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David
Born David Abraham Cheulkar
1908
Died 1981
Years active 1941-1981

David Abraham Cheulkar (1908 - 1981), popularly known as David was a Jewish-Indian Hindi-language film actor, who started his film career with 1941 film Naya Sansar and went on to act in over 110 films.

He was actively associated with IPTA and hence was part of many Khwaja Ahmad Abbas's films, including, Pardesi, Shehar Aur Sapna, Munaa and Char Dil Char Raahein. He was a member of Mumbai's Bene Israel community.

Strongly associated with friendly uncle roles, David is best known for his portrayal of John Chacha in the 1954 hit Boot Polish, directed by Prakash Arora for which he won the 1955 Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award. The song "Nanhe Munne Bachche" from the film, picturized with him became a memorable song of that era. He never married and died on 28 December 1981 in Toronto, Canada.

Selected filmography

External links

Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award
1955-1960

David (1955) · Abhi Bhattacharya (1956) · Motilal (1957) · Raj Mehra (1958) · Johnny Walker (1959) · Manmohan Krishna (1960)
1961-1980

Motilal (1961) · Nana Palsikar (1962) · Mehmood (1963) · Raaj Kumar (1964) · Nana Palsikar (1965) · Raaj Kumar (1966) · Ashok Kumar (1967) · Pran (1968) · Sanjeev Kumar (1969) · Pran (1970) · Feroz Khan (1971) · Amitabh Bachchan (1972) · Pran (1973) · Amitabh Bachchan (1974) · Vinod Khanna (1975) · Shashi Kapoor (1976) · Prem Chopra (1977) · Shreeram Lagoo (1978) · Saeed Jaffrey (1979) · Amjad Khan (1980)
1981-2000

Om Puri (1981) · Amjad Khan (1982) · Shammi Kapoor (1983) · Sadashiv Amrapurkar (1984) · Anil Kapoor (1985) · Amrish Puri (1986) · no award (1987) · no award (1988) · Anupam Kher (1989)  · Nana Patekar (1990) · Mithun Chakraborty (1991) · Danny Denzongpa (1992) · Danny Denzongpa (1993) · Sunny Deol (1994) · Jackie Shroff (1995) · Jackie Shroff (1996) · Amrish Puri (1997) · Amrish Puri (1998) · Salman Khan (1999) · Anil Kapoor (2000)
2001-present

Amitabh Bachchan (2001) · Akshaye Khanna (2002) · Vivek Oberoi (2003) · Saif Ali Khan (2004) · Abhishek Bachchan (2005) · Abhishek Bachchan (2006) · Abhishek Bachchan (2007) · Irrfan Khan (2008) · Arjun Rampal (2009)







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