original Music Composer

1958

The Music Room

as Producer

1958

The Music Room

as Screenplay

1961

The Lost Jewels

as Director

1991

The Stranger

as Story

1987

Sukumar Ray

as Original Music Composer

1990

The Branches of the Tree

as Original Music Composer

1992

Goopy Bagha Feere Elo

as Original Music Composer

1996

Baksho Rahashya

as Original Music Composer

1990

1990

1990

An Enemy of the People

as Original Music Composer

1985

1985

The Home and the World

as Original Music Composer

1981

Pikoo

as Writer

1981

The Deliverance

as Screenplay

1981

The Deliverance

as Original Music Composer

2016

1970

Days and Nights in the Forest

as Original Music Composer

1996

1951

The River

as Assistant Director

1976

The Middleman

as Screenplay

1971

Company Limited

as Screenplay

1970

The Adversary

as Screenplay

1965

The Coward

as Screenplay

1974

1979

1979

The Elephant God

as Screenplay

1971

Sikkim

as Writer

2023

Master Anshuman

as Original Story

-

The Apu Trilogy

as Director

-

The Apu Trilogy

as Screenplay

-

The Apu Trilogy

as Producer

-

1961

1961

The Lost Jewels

as Original Music Composer

1961

The Lost Jewels

as Producer

1983

Phatik Chand

as Screenplay

1983

Phatik Chand

as Original Story

1983

Phatik Chand

as Music

1996

Jato Kando Kathmandute

as Original Story

1999

1998

Jahangirer Swarnamudra

as Original Story

1996

Sheyal Debota Rahasya

as Original Story

1999

Golapi Mukta Rahasya

as Original Music Composer

1999

1999

Ghurghutiar Ghotona

as Original Story

1999

Ambar Sen Antordhan Rahasyo

as Original Music Composer

2024

1965

Two

as Writer

1967

Chiriyakhana

as Screenplay

1977

1970

Baksa Badal

as Screenplay

2015

Ahalya

as Writer

2014

Chaar

as Story

2017

Anukul

as Novel

2014

2016

1994

Uttoran

as Writer

1976

Bala

as Screenplay

1973

Distant Thunder

as Screenplay

1973

Distant Thunder

as Original Music Composer

1977

The Chess Players

as Original Music Composer

1974

The Golden Fortress

as Original Music Composer

1980

The Kingdom of Diamonds

as Original Music Composer

1970

The Adversary

as Original Music Composer

1965

The Holy Man

as Original Music Composer

1961

Three Daughters

as Original Music Composer

1967

Chiriyakhana

as Original Music Composer

1971

Sikkim

as Original Music Composer

1971

Company Limited

as Original Music Composer

1976

The Middleman

as Original Music Composer

1962

The Expedition

as Original Music Composer

1965

The Coward

as Original Music Composer

1979

The Elephant God

as Original Music Composer

1992

1996

Bosepukure Khunkharapi

as Original Story

2020

The Machine

as Story

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